How To Use Slash In A Sentence

Another protuberance outlined with two vertical incisions serves as a nose, and a horizontal slash suggests a mouth.
Expect original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to not slash spending in customer-facing systems.
Also, if Shilpa is subjected to more teasing from Jade's crew, she may well go postal and slash all the Celebrity Big Brother housemates' throats open with a breadknife. Big Brother Celebrity Hijack Betting Odds: Double Eviction, Emilia Out?
So basically, the thought is that this woman is going to start slashing the department, and only the really competent people will remain.
Tightly woven wool, wool melton, felted or boiled wool, leather and suede along with faux leather and suede all can be clipped, snipped, slashed or punched without fraying.

The type of damage being done to the cars ranges from wing mirrors being snapped off to glue being put in locks and tyres being slashed, with victims facing bills of hundreds of pounds.
One knife had slashed his side, penetrating upwards through the muscle and entering the lung.
An unclassifiable mixture of animation, drama, love story, coming-of-age-tale-slash-concert movie, Hedwig is adapted from Mitchell's off-Broadway hit of the same name.
He slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt.
The patronage (largely pontifical, but also royal and aristocratic) of the great sculptor-architect is the chief subject of Franco Mormando's lovingly researched "Bernini: His Life and His Rome," which, for all its splendid erudition, freely resorts to American common speech to characterize the sheer viciousness of the Baroque papal oligarchs and Bernini's own egomania (most famously characterized by his ordering a servant to slash the face of his unfaithful mistress, Costanza Bonarelli). The Heirloom City
In a related discussion on Slashdot, solprovider points out that ICANN's new policy may also put an end to what Network Solutions describes as "domain kiting," where several (possibly related) companies keep passing domain registrations from one to the next by taking advantage of the free grace period, effectively preventing the domains from ever being available to the public. Is Domain Name Front Running About To Come To An End? - The Consumerist
Activists covered cars in paint stripper and slashed tires.
We're the generation raised on Stephen King, The Shining or "shinning" if you're Groundskeeper Willie, Freddie and Jason slasher movies, and so on, but make a movie with some little English kids possessed by the spirits of dead lovers and we get all freaked out. Archive 2005-11-01
The problem is that traditional slash-and-burn agriculture is still the only option most farmers know.
That would slash prices to consumers - and also save insurers hundreds of millions of dollars because they would no longer foot the bill.
It means that councils will have to find more of their budget from council tax payers and/or slash services.
Adults like fresh stumps, slash, and logging debris.
He has ten slashes from what looks to be thick rope.
She pulled a knife and slashed at the angelic face before her.
One, several people mention that Paul Martin slashed funding to Health Canada, resulting in the current, infamous long waiting times. More answers
It works well, though, and since we bought a rotary slasher to replace the original flail mower it does the job of topping the paddocks and light mulching very well.
Features of the Fulton include reconstructed Portland stone features and detailing such as window surrounds, lintels and sills and sliding slash windows.
Once considered an adventurous shopping experience, these price slashers are now in easy proximity to the suburban jungle.
Rotherham is hoping to shrug off its unenviable title of the car crime capital of South Yorkshire with a new crackdown that aims to slash vehicle crime by a fifth.
These were the first casualties of that bloody war, and they did not even have time to draw their swords before the knives slashed across their throats.
He takes in her dark brown hair, badly cut, and over pale face accentuated by a shocking slash of vibrant red mouth.
Last autumn some one slashed hydraulic hoses on logging equipment inside the ranch, even though private security guards were on patrol there.
Japanese executives will probably never go as far a some free-market economists wish in slashing payrolls.
On the fringes of this retinue, lions and crocodiles pounce on their victims while an elephant runs amok, and at the centre is the Navab, enlarged as befits his status, bending from his richly caparisoned mount to slash at a lion.
In some cases, grocers have refused to sell food and petrol to anti-drug officials and vandals have slashed the tyres of their government vehicles.
Movie bombshell Megan Fox gave new meaning to the word transformer during a recent day out in L.A., when the sexy star, who is rarely seen without her signature dark eye makeup and slash of red lipstick, dared to go bare while picking up beauty supplies. Megan Fox Without Makeup (PHOTO)
He paints with harsh, slashing brushstrokes.
