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    1. After the jokes came the razor slash, and we each comforted the other as the bruises and scabs healed


    2. 'They were so crazed those men, they would bite into their glasses and slash their thighs and forearms without uttering a sound


    3. It makes it easier for Alex to reach down to his belt, grab his hand gun by the butt and slash the barrel across his assailant's nose


    4. confines of Roman’s small living room slash bedroom before


    5. Sending his fast, mobile Orc battle groups deep into enemy territory to slash and burn


    6. With a slash of his broadsword he severed the chain


    7. knife and began to slash away, but hit a steel brace that had been placed around Seward’s neck following his accident, and this


    8. Launching himself off the porch like a missile and growling his fiercest, he landed on the dog’s head with a quick slash of claws across the face that sent the dog running back to the street, shrieking and squealing


    9. Though if I hadn’t had the hood on I would have seen Lt Harrington slash his swagger stick down as the rifles discharged their rounds on the way to the target


    10. The sjamboks (whips), I am afraid to say, were used to chase rioters and students around whilst taking a slash or two at them

    11. In an instant Reese was at her side, his sword high, taking out the soldier with one twisting slash, moving to protect her


    12. He bound up the long, jagged slash on Kay’s leg


    13. The knowledge that he could have ripped the life from Grindel's body with a single slash of his sharp claws made little difference to the respect he felt for the Preceptor's powers


    14. The first slash was blocked, the second brought him a


    15. Cherva shook his head, favouring the ragged slash that extended down the length of his snout with his paw


    16. “Let the doctor look at that,” he added to Mark, who now had angry red welts, big slash marks on his exposed forearms


    17. A big white house, and to the right, the darker slash of the forest


    18. The skinny apparition from hell giggled again, then bounded to the deck to slash at the air between


    19. The skinny one turned towards him with his knife and swung back his arm to slash at him while behind him, Raul reached the limit of his handcuff, extended his leg and, with the toe of a mud-caked shoe, shoved the throttle with such force that it buckled and wrapped around its end limit


    20. The man slashed his blade at my leg but it was a pathetic slash, I drove my heal down onto his face and he cut my leg, a thin light slice

    21. And those specially adapted arms of theirs can both seize and slash with fatal efficiency


    22. Or, had he serendipitously been made aware of the uncertain utility of a broken branch that offered a sometime protection, before he had learned of the utility of a stone to crack tough shells? Had he, in his industry to feed himself, used his hammer-stone too diligently, accidentally flaking off an edge that revealed the sharpness that he had been warned away from, among the many choices of stones to be found lying in certain places close to where water was to be found? Had he become aware of the danger to himself in the continued use of that broken stone when the flesh of his finger came into contact with that sharp edge? Had he now thrown it in the forlorn hope that this suddenly sharp edge would somehow slash into this enemy of his existence?


    23. Darrin killed one afterwards with a slash to the throat while Ash killed two, one with a stab through the heart, and the other with a slash to the throat


    24. The sunlight warmed the twin smiles, and the matching slash scars they both


    25. All lines beginning with two slash signs (//) are considered comments and do not


    26. With one swift motion, I slash at his throat with my machete


    27. So one night after he and I had been drinking, and he started back in taunting me, I cornered him in the third floor head, tried to slash his neck with the triangular business end of a church key, which proved difficult because he was 6’ 4,” I was maybe 5’ 8,” and he wouldn’t oblige me by bending over


    28. curred yesterday when the Senate moved to take up, a bill that would simultaneously raise minimum wage and slash taxes on inherited


    29. “I need a slash,” I said when she got back


    30. Some had felt the slash of the enemy’s sword and were being attended to

    31. Its claws slash into his arm as it falls and Ralph cries out at the pain, falls with it


    32. Together, they appear like a hillock of snow scarred occasionally with a dark slash of beak or eye, which glitters in the light


    33. Some had felt the slash of the enemy's sword and were being


    34. “When Did the Coast Guard Adopt the Slash for Cutters, Boats and Aircraft?” CGHO


    35. you don’t slash water out of the tub


    36. how? If I used my fists, I could slash my wrists and, since I was


    37. a giant cigar stuck into his slash of a mouth, he looked pretty sinister, but too


    38. But first I had to stop the flow of blood from the searing four-inch slash in my side


    39. A lucky slash of a butcher knife severed his jugular vein


    40. Without breaking eye-contact with his opponent Titus’s backhand slash smashed the projectile in midair before it could hit its mark

