slough off

How To Use slough off In A Sentence

• None of this will persuade committed gay leftists to slough off their own political agenda, nor should it.
• The president wanted to slough off the country's bad image.
• The twenty-dollar gift may allow him to slough off the backwardness of the Old World.
• This body polish will help boost the skin's circulation and will slough off dead skin cells, leaving a healthy glow.
• The tessellates for the most part go into hiding, and if their skin is soft they slough off their ‘old-age’, but not if the skin is shell-like, as is the shell of the tortoise-for, by the way, the tortoise and the fresh water tortoise belong to the tessellates. The History of Animals
• This facial exfoliator uses smooth rice granules mixed into a creamy paste to gently slough off dead, dull skin.
• Family shrines are denuded as children of princes, chiefs, priests, village headmen, and elders slough off ancient beliefs and sell or burn a heritage they abhor.
• How unexpectedly comforting to slough off our brittle chrysalis of presidential detachment and invest so completely and uncynically in the lives of these people. Salon
• Another option is burning the top using electrocautery, then extracting larger cysts and letting the smaller milia slough off by themselves. Simple Skin Beauty
• Last week, Seagate announced plans to slough off close to 3,000 workers, hoping to improve its bottom line.