Definition of "sloughs" []

• Plural form of slough. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of slough. (verb)

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• "In the low spots on the floodplain, ponds of water called sloughs pronounced “slews” are holdovers from the last flood."
• "The beds of those old streams may have left shallow depressions called sloughs pronounced “slews” between the ridges."
• "The bass have moved up from the lower bays and into the delta sloughs, which is where Canevaro spends his fishing days, in Montezuma and Broad and Suisun, to name some."