Example sentences for: slip

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

  • But even as I was saying, "Help, save me from the dinosaur," I was simultaneously thinking: How am I going to wrap up that column today, the kicker I have stinks; should I roast a chicken for dinner or not because it's not worth it unless I go get the good chicken and that's at a butcher store 20 minutes away, and if waste 40 minutes going to a butcher store, how many of those red shelves will I be able to paint today; did I forget to give Zoe that permission slip she needed this morning; is my skin starting to look old; do I hear the dog throwing up a sock in the kitchen; maybe I should just end the piece by referring back to the lead, but then I always do that so ...

  • The Ocean Hawker II tug moored at Market Slip has been converted into a bar.

  • I find myself inventing words from time to time and even getting them into print when they slip past weary or tolerant copy-editors, perhaps even on their merits.

  • As the standards slip in the marketplace, so they move on down the slippery slope in the education place, with older, wiser, more dedicated, better educated teachers gradually but ineluctably replaced by those who have not a scintilla of enlightenment regarding the meaning of contrary-to-fact condition, comma splice , or double genitive .

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


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