Sloughed definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Her stockings had been unhitched from her garters and hung in slack transparency around her fat calves, like the sloughed-off skin of a snake I told you," Pheola said to the gray-haired man It's nice that you're right once in a while," he said in a scratchy, sleepy voice, walking past her to switch on the ceiling of the room on the right side of the hall She didn't like that.

—Card Trick

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The big vehicle sloughed, almost went into the small creek to his right, and then pulled ponderously ahead just as the green pickup slid through the space where Dale had been two seconds earlier I should just get out and fight them . — AWinterHaunting
Their faces sloughed, dough swelling and splitting. — FSFMay2005
YouTube, that incandescent tower of video Babel; monument to the sloughed-off detritus of our exponentially-exploding digital culture; a Technicolor cataract of skateboarding dogs, lip-synching college students, political punditry, and porn; has reached the zenith of its meteoric rise … — Techmeme
YouTube, that incandescent tower of video Babel; monument to the sloughed-off detritus of our exponentially-exploding digital culture; a Technicolor cataract of skateboarding dogs, lip-synching college students, political punditry, and porn; has reached the zenith of its meteoric rise; and Icarus-like, wings melting; is spiraling back to earth. — p2pnet news
Of course, nobody else can see the scary accumulation of sloughed-off skin, pet hair, food particles, insect parts, mold spores, and other disgusting nasties. — PC Magazine: New Product Reviews