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How to pronounce slews in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dozens, gobs, heaps, lashings, loads, lots, oodles, piles, rafts, scads, scores, stacks, tons, wads
Type of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity

Examples of slews

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Bradley says he plans to keep growing slews of onions as long as his knees hold out.
From the kansas.com
The launch cuts across the swells, slews down their slopes and crashes down into the troughs.
From the nzherald.co.nz
After a little while we were way deep into the back of the slews and I was getting kinda scared.
From the ocregister.com
The car slews almost uncontrollably, despite its all-wheel drive.
From the usatoday.com
Sara reached out to slews of manufacturers and lawyers to help her patent her idea and create a successful prototype.
From the forbes.com
Granted, slews of R.V.'s embrace tasteless graphics.
From the wheels.blogs.nytimes.com
In Louisville, the key players in that category are Del Frisco's and Pat's Steakhouse, both of which have slews of passionate fans.
From the courier-journal.com
Hubble also needs to know its location as it completes one observation and slews across the sky to acquire its next target.
From the sciencedaily.com
Projections about future job numbers depend on slews of counterfactuals about technology, policy, domestic demand, and on global markets.
From the economist.com
More examples
  • Batch: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money"
  • Swerve: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
  • Skid: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
  • (slay) murder: kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
  • A spacecraft is either spin stabilized or 3 axis stabilized (The very first "Sputnik" was an exception, it was wobbling).
  • The Slew is a multinational electronic music project, consisting of Canadian DJ Kid Koala, American DJ Dynomite D, and Australian rock musicians Chris Ross and Myles Heskett, formerly of the band Wolfmother.
  • A large number; To rotate or turn something about its axis; To veer a vehicle; To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time; To pivot; To skid; to move something (usually a railway line) sideways; To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit
  • (slewed) Somewhat drunk
  • (slay) To kill, murder; To eradicate or stamp out; To defeat, overcome; To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter