Examples of “slows” in a Sentence

noun An old folk name for milk sickness, an illness once common in frontier communities caused by drinking milk from cows that had eaten poisonous white snakeroot.

• Settlers feared the slows because nobody knew why their cows made the milk dangerous.
• A doctor in the old settlement finally learned that the slows came from a plant in the pasture.
• Pioneer diaries sometimes describe entire families struck down by the slows after a bad batch of milk.