How To Use Slit In A Sentence

The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
Other inscriptions discovered are Sanskrit mantras transliterated in Tulu script.
For the use of men they have the "merkin," [FN#410] a heart-shaped article of thin skin stuffed with cotton and slit with an artificial vagina: two tapes at the top and one below lash it to the back of a chair. Arabian nights. English
Shortly after leaving the outskirts of Adonis the car slithered down a sloping piece of ground, teetered over a low bank, and splashed logily into water. The Past Through Tomorrow
It was a fitting gown with long slits, black in color and had shiny small stones cut into tiny roses embroidered at the hem of the long skirt.

First, they were creeping molds that slithered forth from the ocean onto land...and then they stood upright, supporting their globby substance by means of calciferous scaffolding, and finally they built machines. Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006)
Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed and the players slithering on the greasy surface was a common occurrence.
It was pitch black inside the dumpster with only a slither of light entering through the crack of the lid.
En route to the recital she was cranky, giving me the cold slitty eye-beam treatment in the rear view mirror.
Teigue was about to repeat the motion, when one of Marin's eyes slitted open sleepily.
This morning somebody shouted out 'caiman' and alligators along the banks slithered into the water. Peeg and Brie (opening of a teen novel)
Opening his eyes to slits, he brought his wrist in front of his face to see the light flashing on his wristband .
The grinning, slithering jackanapes is reportedly going to concentrate his sales pitch on the U.S., suspecting that we Brits would sooner chew our tongues than buy his book when it is published on Sept. 13. Boycott Blair's Book!
Among the suicide cases, 61 hanged themselves, 12 took insecticides, one slit the wrists, another one jumped to death, while one committed suicide by self-immolation.
From somewhere behind me, I heard a slight plop, a slither and then a sudden weight on my bed.
Transliteration from Russian is standardized, but transliteration from Kazakh offers several options Kazakh is written with Cyrillic letters, but at least two additional characters, so the possibilities in English multiply. Languagehat.com: FAJITAS AND FALAFEL.
Or the slithers of beef sirloin marinated in chilli and lime, stir-fried with vegetables and noodles.
I'm finally alerted by a creepy slithery, slippy step nearby on soppy, dew-saturated fallen leaves.
Last year, Siver discovered a new genus of diatom (he has discovered 60 new species over the past 20 years) that sheds light on the origin of the "raphe" -- a slit that appears along the long axis of pennate diatoms. TreeHugger
A tightish slither down at the far end of Four Ways Chamber would have bought you to the same place.
They slit his throat.
For the many children participating it was a good opportunity to get close to mitten crabs, shrimp, fresh water mussels and even eels, as well as to a lot of deliciously slithery mud!
Stock villains tend to be swarthy, towel-headed terrorists or slit-eyed, buck-toothed guerrillas.
A snake slithered across the grass.
To create a medieval feel, the towers will have arrow slits and cars will be able to drive under the archway beneath a raised portcullis.
A heavy slithering came from somewhere close and I wished they weren't so quiet, I wished they'd scream in their fright or bang into something, to take my mind away from their oily leglessness. The Mandarin Cypher
They crept and crawled, oozed and slithered from the clay, prickly spiders and sneaky snakes and pesky lizards darting from th ... read more crafts A Michoacan tradition: the needlework artistry of Hermelinda Reyes
The challenge now is the marathon of a 14-mile nonstop stretch of waves and holes that slithers through the curvilinear canyon like a snake on crack.
His nostrils flared, and his lips thinned to a slit line.
This is not going to help if you want to move forward and climb the ladders - all you'll do is slither down the snakes! Why Am I Afraid to be Assertive?
Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's collections, the exhibition features more than fifty instruments from small personal types such as panpipes and courting whistles to larger forms played at performances heard by the entire community, such as the exquisitely carved temple drums of the Austral Islands or the imposing sacred slit gongs of New Guinea. NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art
But no titbits of food - well, maybe just a couple of slithers of sliced chicken.
