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Example sentences for: slipping

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Should we be sad that James Cagney is slipping from memory, or was it inevitable that his star would fade?
Also, a piece charts the decline of California's Homestead High School, the alma mater of computer whizzes Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak: Thanks largely to California's education cuts, the state's once-magnificent public schools are slipping.
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).
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.
Then a third player acts as arbiter and decides which one wins (in this case, a butterfly, because the butterfly flaps its wings and sets into a motion a chain of events that ends with Rupert Murdoch slipping on a banana peel and falling into a cement mixer).