Example sentences for: slip

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

  • As the war went on, speedy and camouflaged contraband vessels were built to slip past the ever-increasing Federal patrols.

  • Another of dad's embarrassing failures might cause me to slip back into the alcoholic fog that marred my childhood, had any such fog actually existed, which it did not.

  • Joe Cook's adopt (for adapt ) might have been a mere slip of the tongue; but when NBC's Los Angeles reporter, David Bloom, said on 30 July 1996, Bob Dole came not to censor Hollywood but to... and the context demanded censure , he cannot be allowed the same excuse—he has been guilty of too many bloopers.

  • The cells were then covered with a cover slip protected with clear nail polish.

  • --Every day is Valentine's Day when you slip on the Friskmasters.


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