Example sentences for: slid

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

  • Thousands of laborers worked to pull the block to this site from the quarry 48 km (30 miles) away; ingeniously, the operation was scheduled for deepest winter so that the load could be slid along specially iced roads.

  • Sometimes two pieces were sewn up the sides and across the shoulders, with slits left for head and arms, to be slid on and belted or sashed--very basic, a few sizes would drape to fit all.

  • But even there, he recollected, the walls shook and a telephone slid off his desk as the twin towers of the former World Trade Center imploded and collapsed.

  • 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.

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


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