How to Use sludge in a Sentence

sludge

noun
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  • I can't bring myself to read that sludge.
  • But some of the sludge had breached the sandbags, spilling close to the road.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The foot of water covering the field was green, the sludge thick.
    — Zia Ur-Rehman Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
  • In the mid-1970s, the district and its sludge had different names.
    — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Be careful not to go too close to the water’s edge, as the sludge will suck the shoes right off your feet.
    — Soumya Karlamangla, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • She had been trapped for days with just her cat and still didn’t know when the sludge would recede.
    — Damien Cave, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2021
  • She had been trapped for days with just her cat, and still didn’t know when the sludge would recede.
    — New York Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Above the empty MetLife Stadium stands, the sky was sludge-gray.
    — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • But the bridge is still too low for the barge carrying sludge once a week from a site in Bergen County, N.J.
    — Paul Berger, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2023
  • He was framed, but the echoes of the imprisonment stick to Joe like toxic sludge.
    — Tracy Clark, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Pumps are plugged with trash, drains are clogged, and floors are covered with water or sludge.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 9 June 2022
  • His orders are to take control of our sewer pipes and sludge.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Cities have also begun to use the sludge as a source of energy.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2022
  • From one of the ship’s drain holes, a steaming pink sludge cascades into the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean.
    — Joshua Goodman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Her sister’s house, right next door, was covered by sludge.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Layers of sludge and debris can also be seen on the driveway.
    — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Even when all might be lost in a hopeless desert of lifeless toxic sludge, the future feels bright.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2024
  • The small bay was almost entirely drained of water, and the wrecks of wooden fishing boats stuck out of the brown sludge.
    — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • Multiple port-a-potties had fallen, adding to the sludge.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Shortly after Meatball gave birth, a rare ice storm hit, filling the dogs' den with hail and sludge.
    — Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 2 July 2023
  • After hours wading through the waist-deep sludge, Iman’s father managed to find a patch of dry land big enough for her small body.
    — Zia Ur-Rehman, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The sludge is removed during the treatment process, so that the liquid can be cleaned and discharged into the river.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Fifteen years or so ago, when the fjord was toxic sludge, these floating saunas would have been madness.
    — James Stewart, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2022
  • In the deep sea, where food is scarce and the landscape is mostly a mushy sludge, a shipwreck is precious real estate.
    — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Opponents fear that if the dam breaks, billions of gallons of toxic sludge would end up in the river.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The system cuts up to 99% of the methane emitted from the manure-sludge left behind in a dairy shed after milking.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Reid points out that quite a lot of the visible sludge could be a harmless species of algae and not the dreaded cyanobacteria.
    — Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Johnson makes his Green Giant, then starts taking more pills in between sips of dark-green sludge.
    — Time, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Milner extracts the critters and their twiggy sludge, then preserves and bags them.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • If one touches the toxic sludge, it could be absorbed by the skin and cause irritation.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021

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