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as in mud
soft wet earth he paused in front of the doorway to wipe the slush off of his boots before going inside

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as in corn
something (as a work of literature or music) that is too sentimental a musical that has been reviled as pure slush by the New York critics

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as in cheese
that which is of low quality or worth discovered that slush is what publishers want, so that's exactly what she'll write didn't want to put in the effort to produce anything better than slush

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verb

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Recent Examples of slush
Noun
Kevin Nye attended the Juneau Trump rally, where vehicles, some decked with U.S. flags or banners supporting Trump, lined up Sunday to parade through town as the streets turned to slush from the snow and rain. Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Nov. 2020 When the bathrooms began flooding, the manager decided the night was canceled, and fans begrudgingly slushed their way out. Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
Verb
Lower snow totals are anticipated south of this streak of heavier snow: Chicago could end up with less than an inch of slush while Detroit sees an inch. Mary Gilbert, CNN, 7 Feb. 2025 On a snowy Thursday night, the 75th annual Berlin Film Festival launched with some heat — thanks to fiery speeches about politics — as film executives, European buyers and movie stars trekked through the slush to celebrate cinema. Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for slush
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slush
Noun
  • In the first images of Read since her second trial, Fox News Digital exclusively captured the 45-year-old wheeling a garbage bin outside her Boston hotel.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 21 June 2025
  • Seal garbage tightly in bags, and rinse out bottles and cans before placing in recycling bins.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The crews used an excavator to lift the uninjured Dancer out of the mud, officials said.
    Paloma Chavez, Miami Herald, 23 June 2025
  • Kong pounds and punches his way through materials and crawls through mud to uncover collectibles.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • There will be entertainment with DJ and games, face painting and corn hole along with food vendors.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
  • Diverting corn from grocery stores to gas tanks pushes up commodity prices—which, in turn, encourages farmers to convert forests and marshes into cropland.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Hit a homerun at your celebration with these hearty seasoned beef hamburgers studded with cheddar cheese, onions, and roasted poblano peppers.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 26 June 2025
  • Wallace commented on Krakow and Rosenbaum’s post, adding wine and cheese emojis.
    Lauren Harvey, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Verb
  • Videos appears to show an agent taking out a red bottle and spraying it at Hipolito within inches of his eyes, and Hipolito swiping back.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
  • Shotcrete is concrete sprayed at high velocity onto a surface.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • Use it to find and retrieve stray nuts or bolts in any crevice.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Without that pollination, almond trees produce only 200 pounds of nuts per acre.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Using more sludge and less slag in their recipe, researchers were able to create a material that's stronger than even today's enhanced cements and highly resistant to corrosion by acid.
    Michael Franco, New Atlas, 9 June 2025
  • The film careens between a dreary sludge of despair and eventual heart-palpitating nightmare, Grace caught in a mercurial storm of her own moods without ballast and unable to be understood by those around her.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Who wouldn’t want content that’s relevant to their unique interests instead of a mess of irrelevant junk?
    Andrew Luttrell, Time, 24 June 2025
  • Every doctor who has pushed junk science on vulnerable kids should be held responsible.
    Kristen Waggoner, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025

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“Slush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slush. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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