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Example sentences for "slush"

Lexicographically close words:
slunk; slur; slurred; slurring; slurs; slushing; slushy; slut; sluts; sluttish
  1. Mud, slush and icy water took him to the knee at every step; but he plugged manfully forward, dragging the protesting horse after him.

  2. This he followed for three miles, through slush and half-frozen mud, then turned to the left.

  3. And then we mounted some big steps, with a slush of snow upon them, and struck a heavy ring of brass upon a great gate of some dark wood.

  4. Jousts, slush and uproar of battles, the frozen deathspew of the slain, a shout of spearspikes baited with men's bloodied guts.

  5. When none of the slush and mud fell on his hat and mittens he was easy to find.

  6. If you looked down into a cistern when he was lifting buckets of slush and mud you could tell where he was, you could pick him out down in the dark cistern, by the lights of his greenish yellowish hair.

  7. The last bucketful of slush and mud came at last for Jason Squiff.

  8. Sometimes the buckets of slush and mud tipped over and ran down on the top of his head.

  9. He reached his fingers down through the slush and mud and took out what was shining.

  10. Sometimes, of course, the white popcorn got full of black slush and black mud.

  11. Lot of gaudy slush about copper mines in general," he observed, "and not much information on Streaky Mountain.

  12. Cut out this Consumers' League slush and I'll get the stores back.

  13. The day was clear and warm, and except for the slush on the roads the drive was delightful.

  14. Max turned his car off the main highway into a little dirt road, almost impassable with its slush and snow.

  15. It was a difficult task, for the driveway was so covered with slush that it was hard to tell which was road and which was field.

  16. They waded through slush over their shoe-tops but could see no signs of any life.

  17. Owing to our having several snowfalls without wind, and to the action of the sun on the black rock, which I have mentioned already, the rookery became a mass of slush in many places, and in some of the lower-lying parts actually flooded.

  18. The nest had no stones, and was scooped deeply in the ground in a slush of melting snow, so that the eggs were nearly covered with water.

  19. As the slush snow came, and the time when David would be leaving drew nearer, Father Roland could not entirely conceal his depression, and he spent more time in the room beyond the locked door.

  20. Snow had been falling lightly during Jack's conversation with the commissary, and one of the servants was busily sweeping the slush into a corner.

  21. For three days the army lay at Lugo--three days of incessant rain, which turned to slush the snow on the hills, and proved more trying to the spirits and tempers of the men than the frost had been.

  22. And out there where it's warm and bright all the time, and you don't have to get up in the dark any more winter mornings and wade off through the slush to the street-car.

  23. I'm the lucky one who isn't going to have to wade through the slush any more.

  24. Eventually I kept clear of it, and walked in the slush of the field.

  25. And when the April sun began to soften the winter roads into slush he had to feint an attack on Volshenitsa and escape between two days from Bolsheozerki, returning to Shelaxa.

  26. If the "Y" in North Russia was not a fairly effective organization which went right to the front and stayed there, then a lot of officers and men in the 339th poured slush in my ears.

  27. The snowstorm had covered the ropes with an icy sheet--this is now peeling off and falling with a clatter to the deck, from which the moist slush is rapidly evaporating.

  28. For the moment we had a wild hope that she could be pulled up, but by the time we could rig shears the air temperature had converted the slush into hardened ice, and she was found to be stuck fast.

  29. So the horses were started, and the sleighs were turned in the deep slush until their backs were presented to one another.

  30. I can fancy the look on Grimes' face if I should try to put over any slush like this.

  31. Let's chuck out some of this slush that you've been publishing just because the writers are related to the Skoopdoodles of Skoopdoodle County.

  32. Not only were they compelled to wade through snow and slush but they were burdened with loads which might well have been regarded as too heavy for men to bear.

  33. Being forced to wade through sloughs several feet deep in slush the men were soon wet to the shoulders.

  34. To Mrs. Stanton she wrote: "O, that you were young and strong and free, and could fire off of the planet such ineffable slush as is being slobbered over our cause!

  35. No one but she would have trudged through the slush and rain to get those splendid names to that testimonial.

  36. Slush" was the general name given to the waste stuff and the money which it brought in was the "slush fund.

  37. The fund kept or raised for this purpose has always been known as the "slush fund.

  38. As for the precious slush can, I stowed that carefully away, at the back of some lumber in one of the pantry lockers, where it would not be found.

  39. If I had only had the wit to dodge the bosun's blows, the matter of the slush would have been turned off with a laugh, since he only struck me in the irritation of the moment.

  40. Such an one might have spilt all the slush in the ship, without getting so much as a cuff.

  41. You'll scrape up that slush you spilled, before you eat so much as a reefer's nut.

  42. I butted into him, spattering the slush all over him, besides making a filthy mess of grease on the deck, then newly cleansed.

  43. An overflow was in progress, the water running along the surface of the ice and soaking up the snow so that there was six inches of slush all over it.

  44. Spring seemed already here and summer treading upon her heels, for the town was all slush and mud from a decided "soft snap," the thermometer standing well above freezing for days in succession.

  45. Drag on, drag on, oh weary miles, Through mire, slush and sleet, To the glory of the rhythm Of the poor old broken feet.

  46. Damned old cur," wiping the slush from his worthless coat.

  47. Landed here, he turned to walk back along Seventh Avenue, but the slush was too much.

  48. Stand thee so, an' slush the water over me.

  49. But Herbert was not on wheels, and was proceeding through the slush and across the chasm, regardless of it all, when he was stopped by some of the men.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slush" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    avalanche; bathos; blizzard; candor; clay; crystal; flake; fluency; flurry; frankness; glibness; gumbo; gush; igloo; loquacity; mire; muck; mud; mush; nostalgia; ooze; openness; prolixity; romanticism; scum; sentiment; sentimentality; slab; slime; slip; slob; slop; slosh; sludge; slush; snow; snowball; snowbank; snowdrift; snowfall; snowflake; snowman; snowstorm; sociability; squash; swill; verbosity; volubility