Viro heard a slither, and a hiss, and looked above; from the rafters, a furred snake hung, its tail coiled upon a rotten wooded sign, the whitish paint flecked and gone.
That funnel is just the way they hold the turkey when they slit the throat. “For One, You Need A Little Bit Of Levity In This Job” - Swampland - TIME.com
We literally see rivers of blood, disembowelings, slit throats, and dismemberment.
What argufies so many words?" said the unfeeling Captain; "it is but a slit of the ear; it only looks as if you had been in the pillory. Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
If anyone was looking for the transliterations of the archangelic names, they're as follows.
I crouched down without making a sound and started slithering like a snake through the bushy tomato plants that Mr. Russo had tied up on stakes.
Slit the roll with a sharp knife.
When a deadly snake, a black krait, slithered into my nursery and my ayah [Indian nanny] ran screaming from the room, her ankle bracelets chattering in panic, it was Yah Mohammed who calmly killed the krait.
You'd be discovered and your throat slit quicker than you can say Bob's your uncle!
They say somebody slit her throat.
I cut strips from the bottom of the sarong and sliced slits in the waist of the bikini bottom.
The horses slithered down the shallow bank and onto the glassy surface at a rapid trot, but the black was mistrustful of the insecure footing and jibbed skittishly.
But in the recent mild, rainy weather they have been able to slither and slide all over the ground in broad daylight. Times, Sunday Times
Within four hours of arriving, he had cut his throat from ear to ear, including his jugular, and slit both wrists.
You watch as the waters begin to protrude, becoming a mass of hysterically delocalized pillars slithering upwards, outwards, onwards towards the shore. Faraday's Wave Garden
The crystal eyes were lidless; in lieu of a nose, there were two sockets that plugged into the nostril tubes of the silver face; the mouth, little more than a slit, was slightly open, exposing tattooed teeth.
The feldspar statue keeps intent, slit-eyed watch over a tomb.
Back tire slurping and bouncing wildly, I kept going, finally slithering to a halt when I saw Jeff and Joe crouched under a rock outcropping.
The essential parts of a spectroscope are the slit -- an opening perhaps Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86
A week or so later, the snake slithers back into the wild - broadcasting a signal to researchers about where and how it lives.
As his observers craned to watch, John slit open the dog's belly.
To be certified as halal an animal must be slaughtered by a Muslim butcher who recites a prayer over the animal and then quickly slits its throat.
A snake slithered across our path.
Or put a researcher in the car and have him slither about until I'm ready to come back? Times, Sunday Times
The memory of Anthony and me standing in front of that mirror, both of us horrified by my fatty, slitty eyes, is still quite painful. Unbearable Lightness
According to the account given by Labillardiere, confirmed by the information given by Mr. Hekmeyer, the figures are often craunched by women and children, to the latter of whom they serve as dolls, toys, and even money-boxes, as shown by the slits formed in the upper part of the larger objects, which are usually hollow. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
RESEARCHERS have found a new species of taipan snake slithering in the outback. Archive 2007-03-01
Not even bothering with the numerous buckles, Neva pulled a knife from her pocket and began slitting the leather bindings holding Roy to the gurney.
Below these, thousands of tiny fry with bulbous blue eyes were swept aside as we finned on deeper into the rocky slit.
The forward ring of the receiver is slit and then threaded for a fairly large Allen screw which effectively clamps the barrel.
The top layer of the fabric is slit, exposing the layer beneath or allowing a small piece of colored cloth to be inserted.
In the face of this, official Ottawa dithers and slithers, hoping questions about Arar will go away.
Two shopkeepers who saw the attack said the two soldiers killed had their throats slit after being ambushed in traffic.
If there were too much light she would naturally see the reptile slithering up and down the bell-pull, and make too correct an identification.
It may seem tame in this context to devote time and technical skill to throwing up perfect spheres of glass in a vacuum and timing their passage up and down past two pairs of slits.
