Thesaurus results for SLOSHES

sloshes

verb

present tense third-person singular of slosh

as in splashes

to move with a splashing motion the baby gurgled contentedly as the water sloshed gently around him in the bathtub

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as in slops

to cause (something liquid or mushy) to move along in sheets while painting the Windsor chair, he carelessly sloshed paint all over the adjacent wall

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Recent Examples of sloshes If some oil sloshes off a ship or leaks out of a pipeline, what’s the difference? —

Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 My experience of being a new mum is there’s another layer of the crap that doesn’t serve you that just sloshes off. —

Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 16 Feb. 2026

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In Literature and Painting Playset, 2025, a Cartman-like figure wearing a beret splashes daubs of paint on the screen while a female figure in pilgrim dress delivers a long, disjointed monologue patched together by Kokopeli from Quora posts, art history texts, and other online detritus.

— Theo Belci, Artforum, 2 June 2026
As more water splashes the plant, the spores move upward to infect healthy leaves higher on the rose.

— Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2026