How To Use Slashed In A Sentence

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.
He slashed his wrists in a suicide attempt.
Activists covered cars in paint stripper and slashed tires.

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
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.
Last autumn some one slashed hydraulic hoses on logging equipment inside the ranch, even though private security guards were on patrol there.
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.
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.
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
What hedges still remain are no longer laid but occasionally slashed by a mobile mechanical flail.
In 2007 tax concessions for commuters will be slashed and the tax-free allowance for both married and single persons will be cut.
A single fork of white lightning slashed the sky, hitting the willow in front of her.
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
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.
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.
Without warning, Anubis stopped the blade, once again got a two-handed grip on it, and slashed it down at Set.
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.
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
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
From surreal puffball skirts to bulbous tops and slashed skirts, his clothes are not for the timid.
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
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
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.
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.
Someone had slashed the tyres on my car.
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.
Charges for binmen could be levied by the bag - and collections slashed by half - in a green revolution for Greater Manchester.
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 nearside front tyre had been slashed.
Professor Davis' leather jacket had been slashed at the back, about kidney height.
Vincent slashed the string that was tied around Audrey's hair.
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.
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
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.
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 museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
From the initial call, entries were slashed down to twenty hopefuls who then developed their screenplays under the beady eyes of hardened professionals.
I drew my sword and slashed at all the enemies in my way as I ran to the top.
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.
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
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.
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
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
Beds of nettles are slashed to the ground when the caterpillars of red admiral and other butterflies are hatching for next year's generation.
The truck was sitting on the bridge still, but she could see the tires had been slashed, with her knife she presumed.
Meanwhile, European nations have been concerned about how quickly Libya can resume its usual level of oil exports since the civil war has greatly slashed its oil production capability.
The service, which had its two-star rating slashed to zero last year, is reaching just 55 per cent of its 10, 400 calls classified as immediately life-threatening within the Government target of eight minutes.
Jobs have been slashed, productivity has skyrocketed, and profits have soared.
[T] oday what fascinates him is the flame-colored satin that is pulled through his slashed velvet oversleeve. The Seattle Times
The Eighties influence makes itself felt again in party wear, with slashed necklines, puffed sleeves, waists and skirts, halterneck tops and the accessory of accessories: the belt.
The singer shows us ponchos have a grungy side by teaming this slouchy slashed top with pink cords.
'Ay; that is, with the law, or by the law; be strapped up on the KIND gallows of Crieff, [Footnote: See Note 16.] where his father died, and his goodsire died, and where I hope he'll live to die himsell, if he's not shot, or slashed, in a creagh.' Waverley
I did the only thing I could think of at the time; I took my sword and slashed at the arm with amazing force.
There was a storm in the circle; the lightning strokes of claws slashed out and the thunder of snarls reverberated almost subsonically amongst the quiescent ruins.
He slashed through the rope.
Our only backup unit has been scavenged for parts since our budget was slashed last year.
The following year's prediction has been slashed from ￡314m to ￡270m.
Bush, famously or in -, slashed taxes to levels undreamt of even by Reagan. Matthew Yglesias » Steele: Cops, Firefighters, Soldiers, Postmen, Teachers All Secretly Unemployed
It was expected that the share of each state would have been slashed at today's meeting keeping in mind the dry conditions and the failure of the monsoons.
The £3.8 million we spend powering fridges and freezers could be slashed by defrosting them regularly and investing in energy-efficient models.
Hail hit hard and fast, and rain slashed the windows. Real life, or Memorex?
They slashed at his legs and horse, and Julius plunged his sword into the nearest man, a beast covered in blond fur.
With a rush of strength she slashed the whip across the harnessed mule's haunches.
We hacked and slashed our way through the forest until we reached a huge opening.
Now one has a healthier order book while the other finds its delivery times and its storage needs slashed.
Hard rains driven by high winds slashed through the camp.
They slashed trailer tyres, drilled holes through the hulls of boats and ruined the expensive protective covers.
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
Wolfus struggled to reach for his sword, and slashed off the coils with a single swipe.
Julius, a 53-year-old Nigerian with flecks of grey hair, lifted up his tracksuit trouser to show the slashed skin around his calves.
