Example sentences for: slipping

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

  • A catshank is a knot similar to a sheepshank but with an extra turn through the loops to prevent their slipping through.

  • Geniuses slipping into madness also tend to disrobe in public (I learned this from a volume on chess prodigies, who have a proclivity for disrobing on public buses).

  • Shortages and slipping wages sparked street protests this winter that forced the ruling socialists to hand power over to a caretaker government.

  • 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.

  • So Gillette is touting the rubberized boomerangs on its top and bottom as gripping aids, to keep it from slipping in your hands, even though the parallel ridges on the Sensor line probably work about as well.


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