How to Use slosh in a Sentence

slosh

1 of 2 noun
  • There's no purchase when the slosh gets rutted and deep enough.
    — Alli Harvey, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Ken rustled papers on his desk, fighting a weird slosh of tears.
    — Elisabeth Egan, chicagotribune.com, 10 June 2017
  • The slosh of water turns to sludge; a baby passes by him, dead and flushed away.
    — Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 7 May 2021
  • Earth has many steady background hums, the most prevalent of which comes from the slosh of oceans and the crash of waves against the shore.
    — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Just like an ocean wave is a slosh of water and a sound wave is a movement of air, gravitational waves are likewise the motion of a medium.
    — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 11 Feb. 2016
  • Constantly feeling water slosh around inside your boots usually results in your hike being cut short.
    — Matthew Young, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Using anti-slosh dams inside the reservoir, designers aimed to prevent fluid from moving around when low.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Oct. 2018
  • As the helium sloshes, the collisions cause some of the helium atoms to flip orientation.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 June 2018
  • At one moment, a massive wall of water will build and at the last second slosh against the shore, while another more sneaky operator will thunder in and send spray a dozen feet into the air.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Though the slosh of Earth’s oceans produces a comparable sound, scientists have yet to suss out a plausible cause for the Red Planet’s curious tune.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The Post’s hub — a journalistic nerve center where editors once plotted coverage and sent breaking-news alerts to millions of readers — was silent but for the hum of air conditioning and the slosh of a distant mop.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Those lakes are filled with methane and ethane rather than water, and any inhabitants would have to deal with temperatures reaching 300 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, but where liquid sloshes, life might find a way.
    — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Her most important paintings, especially the violent loops and sloshes from the months after Pollock’s death and the stormlike monochromes of the 1960s, have an authority that can survive even the sleepiest hang.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019

slosh

2 of 2 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.
  • The pond will slosh around for a bit and then become still again.
    — Quanta Magazine, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But the same ladle was sloshed between the red and white sauce vats.
    — Mike Kerrigan, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The trap is shaped like the bottom of a bowl, so the atoms gently slosh back and forth.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
  • If the storm hits during high tide, more water will slosh inland.
    — Alex Harris, miamiherald, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The toilets in those many bathrooms may end up sloshing around on windy days.
    — Curbed, 5 July 2023
  • Blood and vomit sloshed on the floor, and some of the men fainted from the pain and the stress.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Its steel pet bowl is sturdy with a rubbery base to keep it from sloshing around.
    — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
  • As the clock struck noon and time ran out, the last bit of paint was sloshed onto the last picket.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The electrons should be thought of as waves, sloshing around the nuclei.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
  • That sloshing movement happens on a large scale, too, in lakes and bays.
    — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2018
  • When the battery kicks in, vibrations slosh back and forth like waves in a pool.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Crocs and Kevlar gloves and weapons-grade sunglasses slosh around the bilge.
    — Ben Lowy, Smithsonian, 23 May 2018
  • The flood rises above their heads as the wind howls and floating cars slosh at the surface.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2018
  • The tides that slosh the oceans back and forth affect rotation speeds, and so does the wind.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2021
  • His blood sloshed through the device’s tiny channels and pressed against its protein snares.
    — Elie Dolgin, IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2026
  • Waves sloshed back and forth in the 5-gallon jug atop my water cooler.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
  • That's because the size of this deal and the amount of stock that is sloshing around and will be spawned is too great.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 June 2026
  • That would spread out in all directions, sloshing the fluid up and down.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2018
  • If some oil sloshes off a ship or leaks out of a pipeline, what’s the difference?
    — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The patient − a baby raccoon − was sloshed.
    — Michael Collins, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • This tidal force causes the oceans to slosh around in two bulges that point toward and away from the Moon.
    — Stephen Dikerby, The Conversation, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Some overzealous partiers get too sloshed and a little handsy with the scareactors.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Ford would then have to cradle 10 cups of sloshing lemonade on the drive home.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The bear market of last summer has grown horns, and now there are huge sums of money sloshing around.
    — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 27 June 2019
  • The soft soil behaves like a liquid, sloshing back and forth between the troughs and peaks of the waves.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • Be sure to move the liquid around (slosh and splash it a bit) to ensure every side and corner gets wet.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 12 July 2023

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