Example sentences for: slipped

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

  • I did manage to acquire a catalogue or two on fishing flies— one, I recall, was from Leonard's—but the entire project slipped away from me to be replaced by other matters requiring more immediate attention.

  • I don't know whom Sarah Kerr hangs out with ("White Heat"), but Jimmy Cagney's stock has never slipped at all with my buds.

  • This inheritance most often arrived at the bedroom door in the form of a fair-skinned black person who had slipped over the color line to live as white.

  • A few weeks ago, on his public-radio program A Prairie Home Companion , Garrison Keillor spent several minutes conversing with the occasional character Larry, his fictional twin brother, who lives beneath the stage and harbors resentments about a show-business career that slipped away.

  • While you were still pondering whether society is really like a family, I slipped in the wholly invented "fact" that families take from the rich and give to the poor.


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