Verb The children sloshed through the big puddle. Water sloshed in the bottom of the boat as it rocked. Juice sloshed over the rim of her glass. The child sloshed the water in the tub.
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But the Americans could never present a stable or convincing new reality to ordinary Afghans, who watched as security crumbled and new forms of corruption flowed from the slosh of cash and contracts that came with the occupation. Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021 The slosh of water turns to sludge; a baby passes by him, dead and flushed away. Imani Perry, The Atlantic, 7 May 2021 Constantly feeling water slosh around inside your boots usually results in your hike being cut short. Matthew Young, chicagotribune.com, 20 Mar. 2021 Though the slosh of Earth’s oceans produces a comparable sound, scientists have yet to suss out a plausible cause for the Red Planet’s curious tune. Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2020 The Post’s hub — a journalistic nerve center where editors once plotted coverage and sent breaking-news alerts to millions of readers — was silent but for the hum of air conditioning and the slosh of a distant mop.Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2020 Those lakes are filled with methane and ethane rather than water, and any inhabitants would have to deal with temperatures reaching 300 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, but where liquid sloshes, life might find a way. Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2020 Earth has many steady background hums, the most prevalent of which comes from the slosh of oceans and the crash of waves against the shore.National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2020 By collecting them from all over the sky, the WMAP and Planck telescopes caught the early universe and its contents mid-slosh.Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2020
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Atlantis II, which featured a swimming pool on a gyroscope so that the water would not slosh in heavy seas. Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 There's less room for the brain to slosh around in the cranial cavity, thereby reducing the risk of concussion. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 15 July 2022 In Central and West Africa, where the virus is endemic, scientists suspect that at least a couple of rodent species intermittently slosh it into humans. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 June 2022 The tsunami will likely slosh up the sides of the Strait of Juan de Fuca and expend its residual energy on the western shore of rural, sparsely populated Whidbey Island. Bruce Barcott, Outside Online, 25 Aug. 2011 As all that cash continues to slosh around the financial system, there’s no reason to think that some of it won’t end up in Clinton hands, especially given the clan’s documented zest for fundraising. James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022 This superionic alloy would then allow other elements to slosh around it. Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Mar. 2022 The trap is shaped like the bottom of a bowl, so the atoms gently slosh back and forth. Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022 The intensity fluctuations derived from the membrane then drive the atoms to slosh even more vigorously. Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022 See More