SLASH in a Sentence

Learn SLASH from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For SLASH, below is one of 35 sentences:
She was dressed in black from her huge men's shoes, slashed to permit freedom for her toes, to her black head rag.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of SLASH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
slash
 v.  cut; reduce largely
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Carol tried to look at him, yet not look at the seeping blood, the crimson slash, the vicious scalpel.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  I have known him to cut and slash the women's heads so horribly, that even master would be enraged at his cruelty, and would threaten to whip him if he did not mind himself.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  This caused people all over France to begin to slash at and drown one another.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER I
4  A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  She was dressed in black from her huge men's shoes, slashed to permit freedom for her toes, to her black head rag.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  She marveled that in what was to her but a night-blurred moment, he should have been in a distant place, have taken charge of a strange house, have slashed a woman, saved a life.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  The regiment, unmolested as yet, awaited the moment when the gray shadows of the woods before them should be slashed by the lines of flame.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
8  It was furiously slit and slashed by the knifelike fire from the rifles.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
9  My captain concealed me behind him; and with his drawn scimitar cut and slashed every one that opposed his fury.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
10  He was well slashed up on this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left arm alone.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
11  The arms had been slashed with sabre cuts.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
12  But at this sort of work, many doublets must be slashed and many swords broken.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 6 HIS MAJESTY KING LOUIS XIII
13  One could see from the street right into the room with the hog's-leather hanging, which was slashed and torn; and the green grass and leaves about the balcony hung quite wild about the falling beams.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE OLD HOUSE
14  These boots, an old foil, and a slashed doublet once used by an artist for some picture, were Jo's chief treasures and appeared on all occasions.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
15  They all slashed and cursed and yelled like heroes.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
Example Sentence:
1  Traditional slash and burn farming methods have exhausted the soil.
2  We had to slash our way through the undergrowth with sticks.
3  You often write a slash between alternatives, for example, 'and/or'.
4  During the last election campaign, the French President Jacques Chirac promised he would slash value added tax on restaurant meals, to provide a boost for this crucial sector of the economy.
5  He slashed the Administration for its politics.
6  He slashed the Administration for its policies.
7  The scissors slashed his finger open.
8  The nearside front tyre had been slashed.
9  Bookmakers have now slashed his odds from 400/1 to 28/1.
10  Because of the impropriety of the punk rocker's slashed T-shirt and jeans, the management refused to admit him to the hotel's very formal dining room.
11  The malaise afflicting the German armed forces has deep roots; for most of the time since reunification, the country has been slashing the numbers in uniform.
12  It has eight lashing arms and two slashing tentacles growing straight out of its head and it's got serrated suckers that can latch on to the slimiest of prey and it's got a parrot beak that can rip flesh.
13  The President has chosen to kick-start the economy by slashing interest rates.
14  She tried to kill herself by slashing her wrists.