How to Use slime in a Sentence
- Green slime covers the surface of the pond.
- She thinks men are slime.
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Check plants at night for tell-tale slime trails.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
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Slugs produce slime and use it to move.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 22 Apr. 2026
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Could snail slime and salmon sperm be the next big things in skincare?
—Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
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The slime cannon checks all three of these boxes.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
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Both also leave behind shiny slime trails on your plants.
—Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 24 June 2026
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Light pink slime was found inside the ice machine.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado may 15, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2026
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The three compartment sink had dark slime buildup on a pipe.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 27 Feb. 2026
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To do this, the pair used a Minecraft creature known as a slime.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 May 2026
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Pink and brown slime residue build up was found inside the ice machine.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado may 1, Sacbee.com, 1 May 2026
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The ice machine had slime buildup inside.
—Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado updated January 23, Sacbee.com, 23 Jan. 2026
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Cutting the okra in half lengthwise can also cut down on slime.
—Jasmine Smith, Southern Living, 30 July 2023
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Even better, each slime egg comes with a surprise toy inside.
—Sharon Brandwein, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
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Most of the signs were brandished with Nickelodeon’s green slime.
—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 26 Aug. 2022
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Sometimes, the answer is slime.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2025
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My two-year-old watches slime videos with more views than the Oscars.
—Vulture, 4 Mar. 2023
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But remember, where there is okra, there will always be some slime.
—Antara Sinha, Bon Appétit, 30 Sep. 2023
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Beach crafts include sand art, parakeet slime and sugar scrubs.
—Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 15 May 2023
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Full rain gear, including a hat, will keep fish slime and water out of your hair.
—John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 26 June 2021
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There might as well have been slime falling from the clouds for the amount of panic and closures.
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 10 Feb. 2026
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Every week many of them scrub the slime off the bottoms of the boats just to keep them from slowing down.
—Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 1 July 2021
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There are also a ton of festive mix-ins so kids can customize their slimes.
—Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 30 Jan. 2026
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This is exactly how a (slime) puppy would sit in front of daddy.
—Megh Wright, Vulture, 7 Dec. 2021
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Mook opened a freezer and pulled out a Ziploc plastic bag of icy green slime.
—Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 1 May 2022
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Sun, salt, and slime cause the material in fishing line to break down.
—Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
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Your kids will love making their own slime in red watermelon and mint scents with this set of two.
—Christina Montoya Fiedler, Woman's Day, 29 Dec. 2022
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The slime cannon does exactly that.
—Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
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In the Minecraft case, that means sending even more slimes and zoglins into battle.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 25 May 2026
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Smell, look, and texture matter more than dates—off odors, mold, or slime are the true signs to discard food.
—Bridget Shirvell, Martha Stewart, 8 Jan. 2026
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These growths are what attracted Webb to slime molds in the first place.
—Leslie Nemo, Scientific American, 6 Jan. 2022
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When the first trailer for the film went viral this year, trolls came out of their caves and slimed it.
—Brett Weiss, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
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Sometimes, slugs would slime their way from behind the baseboards.
—Literary Hub, 20 Feb. 2026
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Play a series of games in time before the clock runs out or you get slimed or splattered with paint.
—Alexis Clinton, Axios, 2 Jan. 2025
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The media has been in training—and often paid—to slime me and to slander me for years.
—Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 Feb. 2018
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That means that even if those glands need a few weeks to refill, the rest of the hagfish's body is still ready to slime.
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2018
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Either way, sliming needs to be included in more awards shows.
—Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2023
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The knife is designed to be slimed with blood and guts, with aggressive jimping on the spine.
—T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
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Price initially assumed the cast would hate getting slimed, but he was quickly proven wrong.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2024
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How did the swamp slime up our laws and governance before the government even existed?
—Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 26 Oct. 2021
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And, naturally, the Left failed our soldiers as well, sliming them as baby-killers and such.
—Ray Nothstine, National Review, 11 Nov. 2023
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Sam spots a slug sliming its way along a bed of moist leaves and points it out to her father—even these yucky creatures can look like miniature miracles.
—Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 9 Aug. 2024
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The yogurt frosting turns to slime in your fingers and the pumpkin spice has an astringent aftertaste.
—Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 27 Sep. 2022
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On Sunday, the CBS team will be ready and armed should players or coaches agree to slime.
—Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2022
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There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.
—Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
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The mother-daughter duo is also seen playing pool, walking down a hallway and getting slimed together.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 31 Jan. 2025
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Instead, in a playoff game that featured a kids-centric broadcast on Nickelodeon, the Bears got slimed.
—Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
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Even on its best day, disclosure mostly serves up cheap ammunition for partisans to slime their opponents.
—Bradley A. Smith, National Review, 9 Aug. 2019
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Obviously, celebrities always seem really game to get slimed.
—Kimberly Nordyke, HollywoodReporter, 18 June 2025
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Parents, of course, will smile more sincerely about gifts that have some educational value — or won't slime the carpets or cause some other catastrophic mess.
—Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 18 Nov. 2019
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This time, the mysterious threat appears to be an attack of extraterrestrial cow patties, enormous heaps of foul-smelling gunk that fall out of the sky to slime the characters at random.
—Justin Chang, latimes.com, 15 June 2018
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Every character gets metaphorically slimed with backstage greasepaint.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 4 July 2024
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The excursion included lots of roller coasters, slime green suckers, and Disney's famous churros—an ideal Disney experience.
—Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 18 Jan. 2022
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Parker could be seen holding a JW Anderson pigeon clutch from season 2 while Davis was dressed in a sliming black ensemble with a pink satin bow and a white peter pan collar.
—Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 26 Mar. 2024
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Its Club Nick kids club is a supervised program for children ages four to 12, and non-motorized water sports and the opportunity to get slimed (the ultimate Nickelodeon honor) will keep everyone smiling.
—Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
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