    41. Azeth jumped through the tent flap backwards like a frightened cat and left a large bloody smear across the tent from the deep slash that had been inflicted to his forearm


    42. Discarding the long lances into the mass of men, the horsemen switched to the long cavalry sword that each man carried, to hack and slash at the heads that peeked above the rims of their shields as they rode along the front ranks


    43. Luke had a bloody slash across his chest and his pale face glistened with sweat


    44. Tendulkar has incorporated several modern and unorthodox strokes into his repertoire, including the paddle sweep, the scoop over short fine leg and the slash to third man over the slips' heads, over the last seven or eight years


    45. Eyes slash at the sides of your head, they turn as you catch them whipping back to gaze on the other side of the empty bar


    46. With a practised slash the head was off, and a few seconds later the guts were on the bank—a meal for bandicoots and ants


    47. ‘You’d hardly tell us if you intended to slash our throats


    48. The method I have chosen is to slash the femoral artery of a pestering


    49. Then you slash the maintenance budget to zero


    50. This was because some bookmakers would slash the odds if he tried to put on big bets with more than one of them














































    1. two survivors of explosions that slashed long days,


    2. Desa screamed and slashed at the tentacles with the knife


    3. He slashed thru that with an eraser, shifted the equator and had the eye revolve with the bundle on the axis


    4. The Thane slashed


    5. Vietnam jungle watching as a seven foot gray alien slashed Carl with its three


    6. The humans sought to defend themselves as the creatures flooded their ranks, but instead of biting into the demons' flesh, their blades slashed and stabbed at emptiness, cutting harmlessly through the air


    7. The druid with the sickle grabbed his arm and slashed the back of the marine’s hand with the tip of the blade, twisting the sickle as he did


    8. The edge of the blade was covered in blood and Nathaniel could see that an upside down crucifix had been cut into both of the teenager’s chests, the stipes running between their breasts and the patibulum slashed across their lower abdomen


    9. Captain Hycron slashed her breasts


    10. All 4 of his tires are slashed

    11. He grabbed his eating knife and slashed it in the direction of


    12. He punched his stomach once more, followed by another punch to his face, and then slashed his right upper arm with his knife, just below the shoulder


    13. As Quintus spoke, the face of the little girl with the slashed throat returned to the Praefect’s mind, just as the acrid stench of smoke and burning flesh reoffended his nose and throat


    14. That no matter what he did to try to prove his worth, whether he donned armor or slashed a thousand dummies on horseback or on foot wielding two swords, he was not meant to be there


    15. Long, razor-sharp beaks and claws slashed out windows, ripped apart pillars


    16. Drawers were emptied, cushions slashed open


    17. With a lunge she slashed the serrated edge across her wrist


    18. ? She slashed again and again, trying to be sure it was she who was feeling this; that it was really she who was experiencing this


    19. ' Not - tried to kill yourself with, or - slashed yourself with - But cut yourself with


    20. Their journey through the Palace was one of mixed feelings of nervousness and awe at the wonders that lay sprawled wall to wall – paintings of battles and ceremonies of kings, queens, heroes, and legends; tapestries; polished armour standing with spears or swords resting at an angle; mirrors as tall as the thirty-feet-high plaster ceilings worked with golden cornices of grapes and vines or paintings of angels flying through blue skies with white clouds; large chests bound in brass or steel or gold; polished furniture of oak, pine, or redwood; tables; stands; dressers and cabinets; ornaments; artefacts; statues of red-and-blue marble or white stone or gold-and-silver, including dragons and other mythical beasts – all arranged in perfect order and all glistening and gleaming as a result of meticulous dusting and polishing from the hundreds of servants in black livery slashed with red and gold or red and blue who walked busily about the hallways amongst the guards, soldiers, and Guardians who stood at every corner and staircase

    21. She wore a dress of dark green silk slashed with silver across the breasts and thighs


    22. The Nymloc and Jacoulra preferred to move in huge wedges, formations of a sort where their front lines pushed, hacked, and slashed with their claws and fangs, while those behind waited to take over when the front lines were defeated


    23. He flexed the muscles of his left hand, feeling the burn as the slashed skin stretched beneath the new bandage


    24. Millicent raised her dagger and, in one quick swipe, slashed Alexia’s throat


    25. The cuts were deep, the blade grating against bone as the man slashed each wrist


    26. On his journey to Migaro Lake, Darkburst had come upon the track where the monsters roared and chased each other, but because it was the sun-cycle, he hadn't realised that these were the same stars that slashed their bright lights across the sky in his vision