The Fed has slashed rates 12 times since 2001, producing a boon for fund investors.
Operating profits dropped by 18 percent to ￡105.9 million and interest charges were slashed by two-thirds to ￡5.4 million.
She shows us ponchos have a grungy side by teaming this slouchy slashed top with pink cords.
There were scars from burns, from stabs, slashes, and from his own magic.
It occurs to me that the ticks, slashes and comments made on a piece of student work would make a good template for a piece of visual art.
Beyond, a party had scaled the wall, and there the fight was hand to hand -- with gruntings, thrustings of spears, slashings of long knives that dripped red and cut again and rose and fell with hideous regularity! Darkness and Dawn
THE "bikeway rapist" who terrorised Brisbane for more than two years had his 25 years jail term slashed to 16 years after the Court of Appeal today found the sentencing judge failed to properly take into account all the mitigating circumstances. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
Now, every bloody tale from a slasher series such as Halloween to the video nasties of the 1970s can trace some element of their parentage back to Psycho.
What hedges still remain are no longer laid but occasionally slashed by a mobile mechanical flail.
The only thing I can assume is that the writer is counting on the reader to connect the cost of a bribe to the severity of said bribe (expensive bribes would target more powerful people/slash require more from the bribee (sp?)). Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
In 2007 tax concessions for commuters will be slashed and the tax-free allowance for both married and single persons will be cut.
She whipped through them, slashing them with her sword.
In Wednesday's budget, he is expected to slash the duty that breweries have to pay on ale, beer and stout.
A single fork of white lightning slashed the sky, hitting the willow in front of her.
The top of the stick smashed the man's nose, sending him stumbling backwards before a swift slash caught him in the neck and threw him to the ground.
At each node, the optimal distribution is given with alternative equally optimal distributions separated with a forward slash.
She was taken to Basildon Hospital with slashes to her eye and deep cuts to her upper lip.
The backslash represents the genomic cutting site.
More symbols were scrawled into the stone of the arch, crimson slashes carved in the rock as though they were weeping wounds in the gateway.
On the night Lincoln was shot, another would-be assassin put Seward's son in a coma and slashed the secretary of state's face so savagely that the doctor who saved his life said he'd "looked like an exsanguinated corpse. David Quigg: HRC's Choice: Seward or Chase?
Apart from the clear failure to understand what the word 'leader' actually means, this is almost always only an excuse for inaction, which lets the financial sector off the hook while public services are slashed, the poor get poorer and the world heats up. Sarah Anderson: Europe Takes the Lead in Drive to Tax Speculators
Erin is all Aussie as the girlfriend slash former student of Felix.
The Toronto-based nickel miner said it planned to slash 423 positions across all of its Canadian operations, with 261 jobs alone at its Sudbury, Ontario, operations.
They know that every public dollar slashed and every public employee laid-off or "furloughed" in the nation's most economically important state is another obstacle to Obama getting the economy moving again and thereby maintaining his popularity. Joseph A. Palermo: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Tea Bagging California
The thing beyond the stair-rail slashed downwards at Cardiff again and caught his sleeve.
He slashed his wrists in a failed suicide bid.
Except for delimbing and slashing, most of the phases are run on single daylight hour shifts, giving the crew a fair amount of time together after work.
Get in tough with your inner siren and go for high-octane glamour: think sequins, heels and a slash of red lipstick
The international community's historic commitment to slash worldwide poverty in half by 2015 -- known collectively as the Millennium Development Goals -- has resulted in real advances: Primary school enrollment is up, new cases of preventable diseases are down, and millions of people have climbed out of extreme poverty. Martti Ahtisaari: World Leaders Must Address Global Youth Employment Crisis
Of course, if we were sloshed we'd have to go for a slash.
I hate boys," she exploded, "they're the worry of our lives, Car'line and mine, -- they get into our garden, and steal all our fruit, and they hang on behind our chaise when we ride out, and keep me a-lookin 'round an' slashin 'the whip at 'em the whole livelong time; O my -- _boys! _ Five Little Peppers Abroad
The band's R&B dalliances push the song 'n' the band forward from simple slash 'n' burn to a cocky swagger.
