Example sentences for: slipping

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

  • The LAT is alone in quoting a Moscow military analyst who thinks "the initiative is slipping from the hands of the worn-out military and into the hands of the Chechen rebels"; and in citing another analyst who thought it suspicious that Putin removed two of his most ardent supporters, also two of Russia's most popular generals.

  • While I'd love to be able to tell you that PBS was born in a Seven Days in May -type coup, and that Julia Child, Mister Rogers, and Jim Lehrer have been slipping us subliminal military propaganda since the beginning, Ledbetter doesn't develop his idea that the Cold Warriors co-opted PBS.

  • They are threatened by de-globalization, falling outside of the world economy and slipping ever further behind."

  • A great black comedy should be palatable but hard to digest, slipping easily down the gullet and then sticking in the gut.

  • For example, the PC may have been caught slipping unobtrusively into a restaurant or pub on his ground to scrounge--otherwise ponce or mump --a drink or a meal.


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