Example sentences for: slip

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

  • For a man of his intelligence and lifelong habit of writing, such a slip of the pen--or tongue--readily suggests to a psychoanalytically trained eye or ear an ambivalence, if not a mental conflict, about the denial.

  • When someone noted that a lunar eclipse would be occurring then, too, I felt my skepticism slip a little.

  • For the French, in all walks of life, to render one sound for another is not a slip but an art, practised equally studiously in bistros as well as in the salons of nobles, academicians, and beautiful people.

  • Young men are being told to take responsibility for their sexual behavior and, should they slip, pay up on child support.

  • And as I look at the last slip in my random handful, again I encounter a classificatory conundrum:


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