Example sentences for: slippery

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

  • A computer re-creation of several bus crashes by the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that school-bus seats are too flat and slippery for the belts to do any good.

  • Analysts see this as a slippery slope, so that pretty soon Intel will watch its margins driven down to a sliver.

  • Here is part of his description of female sexual arousal, for example: "When a woman is sexually aroused, several of her glands begin to secrete a lubrication that bathes the vulva area with a slippery mucous, easing the entrance of the penis into the vagina."

  • The civil libertarians (Floyd Abrams) warn of a slippery slope: If Philip Morris' commercial speech is constrained, limitations on the New York Times ' commercial speech are likely to follow.

  • Although a few critics find it too heavy with "only-in-the-movies claptrap" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ), most praise the film because "it never slides down that slippery slope of sap that you keep expecting" (Jami Bernard, New York Daily News ). (Find out about the young-adult novel that is the basis for this film.)


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