_depth-gage_, _F_, adjusted by a screw, and a _slitting cutter_ with stop, a _sliding section_, _B_, with a vertically adjustable bottom, the _auxiliary center bottom_, _C_, to be placed when needed in front of the cutter as an extra support or stop. Handwork in Wood
There were two pockets which we could not enter: these he called his fobs; they were two large slits cut into the top of his middle cover, but squeezed close by the pressure of his belly. Gulliver's Travels
Rhea's movements were noiseless and careful as she slithered down the ventilation duct.
For me ‘the strong, silent type’ conjures up images of slit-eyed Clint Eastwood, mumbling a few well chosen syllables before dispatching some low-life to oblivion with his enormous gun.
What is happening behind those gaslit windows? Times, Sunday Times
Prior to seed germination, the pericarp of a dispersed fruit opens to form a small slit near the stylar end.
A small green snake slithered across the wet road.
If he tires of their company, he can quickly slit their throats or snap their necks, dispatching an opponent.
The icy blast of polar weather that swept in from Canada saw planes grounded, ferries hit and cars slithering off roads. The Sun
Far below, the forest rose on either side of the river gorge, but to reach that we would have to descend a winding path alongside a steep-sided valley cut by a stream that slithered under fallen trunks. Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland
Crystal drew it as fast as she could, eyes narrowed to slits in anger.
They crept and crawled, oozed and slithered from the clay, prickly spiders and sneaky snakes and pesky lizards darting from the dark wet dough, turtles swimming to its surface, bug-eyed devils rising from the mud, all brought to life by the magic touch of Antonia Cruz Rafael. Antonia Cruz Rafael: the ceramics of Ocumicho, Michoacan
From high atop the pillar three glowing slits revealed themselves, and a blatting sound came from within. The Search For WondLa
Then, above our heads soared three eagles, and not long after, an adder slithered calmly between our feet.
Make a small slit in each chicken breast and push in a piece of garlic.
There is no policy of transliteration: the same Bengali word is spelt differently in the text and the notes.
I could already see that look in his eyes, something slithery and pink that hints of alcoholic tendencies.
Many ornate stone bridges stretched across the streams, the little light reflecting from them streaming into the narrow slits which served as tiny windows.
It was a sea of horrible toga tank tops, and those double-slit skirts that resemble loincloths.
They say somebody slit her throat.
The shark was threshing wildly now as it was brought alongside, crimson blood gushing from its mouth and the open gills slits.
Although he hit his shot straight at the goalkeeper it slithered and stotted off limbs and the sodden turf before trundling over the line.
What sort of strapless and/or little black, possibly drapey, goddess-cut dress with a slit is she wearing now? Jennifer Aniston Keeps It Classy In Valentino At U.K. 'Horrible Bosses' Premiere (PHOTOS, POLL)
Before I proceed to show how from the prosodical unities, the moved and the quiescent letter, first the metrical elements, then the feet and lastly the metres are built up, it will be necessary to obviate a few misunderstandings, to which our mode of transliterating Arabic into the Roman character might give rise. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Her throat had been slit at the jugular, a trail of blood over the floor from the opening spurt of blood.
In a moment, the forest was quiet again, and the flying and creeping things slithered and crawled to view the carnage.
Crimp edges of dough together with fork tines and cut several slits in strudel with a small sharp knife.
A variety of snakes twisted and slithered across his shoulders down to his fingertips as if they had a life of their own.
Wore a mackinaw, was wringing wet to the skin, had one arm in a sling made of a wild grapevine, face slit up in ribbons as if he'd been fighting bears, limped as if he had stringhalt. The Shagganappi
After diffraction of the beam, the monochromatic radiation was exited from the lower part of the slit and transmitted by another light guide.
The sign hamza also represents a glottal stop and is transliterated in the same way.
Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed and the players slithering on the greasy surface was a common occurrence.
I slitted an eye to glance at it and then closed that eye again.
