slake

Done with the workweek, they are eager to slake their thirst.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2025

With his videos, Jackson believes he’s dispelling the assumption that people turn to social media only to slake their thirst for outrage.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2023

For what would have been the price of a ticket to the movies, customers also got bottomless soda refills to help slake what many expected would be a vengeful thirst from eating all that popcorn.

From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2022

That left me to slake my pie lust whenever one turned up at church potlucks or extended family gatherings.

From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2022

The fierce beast had made a kill; her jaws were bloody and she was coming to slake her thirst in the spring.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The lake that slakes the thirst of 40 million people in cities, farms and tribes across seven Southwestern states is down to about 30% of capacity.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2022

Zero Dark Thirty slakes a thirst for vengeance and leaves an aftertaste of gall.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013

Orange juice from National Juice Corp. slakes their thirst.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hungry, he munches a sandwich, first food in 33 hours, slakes his dry throat from the still half-filled canteen.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is a thirst which slakes itself to grow the stronger.

From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies

But betel chew—a mixture of areca nuts, betel leaves and slaked lime—is entirely different from datura.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Paan, a betel nut leaf with slaked lime, rose petal jam and mouth fresheners like cardamom and cloves, has fascinated South Asians for centuries.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2023

Roman concrete consisted of a mixture of a white powder known as slaked lime, small particles and rock fragments called tephra ejected by volcanic eruptions, and water.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2023

Cool without refrigeration, sweet with the taste of earth, nothing slaked the insistent thirst of the tropics better, according to some residents of Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2019

When his thirst was slaked, he pushed the reeds aside.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

Trainees practiced slaking lime, sieving, mixing and preparing mortar while working on the gate.

From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2023

When it comes to slaking Southern California’s colossal thirst for water, more and more local governments are searching their own sewer lines for a solution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2022

I drank deep at the Rick Perry well, slaking my thirst for a frontrunner as if I was some conquistador who’d stumbled upon a magic fountain.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2011

But Parton is a master of deflecting one-liners, slaking people's curiosity by leaving them laughing.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2011

It is better to do the slaking at home, furnishing the added weight of 32 per cent in water on the farm.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Alva Agee