Slime

//slaɪm//

"Slime" in a Sentence (21 examples)

There was green slime oozing out of the pipe.

Green slime oozed out the pipe.

Both hands are labouring the fierce knots to pull; / black gore and slime his sacred wreaths distain. / Loud are his moans.

Her clothes were covered with slime, a snake had got among her hair, and hung dangling down her back.

And each one said to his neighbour: Come, let us make brick, and bake them with fire. And they had brick instead of stones, and slime instead of mortar.

The slime was black and stinky.

And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river's brink, his sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.

The slime was blackish and smelly.

Slime was oozing out of the pipe.

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As it [the Nile] ebbs, the seedsman / Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain.

You ſhould rub your Teeth and whole Mouth and Gums, the Pallate and Tongue, with a clean courſe cloth, rubbing off the ſlime which groweth upon them in the night.

"What about that, you slime?"

If this guy knows who killed Robert, the right thing to do is to tell the police. If he doesn't know, really, then he's an opportunistic slime. It's still blackmail.

This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.

[…] th'eternall Lord in fleshly slime / Enwombed was, from wretched Adams line / To purge away the guilt of sinfull crime […]

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared.[…]’

Missy gave a low, snuffly bark and butted my hand, effectively sliming it.

If so, this job was better than sliming salmon any day.

You and me bunked in that dorm on the hill, remember? And slimed fish under that tin roof down there.

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