While designing the achromatic objective lens for a telescope, he saw the spectrum of sunlight as it passed through a thin slit and the dark emission lines. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 5-7, 2010 | Universe Today
But no titbits of food - well, maybe just a couple of slithers of sliced chicken.
Higher in the Sheinwoodian Slite Group and in the superjacent Homerian Mulde Formation, morphotype C appears which has a distinctly enlarged first denticle succeeding the fang.
His tiny eyes were slitted, as he squinted at Adam in the dark.
But give the boring ones with just a simple leather band across the facing (called "penny loafers" because of a fad in the U.S. in the 50s, where hip young 'uns would insert a penny into a slit in the band) a miss and instead opt for slim ones with a leather or metal ornament that adds some character and dressiness. What the well-dressed foot is wearing
An old object was Juguna: curly hair (resembling grey astrakhan), toothless gums, with the thick underlip projecting an inch or more, and long, slit-distorted ears, the lobes of which rested comfortably on his shoulders and carried on their points some heavy copper ornaments. The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
A small green snake slithered across the wet road.
So when the rain came down and the tracks got all muddy and slithery, it was a good time to put the X Trail through its paces.
Like Junya Watanabe's brown ruched leather dress £850, Browns , they often have draping, pockets, slits or wraps. The Perfect Party Outfit
The plecopteran fauna was studied by means of slit traps and hand net during the summers of 1982-1987.
The word "kumbaya" is believed by many music historians to be pidgin English - and a transliteration - for the prayerful plea to God: "Come By Here. News
The skirt is slit to the hip on one side.
Most of our sources about the 'apiru are in the Akkadian language, and the Akkadians didn't have that sound, so they transliterated it with a "hah" sign. The Common Origin of and Split Between Arabs and Jews - An Interview with Professor George E. Mendenhall
The snake slithered away.
The double-slit is a fundamental, irreducible quantum phenomenon. A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
Snaps appear on the hip of an A-line skirt, or straight down both sides of the front panel of a skirt to elongate or shorten the slit.
The burners should be union jets -- _i.e. _, burners with two holes at an angle to each other -- not slit or batswing, as the latter are extremely liable to partial stoppage with dust. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
One of them has feathered wings, another a catlike appearance complete with a triangular nose and furry black tail, three have webbed fingers and gold, slitted eyes.
I can understand the reasons why Andy is being spoken about because he is different," he revealed, adding "Apart from his size he is also a left-footed player" lest we might conclude that this difference involved living in a fridge, communicating only via the lyrics of The Carpenters and slithering around on his belly after dark like a blindworm. Will Andy Carroll prove the difference that destroys the planet?
Several looks were "perforated" with big hollowed-out circles as well as sweaters with (transparent) stripes and slits. Cynthia Rowley: Predictably Unpredictable
These creatures can't run away, they slither on the ice. The Sun
The mainland has diminished to a thin line of green and purple trees, and, closer by, neighbouring islands are underscored by slithers of sand and backed by dense jungle.
As its signs represent native syllables (such as sa and ke), TRANSLITERATION almost invariably produces phonetic change.
Where is the fun of slithering into layers of lacy surprises for your partner if he already sees the make, colour and size of your smalls?
There are pictures galore of many different futharks, transliterated and translated inscriptions, some discussion - you name it.
The snake had dislodged its fangs, slithering after her with sureness of the ground it moved upon, then climbed up a tree.
Edgar pulled a pocketknife from his pocket and quickly slit through the tape.
Hills were slit, valleys spanned, well-paved highways forced undeviatingly through the moors and mountains of the Celtic perimeter. The Lessons of the Turnpike
He looked down to see the reptile slithering away between his knees. Times, Sunday Times
The crawl soon gives way to a small collapse chamber where a slither through a narrow slot leads to cave of slightly more civilised proportions.
It was a small space with a narrow vertical slit window which admitted some natural light.
Vents, the slits on the back of the jacket, are meant for ease of movement.
