Example sentences for: slipper

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

  • After visiting centrally located Charlottetown, you can take three well-marked scenic drives around the island: Blue Heron in the center, Lady Slipper to the west, and Kings Byway to the east, corresponding roughly to the three counties, Queens, Prince, and Kings.

  • Lady Slipper Drive

  • A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .

  • Or an archaeologist in the Yucatan who flies her own plane and owns a supper club called The Fuzzy Slipper."

  • Another group of metaphors excluded is the names of natural species such as footman and emperor moths, lady's slipper, shepherd's purse, porpoise, etc.


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