How to Use sludge in a Sentence
sludge
noun
- I can't bring myself to read that sludge.
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But some of the sludge had breached the sandbags, spilling close to the road.
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Christine Condon,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Apr. 2022
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One night, the weight of the sludge became more than the dam could bear.
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Warren Cornwall,
Science | AAAS,
20 Aug. 2020
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What comes out of the thermos is a pile of dark grey sludge.
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Jennifer Leman,
Popular Mechanics,
31 May 2020
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But Halden’s research was the first to find them in sewage sludge.
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Megan Molteni,
STAT,
17 June 2021
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Is this not the very bottom of the boiling sludge pit that has been 2020?
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Mark Hachman,
PCWorld,
16 Dec. 2020
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The gold sludge laps at the sides of the bowl on its way to your table, nearly spilling over the edge.
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Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
22 July 2024
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The foot of water covering the field was green, the sludge thick.
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Zia Ur-Rehman Kiana Hayeri,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2022
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Now push a thick rag through the trap to wipe out any sludge or debris.
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Joseph Truini,
Popular Mechanics,
25 Aug. 2020
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Bonar kept the fish until the post-fire sludge had washed through and settled.
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Ian James,
The Arizona Republic,
31 Oct. 2020
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Now push a thick rag through the trap to wipe out any stuck-on sludge or debris.
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Joseph Truini,
Popular Mechanics,
26 Jan. 2019
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In the mid-1970s, the district and its sludge had different names.
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Michael Hawthorne,
Chicago Tribune,
10 Sep. 2022
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The walls in her house still bare faint lines marking where the sludge inched upwards.
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Sam Tabachnik,
The Denver Post,
7 July 2019
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Be careful not to go too close to the water’s edge, as the sludge will suck the shoes right off your feet.
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Soumya Karlamangla,
New York Times,
29 Nov. 2023
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Carpenter said the ultimate aim of the plan is to leave sludge in the tanks.
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Ralph Vartabedian,
latimes.com,
5 June 2019
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She had been trapped for days with just her cat and still didn’t know when the sludge would recede.
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Damien Cave,
BostonGlobe.com,
11 Dec. 2021
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She had been trapped for days with just her cat, and still didn’t know when the sludge would recede.
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New York Times,
9 Dec. 2021
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Back at her own apartment, sludge and debris blocked the front door.
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Washington Post,
17 Sep. 2020
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Even after the sludge erased most of the town, residents have fought to keep their land.
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Ana Ionova,
The Christian Science Monitor,
13 Nov. 2020
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The water boils off and all that's left is a few teaspoonfuls of sludge.
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Mike Allen,
Popular Mechanics,
9 Oct. 2018
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But that didn’t bring much solace to those closer to the rising brown sludge.
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New York Times,
22 Mar. 2021
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Above the empty MetLife Stadium stands, the sky was sludge-gray.
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New York Times,
10 Jan. 2022
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Larvae squirm through the sludge that covers the dirty dishes filling the sink.
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Jennifer Reese,
Washington Post,
10 Sep. 2020
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Much of the sludge is stored in single-wall underground tanks that have leaked.
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Ralph Vartabedian,
latimes.com,
5 June 2019
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But the bridge is still too low for the barge carrying sludge once a week from a site in Bergen County, N.J.
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Paul Berger,
WSJ,
11 Dec. 2023
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He was framed, but the echoes of the imprisonment stick to Joe like toxic sludge.
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Tracy Clark,
Washington Post,
24 Feb. 2023
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Once that sludge is removed, the water is sent out to Eagle Creek.
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Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
26 Feb. 2024
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Pumps are plugged with trash, drains are clogged, and floors are covered with water or sludge.
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Christine Condon,
Baltimore Sun,
9 June 2022
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His orders are to take control of our sewer pipes and sludge.
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John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com,
al,
2 Nov. 2021
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The county has already committed $3.5 million for a sludge press house for the treatment plant.
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Sherry Greenfield,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Aug. 2024
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