She sat down behind the lowered persienne, and every now and then lifted her eyes from the page and peered out between the tiny slits. The Convert
Her tangerine-colored gown went down to the floor and had a slit on the side that went up to her thighs.
It is nibbled cheerfully by slugs and snails, which slither away in great content. Times, Sunday Times
After losing money in his orchard business for three years Chang became one of the spidermen mending slits at the top of the slope and building water channels.
Traditional screening includes slit-lamp examination of the eyes and serum ceruloplasmin level measurement.
His astoundingly ugly head, with a pair of pale eyes and a slit-mouth under a conical red thatch, was thrown forward above his barrel chest, making his long face seem both inquisitive and moronic.
There were a few days of rain and wet snow that made the county road a slithery mass of greasy mud. Bird Cloud
The financial firm belongs to a class of companies that promises, for its shareholders, a big dollop of jam tomorrow but only a slither of dry toast today.
One of the most famous artists to ground their work in the phoneme is the Dadaist Kurt Schwitters, whose "Ur Sonata" demilitarized language after World War I by softening and subtilizing phonemes through the performance of a score. Schwitters 'work coincides with the Russian Futurists', whose made-up language "Zaum" used phonemics to tap language's universal source, and thereby its glossolalic, transliterative potentials. Undefined
The second cocky khaki Kicky-Sack sock plucker I sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick.
We made two slits for the eyes and a perpendicular line for the nose.
In fishes and some amphibians, the slits bear gills and are used for gas exchange.
So traumatized by what he saw in China, and so ashamed of being a human, the man returns to his village thinking he is a snake, slithering on the ground, hissing at former friends and family.
This geometry should be taken into consideration when specifying a lens or telescope to image onto the slit, to prevent vignetting.
In addition, a medieval style archway will be put up across Churchgate from January 11 until January 25 and it will be built complete with turrets, a portcullis and arrow slits.
Her nippulars were peculiarly mammarial whilst her nethers were singularly slituarial Daily Rotten
He slit open the envelope with a knife.
The pipes have slits of 35-40 mm long and 0. 5-0.8 mm wide perpendicular to the pipes axes and at intervals of 20-50 mm depending on the type of soil. 2.1. Open ditches
That night my nephew went to the Numen, the Proud One, and slit the throat of a young oreodont, saying - The Shadow of the Torturer
Twisted her other behind her back, all while avoiding the wriggling kicks and thwarting the clever maneuvers designed to slither out of even the tightest holds. Earl of Durkness
Logan glanced at the body and sure enough the throat was slit at the jugular with a trail of blood staining the wood floors, along with a missing ring finger.
If I understand the transliteration right, the vowel quality would also be closer to American English cat than cot.
Make a small slit in each chicken breast and push in a piece of garlic.
There are three different stitches that can be used for securing the edge of eyelets or slits: the basic overcasting stitch whip stitch, blanket stitch and buttonhole stitch. Archive 2009-10-01
The sign hamza also represents a glottal stop and is transliterated in the same way.
Extensive slit-like cuts in this region, when deep enough to lacerate the keratogenous membrane, are sometimes followed by the growth of a fissure in the horn, and what might almost be termed a permanent sand-crack results. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
A small green snake slithered across the wet road.
They were cunning and trustless, narrow - slitted and heavy-lidded, at one and the same time as sharp as a ferret's and as indolent as a basking lizard's. The Jacket (Star-Rover)
Two peónes darted through the slits in the barrera and pulled him toward the railing, blood trailing behind him in a long black tail. Carlos The Impossible (Part 2)
Not trusting herself to necessarily remain on top of the cliff standing, she dropped to her stomach and slithered toward the edge of the cliff.
For dessert, I had a bitter chocolate soufflé, which was slit open at the table so that hot chocolate sauce could be poured inside it.
The End Of Summer is warm and slithery, borne on slurred drums and elastic pings (perhaps the sound of tent pegs pounded by rubber mallets?)
The gatehouse is approached via a brick barbican, a defensive outwork furnished with arrow slits and end turrets.
