Example sentences for: slipped

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

  • A few days later, "Metro" columnist Clyde Haberman slipped more detail in under the guise of discussing whether the mayor was spending too much time at the office.

  • 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.

  • In an age when Ronald Reagan has slipped into the haze of Alzheimer's disease, when Susan Faludi writes movingly of males clinging to stereotypical notions of machismo as they're laid off their factory jobs and symbolically robbed of potency, it can put a lump in your throat to watch Schickel building--like the hero in Field of Dreams --a shrine to the Dad whom so many elements of the culture have come to undervalue.

  • The era of newspaper romance slipped away in Los Angeles (as it did everywhere else).

  • As for homophobia: I saw, on the contrary, a sophisticated gay/camp worldview being slipped in through the back door.


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