Example sentences for: slid

How can you use “slid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With interest rate hikes a foregone conclusion, the Dow dropped 2.6% and the Nasdaq slid 3.77% on Friday.

  • The WP --which puts the death toll at 330 despite an earlier deadline than the LAT 's--reports from the hard-hit town of Teziutlan, where at least 72 residents were killed Tuesday afternoon when a terraced block of concrete houses slid down a mountainside.

  • Last year, the company's earnings slid by 20 percent, while GM's and Ford's both rose; and its U.S. market share is just 15 percent.

  • However, some 50,000 years ago one side of it slid, violently, into the sea, leaving behind a gigantic bay with a semi-circumference of 25 km (15.5 miles) and cliffs of up to 1,000 m (3,280 ft).

  • Ottoman leaders had no interest in developing or investing in their dominions and, after the occasionally oppressive but often brilliant centuries of Venetian government, Crete slid back into the dark ages.


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