Collocations for "slit"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "slit" in context.
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slit
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [horizontal, vertical, diagonal, narrow] slit
- a [skirt, dress, jacket] slit
- stuck her [arm, head, leg] through the slit
- a slit in the [wall, curtain, fabric]
- a slit down the [side, middle]
- cut diagonal slits across the [pastry, pie]
- cut slits to [allow, let out, air, keep]
- make a slit [under the bud, in the stem]
- cut a slit below the [gap, hole, opening]
- make a slit for a [window, door, frame]
- a slit made by [a knife, an arrow]
- [light, sunlight] shone through the slits
- [peer, look] out through the slit
- a slit on his [neck, wrist, throat]
- slit [his throat, your wrists]
- her [throat] was slit [open, down the middle]
- slit my [finger, hand] on the [knife, corner, nail]
- slit open [an envelope, a parcel, a robe, the door]
- slit [the envelope] open with [his thumb, a knife, a letter-opener]
- slit the [door, window] open
- slit her eyes [in the summer sun, to look at them, in confusion]
'slit' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):