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Example sentences for: slipping

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

Should we be sad that James Cagney is slipping from memory, or was it inevitable that his star would fade?
He captures the show's mix of darkness, humor, and humanity--without slipping into the criminal-with-a-heart-of-gold cliché.
(The girls were slipping out to mail their entry to a "Win a Date With Bobby Sherman" contest.)
photos suggest the same thing, with nonthoroughbred models lolling and crumpling their clothes as they gaze straight at you, a strap slipping down, unless they're poised in fragile tinseled drapes and staring from under dream headgear.
How could a wealthy, productive, sophisticated country have gone from enviable growth in the 1980s to stagnation in the '90s, and now be slipping into a downward spiral of recession and deflation?