sludge

How To Use sludge In A Sentence

• An extended communal deliquescence into the same subway sludge from which the torment arose.
• The sludge from the bottom of the swamp that the dredge hauls up dripping and oozing at least has substance: you can dry it out, look at it through a microscope, describe it, or flush it down the toilet.
• If you put your waste down the disposal, it flows, along with household sewage, to a plant where it gets separated into thick sludge and treated wastewater.
• Basically, most things that we can tax in this way have clearly defined negative externalities (you know, 1: 1,000,000 kids go retarded for each barrel of toxic sludge, so you slap a cost on that and pass it on to the guy who makes the sludge), and a clearly definite positive internality. Matthew Yglesias » The Case for Booze Taxes
• Last week's chemical accident in Hungary, when about 184 million gallons of caustic sludge and water burst from a storage pool of a metals plant inundating three western Hungarian towns and spilling into the Danube, is yet another reminder that accidents happen at chemical facilities. Elizabeth Hitchcock: In The Public Interest : How Many Reminders Do We Need Before We Act to Reduce Chemical Accident Risk?
• The solid sludge is siphoned off and burnt in a steam engine to produce enough electricity to process the next batch of waste. Times, Sunday Times
• However, this process is not selective, produces solid sludge for disposal, may have environmentally damaging effects of its own, and must be repeated to be effective.
• In future it will be necessary to pump this effluent, to aerate it and de-water surplus sludge from the treatment process.
• At her worst, she serves up a sludge of disparate data that do not cumulate to any discernible or persuasive argument.
• The black sludge from Venezuela is processed into a variety of petroleum products.