Example sentences for: slipped

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

  • Stuckert's tables show that during the 1940s alone, roughly 15,550 fair-skinned blacks per year slipped across the color line--about 155,500 for the decade.

  • And one can't help but think Friedman was also making a suggestion by passing along what he's heard about what really happened to Nigeria's dictator when he died suddenly last June: three prostitutes slipped him poison during a tryst, perhaps by putting it in his Viagra.

  • Consumer Reports ranked it above even the vaunted Toyota Camry (which slipped a bit, but remains 20 percent better than average). ...

  • Somerset Maugham was a good and careful grammarian but now and then he slipped.

  • This was supposed to guarantee Republican presidential supremacy forever--or at least until the name "Ronald Reagan" had slipped into the wells of history.


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