Slash and Burn è un breve pezzo di motion graphics, il cui design, regia ed ogni altro aspetto, sono opera di James Rydesky alias Jamry. No Fat Clips!!! : JAMES RYDESKY – Slash and Burn
Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees.
The slashing of force levels alone will not demilitarise our society. ANC Today
Australia's winter crops, slashed by half in 2002, face decimation once again.
Distraught pet owners have offered a reward to find the brute who slashed their cat with a knife and left it for dead with a 12-inch gash across its back and side.
He placed his hands on it and looked over it, seeing a foot sticking out from under the tree, and a leg obscured by slashed jeans.
A good horse should be seldom slashed.
The Government hopes the move will help slash the differential between country and city fuel prices.
This quartet featured a stunning, slashing, angry modern-dance dialogue between two dancers, then a requiem for fallen comrades.
Don't slash your horse in that cruel way.
Senator Obama has been saying that it's his opponent who is guilty of what he calls slash and burn tactics and both of the candidates are unveiling negative ads in these final days before Tuesday's primary. CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2008
Beneath its wrongheaded, headline goal to slash net immigration, the government has sensibly made sure that a route remains open for entrepreneurs.
Close it with open bracket, forward slash, the word blockquote, and then close bracket. Election Central Morning Roundup
Without warning, Anubis stopped the blade, once again got a two-handed grip on it, and slashed it down at Set.
He also wants European states to slash aid to the poor countries that refugees flee from.
They abruptly slashed welfare rates by 22 percent, used workfare and other regulatory changes to drive people off benefits, froze minimum wages and stopped building social housing.
Like so many things in fandom, slash really began with Star Trek.
Michelle Kearney, the magazine's editor, likes to stand in front of large photos of slashing scalpels while punning: ‘We are totally cutting edge’.
After all, most of the lenders that are doing the slashing are relying on the credit scoring models to determine who is creditworthy, which is part of the reason the issuers are cutting credit lines. LJWorld.com stories: News
One key reason Romney didn't get the nod is his job slashing businessman past. Brown sticking with Romney over Palin
In Congress, proposed legislation would: Slash the number of refugees and immigrants admitted to the United States.
Better use of existing mashambas, and reafforestation of old ones, means a total end to slash-and-burn.
Gauzy, beaded, to-the-floor gowns that were slashed at the back (tastefully rather than tartily) made a pleasing antidote to Eighties-style excess. Top stories from Times Online
It stayed that way for a decade, using bunchers, skidders, delimbers and slashers to bring ready-to-saw material out of the bush.
His dress comported with his character, for he had almost as much brass and copper without, as nature had stored away within — His coat was crossed and slashed, and carbonadoed, with stripes of copper lace, and swathed round the body with a crimson sash, of the size and texture of a fishing net, doubtless to keep his valiant heart from bursting through his ribs. A History of New York
Like the ideal victim in the rougher sort of slasher flick, the Motion Picture Production Code was clean-cut, gradually gutted and took a while to die. When the Silver Screen Went Red
It is true that sandy uplands have forests of loblolly and slash pine, and that baldcypress is a dominant tree in swamps; but such vegetation represents either xerophytic and hydrophytic forms in excessively dry or wet habitats, or second-growth forest following fire and deforestation. Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest Province (Bailey)
From surreal puffball skirts to bulbous tops and slashed skirts, his clothes are not for the timid.
Callum looked down at the slashes on Seth's thighs.
In a time obsessed with figures and analyses he slashes away upon the field like an old-fashioned swashbuckler tackling pirates in some seafaring epic.
But as cheery, tune-filled postmodern parodies of cheesy slasher movies go, it's not bad. Times, Sunday Times
In Finland, slash-and-burn was often practiced in addition to permanent cultivation to balance crop fluctuations; in the huuhta system the crop could be multifold in favorable conditions.