    27. Roaring in rage, Grindel slashed Brokin with his claws, knocking him off his feet


    28. Another stream of fire slashed at the house on the north side of the field, and behind that, in the woods, more krumps and flashes of light


    29. He unleashed a barrage of gunfire before he slashed each and every member of the gang


    30. Langdon had been slashed and stabbed to death

    31. George lighted the sock, grabbed the knife from his teeth, and slashed the ocky straps that held the Golden Fleece onto the roof racks


    32. The dagger was before me and I lurched towards it, caught it up in my hand, and the bull man slashed his blades towards me and would have killed me


    33. But his knife slashed my face and still I choked, and his knife slashed again and dug into my wrist, and my hand went limp and useless, and he was away


    34. The man slashed his blade at my leg but it was a pathetic slash, I drove my heal down onto his face and he cut my leg, a thin light slice


    35. Rays of force stabbed and slashed but he avoided them all


    36. He turned right around and slashed me with his lance


    37. He chanted a command and slashed his hand through the air, leaving a blade-like arc of energy behind, which flew at Jerran


    38. The first slashed at him with a great surge of strength


    39. Her eyes blinked open, the light hurt more and more, her heart was pulled from her chest when her torso was slashed open


    40. I wondered how she could be injured when the fox monster hadn't made a move, but then blood started pooling around Mana's head and I realized she had been slashed along with the door

    41. On the wagon, Nicolas and the Major ducked and spun and slashed as the ravens flung themselves toward them


    42. He rounded the corner and slashed into the first black and green uniform he saw


    43. As lightning slashed in the distance, and the roads started to flood, bustling Boston residents splashed around to their cars and buses, hushing one another with silent whispers as they passed Levi and I


    44. I managed to find my knife and slashed at the seat-belt


    45. counsel” and expected my hours would be drastically slashed


    46. This wall did not succumb so easily as the first, and they slashed it for almost eight kilometers over the next minute, accelerating that whole time, before Povon managed to be the first of many to force her power into the crack


    47. And slashed the man’s arm


    48. As he ran, he realised his legs were bleeding as if slashed by glass, but he kept on running


    49. the tide slashed its way along the side of the hill only to slump back down and away, its energy


    50. Halfdan half-blocked it with the edge of his shield, but as the deflected blade swung down, it slashed Halfdan's leg










































    1. SAMANTHA: Here, you didn't like this? Now, is this better? And this? I can fix this one too! You happy now? And these are too provocative? Here! (She picks a pair of scissors and slashes more clothes


    2. Mine was white with red slashes through it


    3. All of these appeared as well to have suffered the wrath of a swordsman, two of the bodies even baring slashes to the neck


    4. The young man then comes running out from his hiding place and, using his sword, he slashes a long cut under the dragon’s left fore-arm


    5. She had changed into a pale blue silk dress with silver embroidery across the breasts and dark blue slashes across the thighs


    6. “This is Corn Harvest,” she said as she began stepping forward making sideways angular slashes through the air


    7. When Amaranthe woke, early morning light slipped between the boards across the windows, streaking the maze of hanging papers with slashes


    8. Three slashes across his lower back laid open the material, along with the skin and muscle beneath it


    9. the slashes with the Buster Sword, twisting to meet the onslaught


    10. Some analysts and commentators spread a litany of anti Yankee “buts”, sharpened slashes against the assaulted country and consoling and even cheering hand-clapping for the executors of such atrocity

    11. As he continued to gaze, Simon could see that great slashes and swathes of white floated in the blue


    12. The rough edge slashes his skin and draws blood


    13. and slashes mercilessly at his


    14. The boy had multiple slashes his penis had almost been


    15. That’s when I notice new, but fading slashes near


    16. Is that with two zeros in the middle, and shouldn’t there be slashes through them? As it turns out, the first answer is


    17. He had open sores and slashes throughout his body


    18. Having a date as yyyy/mm/dd on one page and another in the format of mm/dd/yyyy in another diagram will create problems, as will the use of slashes for the separator of one date and hyphens for another


    19. Such an economy coupled with huge slashes in war, defense, intelligence, government employment, and give-aways, cuts the government budget while raising the productivity in the market place


    20. True written representation of speech would require a system more difficult to read and write than all the dots, dips, dashes, letters, marks, strokes and slashes of dictionary entries

