'sloughs' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb meaning to shed or discards something, usually skin or a layer of something. For example, "Snakes slough their skin in the spring."
Stands of sawgrass thrived in an imperceptibly undulating landscape of ridges and sloughs, interspersed by teardrop-shaped islands of trees in a pattern that followed the current.A teeming world depended on the tiny changes of elevation.
That infrastructure, however, is now creaking and must be fixed.At its heart is the Delta just south of Sacramento, the largest estuary on the west coast, where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and their tributaries meet and flow through a vast web of waterways, sloughs and levees and eventually out through San Francisco's Golden Gate.
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Around 60% of the tree islands have been lost; so has the old landscape of ridges and sloughs.
At each solar maximum, the corona sloughs off the magnetic fingerprint of the previous cycle by pushing it to the poles.
Mr Strauss-Kahn was the candidate with the greatest chance of bringing the Palaeolithic French Socialists into the modern age.The danger now, as Socialist alternatives line up, is that the party sloughs off its modernising aspirations and reverts to type.
The 350,000 acres (140,000 hectares) of wetlands comprise sloughs and winding channels, with 50-odd leveed island tracts in their midst.
The Pantanal's vast sloughs and watercourses support an abundance of flora and fauna, including the giant pirarucu, a fish that is herded into enclosures like underwater cattle pens until needed for food.
If the scab sloughs off or is removed after about a week, a layer of reddish granulation tissue will be seen to have covered the cut edges of the subcutaneous tissue.
The Missouri Plateau has numerous potholes, lakes, and sloughs.
Grouse, prairie chickens, and other game birds live in the uplands, and millions of geese and ducks breed in Manitoba's sloughs and ponds.