With his hunting-knife he slashed the straps from his pack, unrolled his blanket, and got out dry socks and footgear. First Version of To Build A Fire
Each of the terms beginning with a backslash is a LaTeX command. American Scientist Online
Tait had taken some tap from McCullum, with boundaries to third man and fine leg in addition to a front-foot no-ball and a wide, but then McCullum slashed a big yahoo straight to third man. Australia v New Zealand - live! | Rob Smyth
I'm a shooter more than a slasher, but I can definitely get to the basket.
The cub's shoulder was stiff and sore, and for some time he limped from the terrible slash he had received. The Law of Meat
When vegetation is light, the right hand can release the shaft when maximally extended, allowing the slasher to pivot at the left shoulder.
In the years immediately following reunification, this empty terrain slashed through the newly open city.
What hedges still remain are no longer laid but occasionally slashed by a mobile mechanical flail.
Propaganda: CO2 Cuts May Not Change Daily Life Much hosted. ap.org WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans 'day-to-day lives won't change noticeably if President Barack Obama achieves his newly announced goal of slashing carbon dioxide pollution by one-sixth in the next decade, experts say. WN.com - Business News
Slashed sleeves, tied onto a doublet at the shoulders and cloaks worn from shoulder to armpit were more than simply fashion statements; they allowed a man to draw his sword and retain full mobility of the arm.
I mean, anyone who was ever a child and who’s ever written a letter to Santa proclaiming to have been a Very Good Boy (slash Girl) This Year might know that total forthrightness is far overrated. scatterbrain The Hyannis Port Story | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast
The predator moving into the glade, is splashed by hard slashes of sunlight, which combine with its cammo pattern making it hard to see.
Someone had slashed the tyres on my car.
He returned with a low slash under the shield of his opponent, the blow connected with his enemy's midsection with a loud thunk.
Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees.
Because the IT sector, by the year 2000, accounted for roughly half of U.S. GDP growth, the nosedive in IT growth slashed the growth rate of the overall economy.
The duke slashed out with a sound of fury, backhanding Edith across the face.
I stumbled forward to cover the bloody slashes on my back.
AND not to mention as informed by the angry video game nerd Winston was cut out of all the old video games. slash i don't care how, but i'd love paul rudd in this. he has that murray cynicism. Bill Murray Gives Details on His Ghostbusters 3 Appearance | /Film
Charges for binmen could be levied by the bag - and collections slashed by half - in a green revolution for Greater Manchester.
And long-term savers will be waiting to see if the insurer slashes bonuses on with-profits policies or keeps them on hold to reflect recovering markets.
Kale pulled out his sword and slashed at the operative, slicing Lance's arm across the shoulder before kicking him out of the way.
The transposon sequence is represented between backslashes.
The nearside front tyre had been slashed.
Paleontologists believe the meat-eating theropod dinosaur was light, agile and very fleet of foot,[Sentence dictionary] with three large slashing claws on each hand.
The award for the most daring slash revealing slash ridiculous red carpet outfit of all time goes to McGowan.
Professor Davis' leather jacket had been slashed at the back, about kidney height.
They say it would be an inexpensive way to help slash the budget deficit.
If the radishes or onions haven't quite opened up, then give them another slash or two.
As the drummer spits out a cacophony of quick-wristed rhythms and slashing fills, the music rages on to a cathartic finale.
Vincent slashed the string that was tied around Audrey's hair.
Chronomorphs are recognized by a trinomial preceded by a ‘slash’ mark, such as in Ondatra zibethicus Imeadensis.
That kind of hairsplitting scarcely becomes a superpower-slash-world leader in disarmament. Russ Wellen: Are Nonproliferation and Disarmament, Once Joined at the Hip, Headed for Divorce?
Her threshold for anger and frustration was low and she had once slashed her wrist.
The unpitying glares he gave as he slashed his opponents.
BFreeman wants to slash at least $ 400 million from an annual budget of $ 2. 4 billion.
Note the backslashes for lines that were too long to fit in this example.
Two months ago, a woman's long thumbnail slashed my cornea; the pain worsened overnight and I had to go to the hospital the next morning. June 2007
But the policeman was extremely nice, he let me pass, explaining in detail the meaning in Canada of the road sign with the green arrow pointing left with a big slash over it.
