How to Use slosh in a Sentence
slosh
verb
- The child sloshed the water in the tub.
- Juice sloshed over the rim of her glass.
- Water sloshed in the bottom of the boat as it rocked.
- The children sloshed through the big puddle.
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The pond will slosh around for a bit and then become still again.
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Quanta Magazine,
8 Mar. 2018
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The trap is shaped like the bottom of a bowl, so the atoms gently slosh back and forth.
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Chris Lee,
Ars Technica,
7 Feb. 2022
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But the same ladle was sloshed between the red and white sauce vats.
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Mike Kerrigan,
WSJ,
15 Oct. 2017
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Snag tickets to a West End play, ride the London Eye, and slosh around in the many parks.
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Lindsay Cohn,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Oct. 2023
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And Meyers, indeed, did seem quite sloshed by the end of it.
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Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
18 Apr. 2023
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As the clock struck noon and time ran out, the last bit of paint was sloshed onto the last picket.
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Steve Rubenstein,
SFChronicle.com,
16 Oct. 2019
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The tides that slosh the oceans back and forth affect rotation speeds, and so does the wind.
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Nathaniel Scharping,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2021
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Crocs and Kevlar gloves and weapons-grade sunglasses slosh around the bilge.
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Ben Lowy,
Smithsonian,
23 May 2018
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Dress up, too: The chic crowds here have more on their minds than just getting sloshed.
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Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
8 Feb. 2024
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The flood rises above their heads as the wind howls and floating cars slosh at the surface.
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Rachel Becker,
The Verge,
13 Sep. 2018
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The electrons should be thought of as waves, sloshing around the nuclei.
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Chris Lee,
Ars Technica,
2 Feb. 2018
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The soft soil behaves like a liquid, sloshing back and forth between the troughs and peaks of the waves.
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WIRED,
15 June 2023
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The up and down drafts of these currents push against the wings of planes, and if the shoves are strong and sudden, drinks start sloshing.
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Katherine Wright,
Scientific American,
1 July 2023
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Soon, the squalid sea water that runs beneath Hong Kong’s streets sloshed around his knees.
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Suzanne Sataline,
Quartz,
30 Nov. 2019
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Pour some of this cleaner into the bowl and use a toilet brush to slosh it around the bowl and scrub up under the rim.
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Roy Berendsohn,
Popular Mechanics,
25 July 2023
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Waves sloshed back and forth in the 5-gallon jug atop my water cooler.
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Globe Staff,
BostonGlobe.com,
27 June 2019
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In the Valley, money still counts, of course: Billions of dollars slosh across the Bay Area.
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Ismail Muhammad,
The Atlantic,
8 Feb. 2020
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So as the light drives the electrons, the electrons can only slosh from one end of the nanoparticle to the other.
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Chris Lee,
Ars Technica,
17 Jan. 2018
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That sloshing movement happens on a large scale, too, in lakes and bays.
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Lacy Schley,
Discover Magazine,
8 May 2018
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The toilets in those many bathrooms may end up sloshing around on windy days.
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Curbed,
5 July 2023
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Be sure to move the liquid around (slosh and splash it a bit) to ensure every side and corner gets wet.
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Kelly Allen,
House Beautiful,
12 July 2023
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Its steel pet bowl is sturdy with a rubbery base to keep it from sloshing around.
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Medea Giordano,
WIRED,
31 Oct. 2023
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If the storm hits during high tide, more water will slosh inland.
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Alex Harris,
miamiherald,
7 Sep. 2017
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The hot water sloshes down my ear canal like an aural Neti Pot.
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James Lynch,
Popular Mechanics,
19 Oct. 2018
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That would spread out in all directions, sloshing the fluid up and down.
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Matthew Cappucci,
Washington Post,
6 Apr. 2018
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The bear market of last summer has grown horns, and now there are huge sums of money sloshing around.
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Ben Cohen,
WSJ,
27 June 2019
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