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Slash in a sentence

Slash meaning

  1. A slashing action or motion:
  2. A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.

Synonyms of Slash

cut gash cut down virgule solidus terra firma solid ground ground earth dry land land lesion wound slice diagonal

Slash vertaling naar Nederlands

schuine streep

Using Slash

  • The main meaning on this page is: A slashing action or motion: | A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip. | A slashing action or motion:
  • Useful related words include: cut, gash, cut down, virgule.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: schuine streep.
  • In the example corpus, slash often appears in combinations such as: to slash, slash the, and slash.

Context around Slash

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 9 start, 7 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Slash

  • In this selection, "slash" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, double, forward, alternative, stars, alternative and pop stand out and add context to how "slash" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a double slash as a and a double slash for division. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "slash" sits close to words such as barbecue, breached and cleanup, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with slash

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Congrats to the happy friends slash lovers slash exes, though! (10 words)

A Glasgow community organisation was forced to slash its opening hours. (11 words)

The "Slash" stars main The slash stars are O-type stars with WN-like lines in their spectra. (18 words)

A passionate opponent of the plans to slash 75 per cent of the traffic from Academy Street that have divided the city, Mr Murray’s disappointment that neither city councillors nor officials heeded traders warnings led to the formation of the alliance. (42 words)

A new sustainable business start-up, established just a few months prior to the Covid-19 pandemic is making a huge impact throughout the events sector as it partners with venues and organisers to slash plastic pollution from single use cups. (41 words)

Finned drums were commonly used on jack pine–spruce cutovers on fresh brushy sites with a deep duff layer and heavy slash, and they needed to be teamed with a tractor pad unit to secure good distribution of the slash. (40 words)

Congrats to the happy friends slash lovers slash exes, though! (10 words)

Example sentences (20)

Rini described himself as an “r&b-slash-alternative-slash-pop-slash-rock” artist, and listeners believe he has a similar sound to the likes of Prince, Miguel and Usher.

Slash zines eventually became their own sub-subgenre; in many fandoms you rarely saw slash and non-slash stories appear in the same zines.

Usher and Slash also took the stage during the performance, with Usher in an all-white streetwear look while Slash wore his classic all-black with a studded hat.

Congrats to the happy friends slash lovers slash exes, though!

A comment may appear anywhere in a program where a space is permitted and is preceded by the characters forward slash, asterisk and is terminated by the characters asterisk, forward slash (i.e. /* This is a comment.

Finned drums were commonly used on jack pine–spruce cutovers on fresh brushy sites with a deep duff layer and heavy slash, and they needed to be teamed with a tractor pad unit to secure good distribution of the slash.

In the areas where " slash-and-burn " is practiced, switching to " slash-and-char " would prevent the rapid deforestation and subsequent degradation of soils.

The double slash is used by Rexx as a modulo operator, and Python (starting in version 2.2) uses a double slash for division which rounds any decimals down to the nearest integer.

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The Fraktur script used throughout Central Europe in the early modern period used a single slash as a scratch comma and a double slash (//) as a dash.

The name "slash" comes from the their printed spectral type having a slash in it (e.g. "Of/WNL" citation ).

The "Slash" stars main The slash stars are O-type stars with WN-like lines in their spectra.

After announcing a plan to slash nearly 7,000 jobs, Disney is reportedly instructing managers to propose budget cuts and put together lists of employees to be laid off in the coming weeks.

A Glasgow community organisation was forced to slash its opening hours.

Also, consider the role of the Federalist Society, Leonard Leo’s $1.6 billion debate society–slash–“wine locker at Morton’s steakhouse” outfit.

Although it is a hack-and-slash game, they still have to be well timed, with quick dodges to successfully clear the game.

A new Clean Power Payment will save households up to $1,200 on their energy bills, every year, and slash carbon emissions.

A new heat pump rollout looks set to hand UK households a £1.5bn energy lifeline and slash bills.

A new sustainable business start-up, established just a few months prior to the Covid-19 pandemic is making a huge impact throughout the events sector as it partners with venues and organisers to slash plastic pollution from single use cups.

A parliamentary inquiry will look into the health risks of vaping and how many young people are using e-cigarettes in a bid to further slash smoking rates.

A passionate opponent of the plans to slash 75 per cent of the traffic from Academy Street that have divided the city, Mr Murray’s disappointment that neither city councillors nor officials heeded traders warnings led to the formation of the alliance.

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Common combinations with slash

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "slash" in a sentence?
An example: "Rini described himself as an “r&b-slash-alternative-slash-pop-slash-rock” artist, and listeners believe he has a similar sound to the likes of Prince, Miguel and Usher." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "slash" from authentic English texts.
What does "slash" mean?
Slash means: A slashing action or motion:
What are synonyms of "slash"?
Common synonyms of "slash" include: cut, gash, cut down, virgule, solidus, terra firma, solid ground, ground. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "slash" in Dutch?
"slash" translates to Dutch as: schuine streep.
How many example sentences with "slash" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "slash", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.