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sludge

noun

ˈsləj

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as in mud

soft wet earth after a day of heavy rain, the fairgrounds had turned into pure sludge

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something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental I can't bring myself to read that sludge

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Recent Examples of sludge People have tried using machines, but the cold turns oil to sludge, and when machines fall through ice, they can’t be pulled out. —

Ken Harbaugh, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026 Ask what went into bagged or bulk compost, and favor products made from yard waste, leaves, or clean food scraps over those blended with municipal solid waste or sewage sludge. —

Dr. Avishesh Neupane, Hartford Courant, 7 Feb. 2026 The way his Liverpool Scouse accent sludges across the track with a kind of soccer hooligan attitude could convert the most red-blooded NFL fan into a Champions League lifer. —

Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Feb. 2026 For decades, that sludge was treated as hazardous waste and hauled to landfills. —

Alan Collins, The Conversation, 21 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sludge

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Other highlights include a wellness area with a sauna and gym, a diving room, a mud room, and a sprawling beach club of nearly 2,200 square feet.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2026
Korea, in particular, lived in the American imagination mostly as grainy Movietone war footage—mud, sandbags, Marines—certainly not as a place that might produce a hit record, starlets, or anything resembling glamour.

— Margaret Heidenry, Vanity Fair, 24 Feb. 2026