(v. t.) The dross, or recrement, of a metal; also, vitrified cinders.
(v. t.) The scoria of a volcano.
Example Sentences:
(1) I don't want to go on slagging groups like U2 or Simple Minds that aren't worth the words.
(2) In the Netherlands both Portland cement and blast furnace cement (slags from blast furnaces with about 30% Portland cement) are used for concrete.
(3) Meanwhile the Police Federation's attempts to extract retribution for the disputed p-word, in the form of Andrew Mitchell's sacking, have been roundly slagged off by former Labour minister Chris Mullin , who last week described the organisation as "a bully", "a bunch of headbangers" and "a mighty vested interest that has seen off just about all attempts to reform the least reformed part of the public service".
(4) As Miliband prepared to deliver his speech, whose contents were trailed over the weekend in an interview with the Mail on Sunday , Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London, rounded on politicians who are "slagging off" a sector that is "crucial to the British economy".
(5) Mineral wool insulation, which is made from Tennessee phosphate slag, and commonly used insulation, which is made from blast furnace slag, had similar concentrations of these radionuclides.
(6) Quantities of land-disposed or stored residuals, including slags, sludges, and dusts, are given per unit of metal production for most primary and secondary metal smelting and refining industries.
(7) However, this hazard is not associated with any index of exposure to slag wool itself.
(8) Relatively thick rock and ceramic fibres (median greater than 1 micron) induced tumours, but slag and wollastonite fibres did not, probably because of their better solubility.
(9) The radioactivity levels of coal ash and slag in Hong Kong are about the average values in other countries.
(10) The US president might be all mouth in slagging off the Russians behind their backs, but Vlad was confident he was no trousers face to face.
(11) Long-term inhalation studies using several animal species and dust preparations of fibrous glass, rock wool or slag wool have produced little evidence of pulmonary fibrosis or pulmonary tumors.
(12) Mr Cameron can hardly slag off Mr Clegg as "not fit for government" when they will have spent five years sitting in the same cabinet.
(13) Who cares?” tweeted former congressman Anthony Weiner, and slagged off Philadelphia as a “2nd tier city”: Anthony Weiner (@anthonyweiner) Honestly, who cares?
(14) Concrete blocks made with phosphate slag had enhanced 226Ra and 228Ra contents when compared to ordinary concrete block.
(15) The present study is concerned with the pulmonary pathological changes in the rats following intra-tracheal administration of sintering dust and vanadium slag separately.
(16) Now I'd love to stay and chat all night, but unfortunately I have to correct all the typos in this report, insert gags where appropriate and remove all the bits where I slagged off Steven Gerrard, who is about to lift the Champions League trophy for Liverpool.
(17) Something sticks in the throat about having the word “lad” associated with a rapist, or an abuser, or even someone who might see fit to call me a slag.
(18) 2.09pm GMT In an unusual turn of fate, the front-page headline in today’s Bild is basically “Guardian live blogger slags off German Olympic uniform”.
(19) I have lost count of the number of times I have been called a slag for refusing to accept a man's advances or to respond to street harassment.
(20) This is a band that doesn't want to be slagging off the biggest pop station in the country.
Slog
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Rebuilding the party and restoring its integrity was a hard slog.
(2) If the prime minister does not invite a contest, then the right thing is for the key cabinet names mentioned above to throttle any further coup attempts, to rally round him, shut up about his many weaknesses, and slog on, in the best spirit possible.
(3) I realized that win or lose, there are people out there that see what I’m doing and follow it as a role model.” Although he slogged vigorously across his home state in the pursuit of every last vote, the final 10 days of Rubio’s campaign more closely resembled a farewell tour.
(4) "In pure movie terms, however, it's also a bit of a slog, with an inordinate amount of exposition and lack of strong forward movement.
(5) Culture site the AV Club dismissed the show as “a dreadful, toothless, dead-eyed slog”.
(6) 4.55am BST Spurs 95-95 Heat - 5:00 remaining OT Graham Parker (@KidWeil) @HunterFelt Hang on...I just had a scrappy midfield slog to write about.
(7) Athletes, many of them not well remunerated by the standards of modern sport, would deliver the career defining moment they had slogged through months of monotonous training for in a moment of heart stopping adrenaline, broadcast to the world in patented hyper-real style.
(8) You won’t know till you’ve slogged up several floors, got lost twice, been flagged down by precisely the person you were trying to avoid, and finally arrived at an apparently electrifying session that nonetheless finished ten minutes early.
(9) Instead of mounting grand offensives designed to seize more territory from insurgent control, the British mission was focused on the long, slow slog of counterinsurgency – holding on to areas they already had.
(10) In another era, an injury of that nature might have wrecked a footballer’s career and, for Shaw, it has certainly been a long slog to reach this point where he is back in United’s team, playing with distinction once again and possibly about to resume his England career.
(11) The women I met last week had been slogging away all summer.
(12) But for me, any excitement generated by this announcement is tempered by the simple fact that it’s still only 26%, and it was a slog to get here.
(13) He started in business with a £5,000 bank loan in the 1960s, "slogged" through three recessions, and increased the size of his company Caparo from revenues of £14,000 to £625m today.
(14) "In the past it was such a slog fighting against something that people didn't even know existed.
(15) Normality has not yet returned even though we are in the recovery phase, which is going to be a long slog.
(16) Bringing the brand back from the brink was a hard, expensive slog involving buying back 23 licences Burberry had sold to allow other firms to put its check on everything, including disposable nappies for dogs.
(17) And the length also makes this feel like a bit of a slog.
(18) Anything less will be a failure to deliver on the instructions of the British people.” Hammond, who campaigned for remain in the referendum and has been arguing in cabinet against the idea of Britain leaving the EU without a deal, said the result of the general election had shown that the country was “weary after seven years of hard slog repairing the damage of the great recession” .
(19) A side that built its success on teamwork, structure and a rare spirit of togetherness might have to reinvent themselves unless their title defence is to descend into a long old slog.
(20) I was ferociously ambitious and I kept my head down and slogged my guts out.