| Germany and Japan have, in some measure, sloughed off their post-1945 pacifism. |
| Almost the whole of Europe has sloughed off its addiction to the notion of royalty. |
| Each exhibit suggests that some of the provincialism that has characterized the Canadian art world in the past may someday be sloughed off. |
| It cannot begin its own work until it has sloughed off all its superstitious regard for the past. |
| Since independence, the yoke of French influence has not entirely been sloughed. |
| The Indian side appeared famished for most part of the tournament, an outfit that seemed to have sloughed off its competitive edge. |
