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Example sentences for "slash"

Lexicographically close words:
slape; slapped; slapper; slapping; slaps; slashed; slashers; slashes; slashing; slashings
  1. The colonists were ordered not to make or buy any slashed clothes, except those with one slash in each sleeve and another slash in the back.

  2. Scale and slash the fish from head to tail; lard it with the flesh of eels rolled up in sweet-herbs and seasoning; fill it with fish and forced meat.

  3. If a brim is to be made more flat or flaring, slash and add V-shaped pieces of buckram.

  4. Allow one-half inch inside of wire and slash every half inch out to headsize wire.

  5. If it is to droop or roll, slash the brim from the outer edge to the headsize wire and lap one-quarter of an inch at the edge.

  6. Cut velvet out inside of headsize wire, leaving a half inch to slash and turn up with the buckram.

  7. Of course a brim may be changed by adding a slash or two in the buckram, or by inserting a V shape to give more flare, but the fewer seams the better for the hat frame.

  8. Cut a small circle of buckram, slash in three equally distant places from the outer edge to within one-eighth of an inch of the center.

  9. To make the brim droop, slash the pattern from the edge to the headsize wire in four different places equally distant.

  10. They treated Cutler with a certain solemn attention, and pointed out that he had got a slight slash on the hand.

  11. Montano also had his cutlass unsheathed, and Muscari, without further speech, sent a slash at his head which he was compelled to catch and parry.

  12. A few weeks ago (January, 1922) the New Haven announced another extensive slash in its passenger-train service.

  13. It was while helping her over the hard places, she leaning on his arm, clasping his fingers for a better spring over a wind-slash or slippery rock that the currents of their lives flowed together.

  14. It will be your ambition to keep a good cellar, be known as a good dancer, to occasionally slash an officer or two in duels, and to leave your papers and periodicals uncut.

  15. The woman at the window saw Pushkin fiercely slash off the heads of the asters at his feet.

  16. Slash away until I say enough; fifty lashes for me, fifty for Junker Jevgen.

  17. If you slash my face I'll shoot you dead.

  18. And yet a few moments later he had defended his helpless master from that same wolf pack--and in defending him with the devotion of the dog, he had ripped with the peculiar flank-slash that is the death thrust of the wolf.

  19. Why, it's like a slash of light across a mountain-pool!

  20. These words which they address to Busao, when they wound and slash the victim, show clearly that they believe in and expect to have the demon as their friend by killing people for him.

  21. In this condition they stand on the ridgepole of the roof, and also under the house, and in all places they slash and cut right and left with the catan and make various gestures and set movements for the same purpose.

  22. I take pleasure in talking; I will fight valiantly with my keen kris; And although my blood is poured on the ground, I will slash on hearing it fall.

  23. Professor Snodgrass raised the knife to slash the tentacle of the beast that held him captive.

  24. He would slash it, even though the beast in its throes might do them serious harm.

  25. Look away for a moment, I'm going to slash it.

  26. They returned as wolves return to cover, satisfied with the slaughter that they had done, and only stopping to slash at the wounded on the ground.

  27. It was composed of, perhaps, three hundred men, who would shout and fire and slash if the rush of their fifty comrades who were determined to die carried home.

  28. Indeed when Lad ventured overnear the fuzzy baby, he was warned off by a querulous growl from the mother or by a slash of her shiny white teeth.

  29. The eye-tooth slash that would have cut the little girl's arm to the bone, sent a red furrow athwart Lad's massive shoulder.

  30. With dizzying quickness his head and body moved--and kept moving, and every motion meant a deep slash or a ragged tear in his enemy's short-coated hide.

  31. An instant later the copperhead lay twisting and writhing and thrashing impotently among the grassroots; its back broken, and its body seared almost in two by a slash of the dog's saber-like tusk.

  32. He may bite or slash a dozen times in as many seconds and in as many parts of the body.

  33. Armenia also managed to slash inflation and to privatize most small and medium-sized enterprises.

  34. For the slash which held the river had narrowed.

  35. The knife was moving to slash a hide lashing, directed by his hand, but not his will.

  36. Only the whip rose, the lash curled out, catching Shann just as it had that time years ago, delivering a red slash of pure agony.

  37. Though he suffered a slash across the back of one hand, delivered by the over-excited Taggi, in the end Shann was able to get both animals away from the hole, now corked so effectively by the slavering thing.

  38. Zenobia looked on in a kind of stupor, and when she saw me begin to slash the dresses she turned pale and made an involuntary motion to stay my hand, for not knowing my intentions she thought I must be beside myself.

  39. He would look at his purchaser with a malign cunning in his eyes, and sometimes make a slash at his leg with gnashing jaws.

  40. The shock bowled him clean over, so that he rolled out of the thicket, and at the same time he got a tearing slash down his flank.

  41. Why should he want to slash away the forest and plow up the ancient mould, when it is infinitely pleasanter to roam about in the leafy solitudes, or sit upon a mossy log and listen to the chatter of birds and the stir of beasts?

  42. Boney must have sadly disconcerted the comfortable system of these old warriors by the harrowing, restless, cut-and-slash mode of warfare that he introduced.

  43. After such sights, a taxi would slash its way into the traffic and whisk us away on a perilous drive to more hospitable places.

  44. Then I noticed the drain located to the side of the incision, and was shocked to discover that the soft rubber tube extended to my interior regions through an open slash in my side.

  45. Thought, like lightning, breaks through the air in a quick slash from cloud to ground.

  46. She slept so well that when the groping search-light of a coming automobile began to slash the night and the rubber wheels boomed across the bridge she did not waken.

  47. The transplants, especially the slash pine, are going to be just so much kindling before I get new pumps in.

  48. Funny thing to me, Matt, that Perry didn't slash the tires.

  49. Here and there Kinnersly was forced to slash the tough creeper with his knife before he could force a passage.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviate; abrade; abrasion; abridge; amputate; aperture; assail; attack; band; bar; bark; bend; bias; bisect; blaze; blemish; blister; bloody; breach; break; breakage; burn; burr; burst; butcher; carve; castigate; chafe; cheapen; check; chip; chiseling; chop; claw; cleave; cleft; clip; concussion; crack; crackle; craze; crimp; crop; curtail; cut; dash; decline; deflation; delineation; depreciate; depreciation; diagonal; dive; drub; engraving; etching; excise; excoriate; fall; fell; fissure; flay; fracture; fray; fret; gall; gap; gash; glyptic; hack; hackle; haggle; hairline; halve; hatching; hew; hurt; incise; incision; indent; injure; injury; inscription; jag; knife; lacerate; laceration; lance; lash; lesion; line; lining; lour; lower; lowering; maim; mark; marking; maul; mill; mutilate; mutilation; nick; notch; oblique; open; pare; picot; pierce; pink; plummet; plummeting; plunge; prick; prune; puncture; reduce; reduction; rend; rent; retrench; rhomboid; rift; rive; roast; run; rupture; sag; savage; saw; scald; scale; scallop; scarify; scathe; scissor; scorch; score; scourge; scrape; scratch; serrate; sever; shave; shorten; skin; slam; slant; slap; slash; slashing; slice; slit; slump; snip; sore; splinter; split; sprain; stab; stick; stipple; strain; streak; streaking; striation; strip; stripe; stroke; sunder; tear; tint; tooling; tooth; transverse; trauma; trim; trounce; underline; underscore; whittle; wound; wrench