The phrase
"black sludge" refers to a thick, dark, and sticky substance that resembles thick mud or oil. It is often used to describe something dirty, unpleasant, or toxic.
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A passenger aboard a Long Island Rail Road train out of Penn Station went into the bathroom to wash her hands — only to have a stream
of black sludge come out of the faucet.
The batter looks like
thick black sludge, but once each piece of dough is rolled in Swedish peal sugar, it looks like a little snow ball.
Some of the most devastating pictures after big oil spills are of seabirds coated
in black sludge.
When I pulled the meat out, the sauce had cooked down into what looked
like black sludge.
The Niagara County Legislature raised the stakes on the Niagara
River black sludge spill by seeking criminal investigations on local, state and federal levels.
On December 22 a dike broke at the plant, sending more than a billion gallons of
toxic black sludge downhill into the ground, water and homes of eastern Tennessee.
Since the whole island thinks that Mario is the culprit, he must clean up everything that his doppelganger ruined
with black sludge.
As the
thick black sludge was being steamed from yards and roads in Mayflower, Keystone opponents — already critical of the carbon - intensive nature of the product and its extraction process — seized on the spill as evidence of the additional risks associated with oil - sands crude.
In 2010, after seeing crude oil hemorrhaging from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, fish and seabirds marinating
in black sludge, and Big Oil on the public pillory, the notion of gouging the deep ocean floor for fossil fuels seems reckless, if not criminal.
When Toki Tori's home is invaded by some kind
of black sludge, it's up to him and his two skills — Whistling and Stomping — to help save the day.
«The Roman Catholic Church, has become: like «the sinking oil tanker», that has sunk to the bottom, spilling - out «
black sludge» everywhere.
Paraffin candles begin at the bottom of an oil barrel; in fact they start as the grayish -
black sludge that has been rejected by the oil and gas industry.
Everything is shrouded in a kind of
black sludge, and frankly, it's depressing.