slushy
Americanadjective
noun
Other Word Forms
- slushily adverb
- slushiness noun
Etymology
Origin of slushy
Example Sentences
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Reising wore skis as he and other officials measured snow in a slushy meadow at Phillips Station near South Lake Tahoe, where rains in the last week began to melt the snow.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
People were still using shovels to clear pavements, but it was now far more slushy rather than thick snow.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026
Instead, moving downward through Titan's icy shell would likely reveal additional layers of ice that gradually transition into slushy pathways and isolated pockets of liquid water closer to the moon's rocky interior.
From Science Daily • Dec. 20, 2025
The kind of bowl you crave after traipsing home through slushy streets with cold fingers.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2025
Across the wide blacktopped, slushy street, those two older boys had caught sight of me again.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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