Sentence examples for slaking from inspiring English sources
verb
Present participle of slake
With throngs of shoppers darting in and out of stores on Grafton Street and drinkers slaking their thirsts outside the pubs on side streets all the way up to St Stephen's Green, you could be forgiven for wondering, momentarily at least: recession, what recession?
The government promptly seized a slaughterhouse and a cold-store.In this section Slaking a thirst for justice Scarcity amid abundance Countering Chávez Reprints Related items Venezuela: Glimpsing the bottom of the barrelFeb 1st 2007Many businessmen and shopkeepers have a different view.
For example, THP, a drinks firm that started out brewing beer, moved into fizzy soft drinks and is now, like Vinamilk, slaking the growing thirst for healthy beverages.
No wonder that wonks now tend to prefer "negawatts" to megawatts as the best method of slaking the world's growing thirst for energy.Almost all blueprints for tackling global warming assume that energy efficiency will have a huge role to play.
Judging from the activities of the member states (China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), three principles define that new order: slaking China's thirst for energy, protecting member states as they tyrannise dissidents and curbing America's influence in the region.Driven by Chinese demand, energy business in the SCO, often nicknamed the "Shanghai Six", is booming.
But Russians' thirst for information, and the modern means for slaking it, are nowadays too strong to let the country slide all the way back to the tyrannical past.Still, the takeover of NTV is bad news.
Malignant narcissists may even kill to slake their thirst for attention.
The for-profit water business is based on continuous bottling to slake the thirst of consumers.
TO A parched mammoth or giant sloth, they must have looked heaven-sent: mirror pools of water waiting to slake a thirst.
Most importantly, perhaps 60% of African drinkers slake their thirst with homebrew rather than branded booze, so there is plenty of room to upgrade.
Domestic crops accounted for around 0.3% of the 1.8 billion bottles that British drinkers polished off last year; the 4m bottles made from grapes that were grown and produced at home would slake the country's thirst for less than a day.