Fed up with expensive state assigned-risk pools, DDA rented a captive facility instead - and slashed its expenses by half.
Seizing an opportunity, he slashed upwards with his knife, the keen edge of his blade taking grip on the dog's neck.
A rare self-portrait, which the artist had slashed when told it was too flattering, has been patched up by a restorer from the National Gallery. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Profit margins have been slashed to the bone in an attempt to keep turnover moving.
The blade cut through bones and skin and flesh, and slashed the ground as it cut through.
Many poor families could not afford such activities as swimming classes for their children, especially after dole payments were slashed by 11 per cent last year.
The sizzlingly-scissored collection of ingeniously-worked fur andfeather, slashed leather coats, assymetric seaming, spliced body-condresses, ostrich-feather skirts, and super-tailored peplum jackets, was polished, modern and sophisticated, and drew high praise. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
Where the whitewash had peeled away, long streaks of dark wood slashed the walls like welts.
‘Your skills could use improvement,’ said Charles as he lifted his sword and slashed at my leg.
Profit margins have been slashed to the bone in an attempt to keep turnover moving.
This year the Ministry of Health absolutely slashed hospital waiting lists by reclassifying patients, disguising the fact that thousands of people were waiting for important operations.
In October 2000 50 positions were slashed at the company's bases in Melksham and Trowbridge as bosses attempted to balance the books.
Co. analyst Joseph LaManna slashed his 1995 earnings estimate to 73 cents a share from 95 cents.
Toyota has slashed Camry's lead content by reformulating undercoating, greases, bronze alloys and taking lead out of meter pointers, connections and heater cores.
Rembrandt has a quizzical, jesting expression, as well he may, in view of his wondrous hat and slashed leather jerkin, ornate with glass beads.
[This verse, or something similar, occurs in a long ballad, or poem, on Flodden Field, reprinted by the late Henry Weber.] "Ay, and then there was Martin Swart I have heard my grandfather talk of, and of the jolly Almains whom he commanded, with their slashed doublets and quaint hose, all frounced with ribands above the nether-stocks. Kenilworth
The big-hearted owner of a taxi company was so moved by the plight of Wakering residents who had their tyres slashed by vandals he has offered half-price fares to everyone affected.
Vandals slashed tyres, scratched bodywork and pulled off windscreen wipers.
Following a 40-minute rain delay, Robinson Cano slashed a double to left, then stole third on a botched pickoff attempt. Jeter Tallies Four Hits in Win
In fact, nearly all of the budget funds for ESMD technology development have been slashed and redirected to salvage the Ares program and elsewise. Reader's Consensus: Develop a new launch vehicle - NASA Watch
His dress was of the antique fashion of Charles the First’s time, and composed of shamoy leather, curiously slashed, and covered with antique lace and garniture. Old Mortality
As soon as he stepped into the galley, I kicked the sword out of his hand and slashed at him with my knife.
The tables turned and now the invisible was in defense, though every now and then it whipped its tail or slashed its claws.
Juki's sword slashed his robe, slitting the middle.
But the stock slide has slashed the value of his original investment by two-thirds.
A good Samaritan who was viciously slashed as he defended another subway rider from a razor-wielding robber said yesterday no other passengers came to his aid - not even the straphanger he rescued.
On Wednesday, Spain faced its first general strike in eight years after the government slashed spending to ease its budget deficit that has ballooned to 11% of GDP. European recovery hopes grow despite Ireland's swelling deficit
Stevens rode more confidently in the stretch, while Antley slashed away with his whip 17 times from the quarter pole home.
The stock market plunge has slashed at the soft underbelly of the giant insurance companies and pension funds.
That government slashed public spending and introduced monetarism.
Prices were slashed in some parts of the country, and many builders went bankrupt.
The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
Meanwhile, Asda slashed three to four pence per litre off its unleaded petrol and 2p per litre off diesel.
The firm says video footage will be sent to the children's parents and action taken to recover the daily cost of slashed seats, broken windows and snapped backrests on its fleet of 20 vehicles across the district.
