How to Use slash-and-burn in a Sentence

slash-and-burn

adjective

• Even after a year of slash-and-burn, Trump is not done.
  — Lara Williams, Twin Cities, 22 Jan. 2026
• Here and there, a plume of smoke rose up from a field; slash-and-burn farming, locally known as tavy, is still practiced here.
  — Chris Schalkx, Vogue, 30 Sep. 2025
• The slash-and-burn approach to funding academic research counters that goal.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2025
• In the Mediterranean region, forests were gradually cleared away by a combination of slash-and-burn agriculture and grazing.
  — Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026
• That stark reality forced both sides to wage slash-and-burn propaganda campaigns designed to sow doubt and disinformation among their enemies.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Nov. 2025
• Many of the dispossessed took to the woods and subsisted by slash-and-burn tillage, while others immigrated to Manchuria and Japan in search of jobs; the majority of Korean residents now in those areas are their descendants.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026
• Last spring, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency employed slash-and-burn tactics to bring federal agencies to heel, local farm service centers in Kansas were hit especially hard.
  — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026