    21. His cape was now tattered and had a few slashes from battle, but it still held up


    22. But the lettering seemed ancient, more like slashes than letters,


    23. Cali, perched on her bed as usual, was wearing a comfortable pair of baggy purple sweatpants and an oversized gray long-sleeve T-shirt with black and white slashes across the front


    24. and slashes as Nangong Ping displayed several epitome techniques with the Fallen


    25. slashes to shred her overgrown nails apart


    26. With a leap, she launched several slashes down at the Hero


    27. His body was found in an alley drained of blood, and he also had animal-like slashes on his arm


    28. He was smaller than the rest, and slightly hunched over with angry red slashes on his upper body and face, with one that went right across his forehead


    29. Some with shot wounds; most with horrible cutlass slashes


    30. Life as she knew it and everyone she loved were destroyed with two quick slashes

    31. Cut four 4-inch slashes in center of crust


    32. He slashes his women


    33. Hook in hand, she slashes at his father’s face, barely missing his mouth by an inch


    34. Regarding this verse most of the bible teachers will disagree with me saying that here the prophet is talking of Jesus after he was ridiculed, after he was crowned by force with a crown of thorns, after receiving 39 slashes behind his back and after the Roman soldiers played havoc over Jesus, this is the appearance of him just before his crucifixion


    35. to the slashes and butt ends that Alfond used to try and slow me down, nonetheless, they were


    36. He launched a flurry of slashes at Eugenie but each time her sword deflected his blows


    37. She tried to put her hands out to ease the pressure on her scalp, but the rough terrain cut slashes into her delicate skin


    38. It is true that, in order to see if it was strong and fit to stand a cut, he drew his sword and gave it a couple of slashes, the first of which undid in an instant what had taken him a week to do


    39. Who would have said that, after such mighty slashes as your worship gave that unlucky knight-errant, there was coming, travelling post and at the very heels of them, such a great storm of sticks as has fallen upon our shoulders?"


    40. Master Pedro kept shouting, "Hold hard! Senor Don Quixote! can't you see they're not real Moors you're knocking down and killing and destroying, but only little pasteboard figures! Look--sinner that I am!--how you're wrecking and ruining all that I'm worth!" But in spite of this, Don Quixote did not leave off discharging a continuous rain of cuts, slashes, downstrokes, and

    41. They dashed at the grating and escaped by it, save one that, finding itself hard pressed by the slashes of Don Quixote's sword, flew at his face and held on to his nose tooth and nail, with the pain of which he began to shout his loudest


    42. The wind slashes across the field


    43. Its 594 holes were spread over every part of it: swarms of bullet holes, slashes from shrapnel, four cannon-fire gashes at least as large as a man’s head, the gaping punch hole beside Pillsbury’s turret, and the hole in the rudder, as big as a doorway


    44. A canonical name is a DN in which the domain name comes first, followed by the names of the object’s parent containers working down from the root of the domain and separated by forward slashes, followed by the object’s RDN, as follows:


    45. I knew what they were—self-inflicted slashes


    46. Notice that our quote marks are straight up and down and that our diagonal slashes are in the opposite direction of those used in Microsoft Windows®


    47. Someone had taken a knife to it and… Amir jan, the slashes cut this way and that way


    48. Suddenly they were both talking at each other in rapid rips and slashes of life story and love professions


    1. After a few minutes of slashing, the bodies become a body fort


    2. He whirled the club around and wailed it down on one of those slashing scimitars


    3. Oreo leaped on its back clawing and slashing it to the bone


    4. black boots suddenly went into overdrive, slashing and beating at


    5. From goodness knows where, he had produced a knife, lunging and slashing at her clothes


    6. "The sky was soft lavender, with slivers of silver slashing across it


    7. Butterflies in his stomach turned to razor blades slashing at his heart


    8. The being was still trying to cut her down, hacking and slashing as he sailed through the air


    9. A punch to the stomach, a punch to the face, another cut, this time below the previous one, followed by another slashing of the knife on his left thigh


    10. It was a relief from the large slashing pellets of the earlier downpour

    11. Their Swords of Light came slashing out of their scabbards


    12. She saw this girl slashing and slashing and her mouth opened to scream but out came a vile mixture of vomit and wine


    13. With amazing speed, Captain Larkey closed the gap between her and Fysto, slashing her cutlass at his throat, but he easily blocked it with his own blade