Strangled to a kind of catatonia, she falls upon a daybed and has her throat slashed - by this point it is unclear whether that is adding insult to injury or vice versa. 31 Screams: Uta Levka
slashed cuffs showing the scarlet lining
Meanwhile, he has abolished many of the royalties due on North Sea oil and slashed corporation taxes.
The article does not dip a toe in any such analysis, relying instead on a two-pronged explanation of slashed funding and under-educatable immigrants: Reason Magazine Full Feed
There was a high-pitched mew, and one of the kitten's paws slashed up against the girl's right hand.
The technical annexe to the HS2 report quietly admits that Coventry, for instance, will have its fast London service slashed by two-thirds, from three trains an hour to one, and "decelerated" by at least 10 minutes. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
They slashed at his legs and horse, and Julius plunged his sword into the nearest man, a beast covered in blond fur.
Bush, famously or in -, slashed taxes to levels undreamt of even by Reagan. Matthew Yglesias » Steele: Cops, Firefighters, Soldiers, Postmen, Teachers All Secretly Unemployed
But you still hung, burnt at the pyre, slashed the throats, raped, murdered and pillaged the "savages" or those who would not adopt Christianity or your Victorian-era puritanism, which is responsible and has influenced much of the homophobia in many countries in Asia and Africa. AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
The leopard's claws slashed through soft flesh.
His hulking celebrity is no longer a novelty, and the governor is dogged everywhere he goes these days by the angry nurses, schoolteachers and firefighters whose budgets he has slashed.
KIND gallows of Crieff,42 where his father died, and his goodsire died, and where I hope he’ll live to die himsell, if he’s not shot, or slashed, in a creagh.’ Waverley
To add to the mess, opening hours of the collection office at Otley have been slashed - so anyone wanting to collect registered, undelivered mail will have to collect it before lunchtime - or wait until the next day.
She slashed wildly at the ball with the edge of the bat, and the ball bounced under the snooker table.
He whipped out his swords and slashed at it before it could get its bearings.
The tillerman on the second barge ducks, but some of the incautious levies who thought the first wires were the only wires are slashed by the recoiling wire whip. The Magic Engineer
Behind the dogcart came an oxcart pulled by two bald priests of Rift, asking for sacrifices, and behind them supplicants slashed themselves in ecstasy. Wildfire
A vicious cycle emerges where prices are slashed and producers try to out-discount each other.
We slashed our way through the dense forest.
In my mind I see her in her black sleeveless jacket over her gray slashed dress, with her characteristic smirk and scars on her arms.
He’d anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.
Once the department is corporatised, the imperatives of profitmaking and the market, not government promises, will determine what jobs, working conditions and benefits are to be slashed.
Whirling bodies slashed and hacked at each other; the slaughter was horrendous.
a slashed doublet
However, it recently slashed the price of the games machine to €299.
In the same way we have laciniated leaves of the Persian lilac, _Syringa persica_, and Moquin mentions instances in a species of _Mercurialis_ in which the leaves were deeply slashed. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
I lunged again, bringing my sword to his chest, but at the last minute, taking out my tanto I always kept hidden on my person, and slashed at the cloth concealing the ninja's face.
KIND gallows of Crieff, [Footnote: See Note 16.] where his father died, and his goodsire died, and where I hope he'll live to die himsell, if he's not shot, or slashed, in a creagh. ' Waverley — Volume 1
Bush slashed budgets for Vietnam vets, veterans hospitals and other veterans organizations while piously pointing the fingers democrats for not supporting our troops. Senator: 131,000 homeless vets a 'disgrace'
Milan, not in trunk hose and slashed sleeves, nor in "French standing collar, treble quadruple daedalian ruff, or stiff-necked rabato, that had more arches for pride, propped up with wire and timber, than five Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
He was wearing old, worn out blue trousers, boots of the same make, a blue slashed white shirt, and a bandanna on his head.
As the little cavalcade proceeded, the Indian guide, who wore a peaked plaited straw hat called jipijapa, a pair of white cotton pantaloons, and a heavy-bladed knife -- a machete -- hanging at his waist, with his machete occasionally slashed off a cane, to suck. Gold Seekers of '49
Sometimes it embodied narrower military dandyism, as men sported rolled silk handkerchiefs instead of sword knots, slashed the seams housing the peaks of their caps to make them lie flatter, or shrank berets to eliminate floppiness.
