Example sentences for: slip

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

  • Teen-age girls shop in groups, but as women slip into middle age, shopping becomes a solo sport.

  • His bare body and long fingernails slip out, diva-like, from jaggedly stylized clothes.

  • The way to slip the accusation past this barrier of incredulity is to pose the idea indirectly, through satire--to savage your enemy with a smile.

  • However, Freud, I am sure, would have stressed how the slip reveals anxieties that all lecturers, including Rev. Spooner, harbor about addressing an audience.

  • Of course, Woody Allen captured this idea perfectly in Bananas , in the scene where he buys a pile of intellectual journals, and tries to slip a copy of a pornographic magazine in with them, only to have the shop owner holler, "Hey Harry, how much for a copy of Orgasm ?" Later, Allen sits on the subway, gazing at the offending item, which he has neatly tucked into the latest edition of Commentary , with an article by Irving Kristol on the cover (another favorite Woody Allen line, of course, comes in Annie Hall , when he quips that Dissent and Commentary have merged to form a new magazine called Dysentery-- I was probably one of the few 11-year-olds to laugh at that one).


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