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How to pronounce sludge in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms goo, gook, goop, guck, gunk, muck, ooze, slime
Type of matter
Has types sapropel
Type Words
Type of precipitate

Examples of sludge

sludge
If the wall collapses, 500,000 cubic meters of toxic red sludge could spill out.
From the cnn.com
Residual fitness sounds like some nasty sludge at the bottom of my drink bottle.
From the guardian.co.uk
Her property has been covered in thick sludge for the third time in nine months.
From the stuff.co.nz
She is being held to induce her father to permit the company to dump its sludge.
From the usatoday.com
Video footage showed sludge as high as 6 feet, burying porches and garage doors.
From the edition.cnn.com
The basement water and sludge covered the retail furnishings and items for sale.
From the chron.com
Synagro had just lobbied for a $1.2 billion sludge-hauling contract in the city.
From the freep.com
The toxic sludge, known as tailings, remains radioactive for thousands of years.
From the newscientist.com
Now, the company that owns the Ajka plant is denying the toxicity of the sludge.
From the theatlantic.com
More examples
  • The precipitate produced by sewage treatment
  • Any thick, viscous matter
  • Sludge was a comic book series from Malibu Comics, set in the Ultraverse. It was created by Steve Gerber, Gary Martin and Aaron Lopresti. Sludge ran for only twelve issues, with one special: Sludge: Red X-Mas. A second special, Sludge: Swamp of Souls, was planned but never completed. ...
  • Sludge is a 2005 documentary film by Appalshop filmmaker Robert Salyer chronicling the Martin County Sludge Spill that was an accident that occurred after midnight on October 11, 2000 when a coal sludge impoundment in Martin County, Kentucky, broke through an underground mine below, propelling ...
  • Sludge is a fictional character in the Transformer toy line and fictional series. Sludge is a slow witted but powerful Dinobot.
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  • A generic term for solids separated from suspension in a liquid; A residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes; A sediment of accumulated minerals in a steam boiler; A mass of small pieces of ice on the surface of a body of water; to ...
  • Term for the waste material found in sump pump pits, septic systems and gutters.
  • The fiber and other components of papermaking that are recovered from wastewater treatment processes.