He then answers his own question with a vicious sideways slash that drops the bloody-nosed gumshoe to the ground while the entire audience winces in sympathetic pain.
I ran my finger around the tip of the glass seeing as I was practically done with the mushed up veggie slash stew that was slopped onto my plate.
It's a straightforward, unimaginative slasher picture about a serial killer convict, one Leo Rook, who kills off warders and fellow lags one by one when they are marooned on a lighthouse.
The modern agriculture already said goodbye to the slash-and-burn cultivation, the self-sufficient age, the time powerful pulse is summoning the informationization making agriculture.
Her black hair was slicked down, her mouth a cruel slash of red lipstick.
Indeed, even the mild intervention of a slash burn, to clear the cutover area of debris, would impede the forest's natural regeneration.
And I — what would I not have given for a bit of friendly wilderness, where, unseen, I might vent my joy in some mad freak, such as idiotically biting my hand; turning a somersault, or slashing at trees, in order to allay those exciting feelings that were well-nigh uncontrollable. How I Found Livingstone
Art facilities are slashed and art market is extreme fatigue, as well as a large number of galleries in collapse. Art purism has been washed by reality becoming too difficult to erect.
Thunder rumbled again, accompanied by a slash of lightning which lit up the sky for an instant.
Without pause, the finale begins with strings slashing through the drumming, followed by woodwind trills and a skipping melody.
The banks have committed themselves to boosting profits by slashing costs.
He also became known for his tart, slashing criticism about tax policy - including policies devised by people whose general goals he shared.
Holiday Mirror can exclusively reveal a Warner Holidays offer that slashes off ￡300.
He prays to God in some dim, dumb way, and vaguely imagines when he has been expedited from this sad world by a machete slash or bayonet thrust or high-velocity steel-jacketed bullet that all will be made square in that other world where God rules and where taskmasters are not. Mexico's Army and Ours
Ten years ago, nets belonging to the Knock United club were slashed at McLoughlin's field on the Knock road which at the time was being used as the club's pitch.
The employers - Vons and Pavillions, Ralphs and Albertsons - want to slash the health and retirement benefits of their cashiers, baggers, deli clerks and other employees.
The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
Joined by my daughter, who teaches middle school in Naples 'eastern suburbs, we spent the first few days leafleting the endless grid of streets that cover what had been, for thousands of years, slash pine forest and everglade waterways. Richard Appelbaum: Election Day Audacity in Immokalee, Fla.
Since officials began aggressively suppressing wildfire, many of Florida's forests have been taken over by slash and loblolly pine.
From the initial call, entries were slashed down to twenty hopefuls who then developed their screenplays under the beady eyes of hardened professionals.
There's such a contrast between the white lining of the underwing, and the small slash of white in the upperwing.
I wanted peace and quiet so I slid silently into the family room slash game room and sat down on a beanbag chair.
I drew my sword and slashed at all the enemies in my way as I ran to the top.
They slash each other with these kypes in fights among themselves to determine who will spawn with the females.
There are no back slashes nor punctuation to mark the end of the assignment.
In his autobiography, King mentioned that when he "chivved" someone (interesting that the slang hasn't changed), he was always careful to draw the blade downwards across the face, never upwards or sideways, so as not to slash a major artery. A Night With Annie Nightingale; Mary Anne's Send Off Show; Bandits of the Blitz; Jamie Cullum
Police called for sky-high car insurance premiums in Greater Manchester to be slashed after a huge fall in vehicle crime in the region.
The workforce has been slashed by half.
But there have been suggestions that much of the most painful slashing will be "backloaded Evening Standard - Home
Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Sole Music
Mexico is the second-largest producer of washed, arabica coffee beans, the kind that are sought by roasters such as Starbucks Corp. Colombia is the largest producer but has suffered from multiple poor harvests, which slashed global supplies and sent prices surging to almost 14-year highs. Mexico's Coffee Harvest Struggles
(I'll leave aside Lithwick's ongoing effort, which Jonathan Adler has aptly remarked on before, to reposition herself from her previous role as a perpetrator of the "vicious slash-and-burn character attack" to her new role as a hypersensitive bemoaner of any criticism of nominees.) Bench Memos
Union bosses are refusing to negotiate until the airport withdraws threats both to re-employ staff on lesser contracts, and to impose plans to axe 150 jobs, slash wages by 40 per cent, and reduce holidays.
