sloughing
IPA: sɫˈʌfɪŋ
noun
- Something sloughed off.
- (zoology) The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.
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Examples of "sloughing" in Sentences
- America’s obsession with "sloughing" by examining nationalism in John Louis O’Sullivan’s
- To avoid such possible inversion, early party leaders began "sloughing" votes off the party's vice presidential choice.
- American romantic literature finished its "sloughing" and achieved a uniqueness that distinguished it from the writings of Europe.
- European consciousness completely "(58): this process of" sloughing "and the concern over the literary development of a nationalist text has been a long-standing subject of critical literary discussions.
- Grey v-neck, no sleeves, grey shirt, dark shorts with the hems fraying a fringe over his skinny white legs, knee-socks sloughing down towards his ankles, and a blinking unfocussed look on his friendly freckled face.
- There has been speculation that the breakup of the urban public school systems is irresistible because it offers municipalities a way to reduce their payrolls while sloughing off the responsibility for running the schools.
- If lameness is due to acute inflammation bad results such as sloughing and loss of the hoof may follow; and if large exostoses mechanically interfere with function of the joint, or where articular erosions exist, no possible good can come from neurectomy.
- In years past, this kind of sloughing off of the various predilections that make someone an adult didn't have the far-reaching effect that it does today; before the age of viral transmission, YouTubed kingmaking and iRule, prepubescents didn't really have the ability to inflict their will on the rest of us.
- Their manner was more serious and they pressed their questions more insistently, not because Stilwell was less practiced than Regan at sloughing them off, although he was, but because the reporters were certain that Stilwell and his candidate had to be disappointed the debate had not changed the direction of the race.