Commission at a threat to the very legitimacy of the European Union if the bloc's institutions continue their "mushrooming" while beyond Brussels, public spending is being slashed to the bone. EUobserver.com - Headline News
Jobs at the council have already been slashed through voluntary severance packages.
..okay, okay...hey, mister, wanna buy a "hand sharpened" pencil, price slashed down to $7.99...what a' ya want outta me, blood ? Street Justice: Crime and Punishment
He slashed his wrists in a failed suicide bid.
It uncovered a lump of cash roughly equal to the $893.5 million the state's transportation board slashed from the agency in December. The money in VDOT's mattress
Someone had slashed the tyres on my car.
The dress was slashed to the waist.
Blood had splattered onto every wall; Williamson's throat had been slashed open.
We're all aware that, while cutting-edge fashion can be a slither of mermaid sequins slashed north of the knicker line, it just as often means a tweedy suit, and a caramel leather blouson worn with shades.
Somewhere, up the trail ahead, a soldado will take aim, or a cabayero will charge down, and her beautiful body will be pierced, slashed, or shot. Fire The Sky
She feverishly grabbed a brush herself and slashed about delightedly in kalsomine. Little Miss By-The-Day
He slashed his rating from strong buy to reduce, and cut his target from Dollars 60 to Dollars 14.
He feinted in sixte, however, dropped his point beneath the parry that followed, extended his arm in quatre; raised himself and his blade into something resembling a stop-thrust targeting the left shoulder as the parry crossed, turned his wrist, and slashed Dalt across the left forearm. Prince of Chaos
Officials have curtailed bonuses for all noncontractual awards, which affected those who do not belong to bargaining units, and they have slashed paid overtime for examiners starting this week. Archive 2009-04-01
Thus we have Starbright republishing Fran Manushkin's "Baby Come Out", while Tricycle (a division of Ten Speed Press) has taken on the Remy Charlip books "Fortunately" and "Arm In Arm In Arm" -- these three are titles that Murdoch (AKA Harpercollins) slashed from the Morrow backlist catalog at takeover time several years ago. A role model in better clothes
Then we might no longer see BBC employees swanning off to the Genocide Olympics at a ratio of 1.46 for every British competitor – overmanning being one of its notorious faults and much of its internet presence which has little to do with its broadcasting remit being slashed. Archive 2008-03-30
she slashed her wrists
UK retailers slashed the prices of summer clothing
He's seen what looked like an impregnable 22-point lead slashed to just two ahead of me.
Second, Aids has slashed life expectancy in many countries, killing the most economically productive generation and leaving orphans and elderly.
He slashed the bark off the tree with his knife.
He picked up the whip he had slashed him with, happy to have sustained the damage to his ribs and leg.
In one example of aggressive rate-cutting, a unit of its commercial insurance division slashed its premium by 60 percent on some coverage for the Las Vegas McCarran International Airport.
With the nation in its worst economic crisis in a generation, budgets to maintain railway lines and other equipment have been severely slashed.
Stevens rode more confidently in the stretch, while Antley slashed away with his whip 17 times from the quarter pole home.
He slashed the Administration for its policies.
Even people in work can find their salaries are slashed, or routinely paid months in arrears.
Men chanting ruling party slogans slashed the tyre of a media car.
They have been slashed and burned and damaged beyond belief.
Meanwhile, the budget at the club has been slashed and the manager left because pledges were not kept.
Ashlee had finally chosen a dark mini-skirt and a black blouse with flowing, slashed sleeves that exposed her arms.
The museum was broken into last night and several paintings were slashed.
Another day six bags of flour had been slashed open.
Punk motifs, in particular, recur again and again, but only as hollow signifiers on pre-slashed and distressed clothing bought from boutiques.
Prices were slashed
Couched in first-class bureaucratese, the document lists the programs that city staff recommend be slashed.
He wore, inside out, a slashed T-shirt with a red swastika hand-painted on it.
The traffic commissioner's inquiry slashed the company's operating licence from 35 buses to 25 because of safety fears.
A single fork of lightning slashed the sky, hitting the tree in front of her.
He slashed his way through the bush.

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