My new dress is pale blue, with a dark blue slash in the sleeves.
The slashes (virgules) in Caxton's text were an experiment in punctuation, and are roughly equivalent to commas.
An ice-cream vendor severely slashed a Bangkok dentist with a small sword after accusing him of pulling the wrong tooth, police said yesterday.
An ice-cream vendor severely slashed a Bangkok dentist with a small sword after accusing him of pulling the wrong tooth, police said yesterday.
The mill, which was open to the public during the week, has had its visiting hours slashed.
The mahout carried an invaluable knife-weapon, called a parang, broadest and heaviest at the point, and as we passed through the jungle he slashed to right and left to clear the track, and quite thick twigs fell with hardly an effort on his part. The Golden Chersonese and the way thither
He slashed the Administration for its politics.
To avoid any further confusion, though, Ryan took the ampersand out of the show's title and replaced it with a slash.
It was a really cool partnership, because he'd write the scripts and then I kind of acted as the producer slash director to execute them.
When this happens it can dramatically slash profits - and can even threaten a business with extinction.
My own report, to be published shortly, will conclusively prove police discrimination in stopping sword slashing paranoid-schizophrenics 50 times more regularly than those in the general population, demanding the end of this prejudiced practice. Police Search Too Few White People SHOCK!! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
South American sugar cane ethanol also relies on slash and burn agriculture on thin topsoil creating ever increasing dead zones in the rain forest. Archive 2009-10-18
The crowd roared as Derryn swung his sword up, the large blade of his broadsword knocking aside the slash aimed at his head.
There would be special rules regulating the disposal of slashings, methods of cutting timber, and of extracting forest products such as pulpwood or naval stores. The School Book of Forestry
A moratorium has been placed on fishing two species - the white steenbras and the 74 - while the number of fish of 16 other species anglers are allowed to catch has been slashed, generally by ANC Daily News Briefing
Mister President Cool may have belled the cat by insisting on an automatic trigger to slash spending in two sacred cows -- Medicare and defense equally -- if $1.5 billion worth of deficit cuts aren't made by Congress in November. Diane Francis: Did Obama Bell the Cat?
She bashed and battered the pole for a long time until at last, with a scream, she slashed across the pole with a strength that she did not know she had.
The presentation ended with a sea of white, starting with a sexy silk gauze ribbon-slashed gown.
JANIS: Other witnesses reported hearing the knifeman roaring and grunting as he slashed and stabbed his victims. CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2008
more people know who the hamburgler is than emperor norton. this is your savage garden; this is my angel's gaol, my demiurge imbroglio. the i-ching reads 23 23 23, the coins spin 666 & i say again this savage garden i will slash & burn. stargazers will read of bad dreams in astrological morse code. here i come, custer, here come the woodwose people. Mordicai: crown me king!
Cameron faced a slash head-on, then stepped back as one claw went for his eyes.
his slashing demon-ridden cadenza
Now, he's slashing capital expenditures and ransacking his portfolio for bits and pieces to sell, all to bring down debt.
She tried to commit suicide by slashing her wrists.
Beds of nettles are slashed to the ground when the caterpillars of red admiral and other butterflies are hatching for next year's generation.
If my neighbour is a bum, I can slash his tires or cut his telephone lines. Archive 2007-08-01
AN 18-year-old woman who threatened a police officer with a kitchen knife began to slash her own wrists with the weapon.
Indiscriminately slashing parking space by half with no regard to residents' own needs is wrong, few can argue with that.
The truck was sitting on the bridge still, but she could see the tires had been slashed, with her knife she presumed.
But can the world's No. 1 food colossus fatten up its profits as it slashes costs?
She began to parry and dodge their blazing fast attacks, but she was clearly outmatched and succumbed to their slashes and blows and was being pushed back.

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