How to Use sludge in a Sentence

sludge

noun

• 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
• One night, the weight of the sludge became more than the dam could bear.
  — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 20 Aug. 2020
• What comes out of the thermos is a pile of dark grey sludge.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 31 May 2020
• But Halden’s research was the first to find them in sewage sludge.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
• Is this not the very bottom of the boiling sludge pit that has been 2020?
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 16 Dec. 2020
• The gold sludge laps at the sides of the bowl on its way to your table, nearly spilling over the edge.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
• The foot of water covering the field was green, the sludge thick.
  — Zia Ur-Rehman Kiana Hayeri, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2022
• Now push a thick rag through the trap to wipe out any sludge or debris.
  — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 Aug. 2020
• Bonar kept the fish until the post-fire sludge had washed through and settled.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2020
• In the mid-1970s, the district and its sludge had different names.
  — Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2022
• The walls in her house still bare faint lines marking where the sludge inched upwards.
  — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 7 July 2019
• 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
• Back at her own apartment, sludge and debris blocked the front door.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2020
• Even after the sludge erased most of the town, residents have fought to keep their land.
  — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Nov. 2020
• But that didn’t bring much solace to those closer to the rising brown sludge.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• Above the empty MetLife Stadium stands, the sky was sludge-gray.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
• Larvae squirm through the sludge that covers the dirty dishes filling the sink.
  — Jennifer Reese, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Once that sludge is removed, the water is sent out to Eagle Creek.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Feb. 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 2 Nov. 2021
• The lake stinks, and signs go up warning that the toxic sludge can sicken children and kill pets.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 5 June 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
• The county has already committed $3.5 million for a sludge press house for the treatment plant.
  — Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024