The expensive item slithered off his back like a shed snakeskin.
He stood up painfully and slithered across the slimy floor, slipping on the fish that had scattered from the broken boxes.
This slithery reptile can be found in the less developed parts of the estate, but face to face encounters such as that provided in the tour are rare.
Rolling clouds of black smoke blotted out the sky while brilliant sheaths of flame slithered out of every window.
The 'squatty' eyed the gesticulating Manarkan and spoke, in a beautifully modulated deep bass voice, to a supple, lithe, pantherish girl with vertically-slitted yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a long and sinuous, meticulously-groomed tail. Masters Of The Vortex
It is nibbled cheerfully by slugs and snails, which slither away in great content. Times, Sunday Times
On the few occasions when they did meet, she wore a niqab, which covers all of the face except for a thin slit for the eyes. Islam and imagination « Anglican Samizdat
Make a small slit in each chicken breast and push in a piece of garlic.
However, handling errors among the backs saw a couple of early and valiant moves end in loss of possession, as the ball slithered and slipped through fingers.
When a deadly snake, a black krait, slithered into my nursery and my Indian nanny ran screaming from the room, her ankle bracelets chattering in panic, it was Yah Mohammed who calmly killed the krait,’ she explains.
These creatures can't run away, they slither on the ice. The Sun
If he was confused at my flippancy, he didn't show it, and I was a little disappointed when he merely crossed his arms and slitted his eyes in amusement.
Remove the scales from the sardines with the back of a knife, slit each fish along the belly and scrape out the innards.
Especially if you are, like me, yellow of skin and slitty of eye and the person asking the question is someone you've known for a decade. Christmas: time to cut the family apron strings | Leah Borromeo
slithery eels
Murphy moved forward with a one-two with Black, the slither proceeded to McAvoy.
Most of the inhabitants could afford to buy extra water rations and keep plants, which they proudly displayed sprawling out of the windows and slithering up the pale, smooth walls of their homes.
First of all, the lambs had all had their throats slit in the night.
Her foot slithered almost frictionlessly back and forth. Rendezvous With Rama
Why can't they slither back under it and let the rest of us enjoy the great day in peace? The Sun
With its mandarin collar, snug fit and side slit, the qipao -- called a cheongsam in Cantonese -- is no longer daily wear, but it lives on as a look for special occasions. The Qipao Keeps Up
Make a small slit in each chicken breast and push in a piece of garlic.
Adverse possession isn't only about slithers of land centimetres wide, occasionally it can be about bigger parcels of land.
Only two narrow slits in the wall allowed in the light from beyond the room.
I look down and see a long snake slithering past us.
‘It's a place of peace for me,’ Carlos says as a black snake slithers by.
If the remake, with Nicolas Cage as a rogue cop named Terence McDonagh, commits the sin of entertainment, it's redeemed by a sense of life's contradictions and distinguished by surreal flourishes that include a pair of iguanas, slithery witnesses to Terence's mania. 'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel
It was a vibrant red strapless dress with a large slit up the right side.
On the way back, I almost slid down the hill, past mansions behind old red-brick walls overgrown with wisteria, hedges of this and that, little verandahed weatherboard cottages and stark new houses with vertical slit windows, pre-rusted metal doors and plantings of cordyline and dianella. Archive 2006-12-01
A couple of hours later we saw the culprit by our pond - a 4 ft dugite slithering across the lawn.
The last process is that of slitting, which is done by women, with a sharp cutting tool. Rides on Railways
Simon took another drag and theatrically slitted his eyes as he opened his mouth slightly so the smoke seeped out in tendrils.
The snake slithered toward Jessica, bearing its fangs with a hiss.
I took the liberty of slitting the shrink-wrapping and sampled the notebooks. Gerald Sindell: A Book Worth: How Much Will You Pay For One That Will Change Your Life?
SF-QZJ Slitter rewinder band, supporting the use of washcloth machine, according to the required length, width, slitting automatically sharpening, an engage in activities platen device.

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