    14. Her opponent lunged again, slashing at her face


    15. Turning on his attackers, the exhausted badger lashed out at the lead rat with a slashing blow


    16. Thesa's black form continued to flit in and out of the enemy's lines, gouging here, slashing there, hard to see in the shadows cast by the tall walls of the labyrinth, but he could do little to stop his comrades from falling around him with horrifying regularity


    17. “Get out! Get out! Get out of my house,” she shouted, slashing the air next to his face with the knives


    18. None of them had blown over and they had stopped most of the glass from slashing her body


    19. In that horror that is so real I can hear the freezing Arctic wind slashing at the bedroom windowpanes


    20. Smoke poured out of a deep slashing scar in the earth, even as fire and rescue units pulled up to the crater’s edge

    21. The Pilgrim saw it too and sprung up like a coiled snake, his hand making a large slashing motion at the metal slab delivering a glancing blow and then rolling back down the slope of the mount, tumbling and coming to rest at what seemed like a safer distance from the metal slab


    22. But what was this? Murder? Or the victim of some slashing bear, whimpering for the release of death, tormented beyond endurance by the abundance of pain? The voice was so low that he could not locate it


    23. He roared an impossible roar, neither human nor bull, and I twisted the blade and cut it across, spilling his insides out and he fell and his blades were slashing at me again, the force of it throwing me to the ground and twisting my leg beneath me, a sharp pressure that I knew should be pain


    24. behind him, lunging and slashing with claws and fangs


    25. Confront the cheater! You might also take action by slashing the cheater’s tires or egging his or her house—all in the name of protecting your friend, of course


    26. rising helicopter, springing high into the air after it, slashing in


    27. There was a slashing sound, like someone tearing through paper, and the door suddenly split into two


    28. The cries of men and birds filled the air, mingled with the slashing of swords and axes and the dull thud of clubs and stones


    29. slashing the tires of 20 Republican get-out-the-vote vans on Elec-


    30. Not just blackness though, but one interspersed with crimson and orange and silver, slashing at his mind like knives

    31. The next moment, the fact of the net’s presence swoops back around me, slashing the darkness with red and flame


    32. The child cries out, but Gelahn pulls him closer, bringing the knife up and slashing through his hair with it


    33. Their suspicions were confirmed however, and he and Talia took off along the black wall, slashing it with GrimFang as they went and hearing the psionic screams of Sylvan wizards


    34. lucky!” He pivoted in a slow circle as he spoke, slashing the air in mock combat as he


    35. I dodged back, slashing at his arm, and my knife penetrated his coat at the elbow


    36. Stung by his wounds, with some of the desperate courage of his Highland ancestors Kinnard scythed at the man's unprotected legs, slashing him at the knee


    37. He drew his spear back to ward Manaea's next cut but it was hacked down, the sword slashing into his biceps


    38. It snapped at Thalia, slashing with its claws


    39. She dodged one set of slashing fangs and tumbled under another, weaving through the dragon's heads as she ran in our direction, gagging from the monster's horrible breath


    40. The water seemed to push me into the air and I catapulted over him, slashing as I came down

    41. Over and over she jumped on the serpent’s back, slashing with


    42. The hot stinging bite of a hand slashing across her cheek


    43. They parried the slashing claws and fangs of the dragon and countered with their broadswords


    44. Rodnik, Thorgrym, and Claude strode with vehemence into the fray, slashing with their weapons and claws


    45. The howls of the wolf-beasts melded with the slashing steel of the trolls


    46. Such was the case for Ben Frostberry, who tumbled through the horde of slashing Lykanthros to lance a pair of them from underneath


    47. The little turd flicks out a cheap stiletto blade, sloppily slashing instead of stabbing, as he should


    48. As Samantha fought, slashing the soldiers with her sword, Jane broke away from her husband and went in another direction, and so did the soldiers; half followed Jane and the other half followed Sam


    49. Their faces were covered in a colorful ancient tribal mask, and they attacked the ship with their stone weapons; banging and slashing away at it


    50. ―I could order my marines to start slashing and burning,‖ Francisco said







































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    Synonyms for "slash"

    gash slash diagonal separatrix solidus stroke virgule cut slice cut down flog lash lather strap trounce welt whip convulse jactitate thrash thrash about thresh thresh about toss slit sever wound abbreviate abridge alter

    "slash" definitions

    a wound made by cutting


    an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)


    a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information


    a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument


    cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete


    beat severely with a whip or rod


    cut open


    cut drastically


    move or stir about violently