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Example sentences for "sloshing"

Lexicographically close words:
slopping; sloppy; slops; slosh; sloshed; slot; sloth; slothful; slothfulness; sloths
  1. These upper bunks are the best when the water is sloshing in here a foot-and-half deep.

  2. No sloshing decks on this hooker onless she trips up.

  3. Donald took the spokes and the others went for'ard along the swaying, sloshing decks.

  4. The sloshing and lapping of the tide came up to her; and that was all for a minute or two.

  5. In the morning they dried themselves--so Dick said--by rolling into the water and sloshing around.

  6. Dick finished inspecting the rifles and ammunition and crawled back along the piles of boxes and over the sloshing water.

  7. A bucket of water came sloshing down the conning-tower hatch.

  8. Today, an earthquake shook our island, sloshing water from our courtyard fountain, making birds cry out.

  9. I heard the surf growing wilder, sloshing over rocks, climbing the lower cliffs, rising and falling onto itself with a hiss.

  10. They walked out to the jutting end of the vast pier, studying the aimless restlessness of the ocean drift sloshing against the clustered piles.

  11. The train, perched on a spidery trestle, crawled high above the sloshing waves, broken by blackened oyster-bed stakes and a skiff slapping against the dismembered head of a narrow pier.

  12. After sloshing about in several primitive trenches in the vicinity of the spot where we had fixed our best machine-gun position, my sergeant and I discovered a sort of covered passage in a ditch in front of a communication trench.

  13. The voice emerged from that white-noise roar of water humming and sloshing back and forth in her basket.

  14. He dropped his boxers and stripped off his T-shirt and climbed into the tub, sloshing gallons of water over the scummy tile floor.

  15. He had a dishpan full of soapy water, and he kept sloshing the water through the chimney.

  16. To keep his oil from sloshing out when he starts home.

  17. No sound came to us but the sloshing of the rain out of a sodden sky and the noise of falling waters from mountain burns in spate (flood).

  18. Sloshing water with her hand, she gazed about her.

  19. The sloshing water added to the coolness of the shade.

  20. Of course, in sloshing around over so wide a field, Mr. Talmage gave his hearers his truly valuable opinion of Mohammedanism.

  21. No, please let me wash," begged Dum, "I adore sloshing in suds.

  22. While Dum was sloshing in the suds and Nan was busily drying the dishes that piled up to such great heights they looked like ramparts, Page and Helen came in to try their hands at pies for Saturday's picnic.

  23. I was all the more surprised to meet her one very snowy Sunday afternoon, sloshing along the road in the liquid mire, the little dog squattering sadly behind, her small black paws sliding on the ice-crusted paving.

  24. By sticking my head through a window I could see excellent combers of green sloshing down into the 'tweendecks.


  25. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sloshing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    babbling; lapping; splashing