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Sentence Examples I know that Detroit is losing market share in auto sales, but how did they let the Motown sound slip out of their hands? Is it because the biracial comedians seamlessly slip into the characters and skewer racial stereotypes? As they slip into the quiet of the home, they both wonder if the place has been bugged. He removed her beige Roger Vivier pumps and white lab coat to reveal a denuded ballerina-pink slip dress. He'd jump up, get a fingerhold, and then dirt would give way and he'd slip back down. Jump up, get a fingerhold, slip back down. They attempt to straddle all issues and, consequently, when a slip occurs, the result is foot-in-mouth disease. While Nathan took his time walking toward the front office to get a tardy slip, he got a text message on his cellphone from his mother. The police chased the suspect for two days before he finally gave them the slip and vanished. Each chop contained a few small gnawable bones, and plenty of velvety meat that would slip right off them after a long, gentle braise. His employee status didn't entitle him to one, but Magdy on reception would slip him a key if Sabr greased him with a fifty. North American tubs are not grippable, so people can slip as they try to get in or out of the tub. Except her dad had a go last time, the last time she'd brought home a detention slip for him to sign. Ruricius gave Constantine the slip and returned with a larger force to oppose Constantine. Be prepared to slip and duck his jab to infight or to counter with a quick punch to the head or body. The two of them turn to each other and raise an eyebrow each, their signal to slip into alternating raconteuring. It was he who removed Peter Bowler with the help of a good catch at third slip. Susan shook her head and went away in grim silence to re-open a parcel she had sewed up for Jem and slip in a fine tooth comb. What's the use of cracking-on for nothing? Would you slip it now if you got the chance? A fault's sense of slip is defined as the relative motion of the rock on each side of the fault with respect to the other side. In practice, it is usually only possible to find the slip direction of faults, and an approximation of the heave and throw vector. Show More Sentences They are covered with a smooth, safe, nacreous layer to let them slip, pearllike, from our souls without real pain. This period of Welsh rugby would see the grip of the 'Big Four' clubs providing the bulk of national players, slip slightly. However, during deglaciation, the faults experience accelerated slip triggering earthquakes. Ferry boats often dock at specialized facilities designed to position the boat for loading and unloading, called a ferry slip. If the ferry transports road vehicles or railway carriages there will usually be an adjustable ramp called an apron that is part of the slip. Too often an OC tends to slip into a Mary Sue mould, but if it's well written, I have no problems with an OC as a protagonist of a fic. Welsh was known to slip away after training to secluded roadhouses where he would eat his favourite meal Chicken Maryland. In 1966, Jones's popularity began to slip somewhat, causing Mills to reshape the singer's image into that of a crooner. He was an eloquent speaker, and his slip of the tongue was a one-time error. As time passed, exhaustion and despair led people in the sea to give up and slip underwater. Thrust is generated by pushing their body against the water, resulting in the observed slip. The boundary conditions dictate no flow across the coastline and free slip at the bottom. The larger mesh only caught the larger fish, allowing the smaller, younger ones to slip through. African Red Slip lamps were made in North Africa, but widely exported, and decorated in a red slip. After a long while, a Roman messenger was finally able to slip through the Belgic lines and get word of the uprising to Caesar. Gloves were powdered for more than a century to allow doctors and surgeons to slip them on more easily. Under the skirt is a slip designed to fluff the skirt and make the waist look smaller. At one point he encountered another force of 6,000 Chinese, but was able to slip around them under cover of fog and darkness. The Tang pieces are not porcelain however, but rather earthenwares with greenish white slip, using cobalt blue pigments. At every hundredth pace the Pundit would automatically slip one bead. Each complete circuit of the rosary thus represented ten thousand paces. Show More Sentences First, a slip opinion is made available on the Court's web site and through other outlets. Logically a younger layer cannot slip beneath a layer previously deposited. I told my writers... by the end of the term they'd have to bring in either a rejection slip or a check from a publisher. The editor... returned the manuscript with a rejection slip. Anthony sent it off elsewhere and began another story. The rejection slip was so tactfully worded that he felt kindly toward the editor. It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and he did not intend it that way. Snoek need not be scaled. The scales are very fine and usually slip off during handling. The teacher accepted her tardy slip and allowed her to come into the classroom after the bell. Pop singers, such as Britney Spears, slip vocal fry into their music as a way to reach low notes and add style. The time has come, writes Germaine Greer, to burn our Wonderbras and slip into something more comfortable. The waxed ends won't slip as easily, yet will actually come apart more easily when time comes to store the rod. It once connected with the River Mersey at Runcorn but has since been cut off by a slip road to the Silver Jubilee Bridge. In the colder climates of the Diaspora, women wear leotards, tights or exercise pants under the slip lappa to keep the body warm. It is treacherous in winter, as when it freezes over it creates an icy patch, with lethal exposure should you slip. I gripped the iron bed with hands om which I had written the price of a limited slip differential. A DC motor is usually supplied through slip ring commutator as described above. As the motor accelerates, the slip frequency becomes lower, and more current is in the interior of the winding. In a WRIM, the rotor winding is made of many turns of insulated wire and is connected to slip rings on the motor shaft. Operated in this manner, the slip losses are dissipated in the secondary resistors and can be very significant. Another way of saying this is that it has zero slip under usual operating conditions. Show More Sentences The amount of slip on each side of the anticline increases from the hinge to the inflection point. The M6 crosses the River Lune at this point and unless the bridge had been made wider, there was no space to build a longer slip road. All lighting columns from Junctions 10 to 14 have now been removed completely, apart from some slip roads. The ATWP had anticipated that a second runway would be operational by 2011, but this date continued to slip. Windsor Castle continued to be favoured by monarchs in the 15th century, despite England beginning to slip into increasing political violence. Eventually Garnet let slip a crucial piece of information, that there was only one man who could testify that he had any knowledge of the plot. In fact, for lack of any serious competition in the 1920s, the LSO allowed its standards of playing to slip. Langer played some blistering strokes off Giles' bowling in particular, but survived a sharp chance to Marcus Trescothick at first slip. Peterson was dropped to the canvas twice, although the first time was counted as a slip instead of a legitimate knockdown. And I'm more frightened of letting it all slip and reaching 60 and finding I've done nothing. Bismarck's last few years had seen power slip from his hands as he grew older, more irritable, more authoritarian, and less focused. Royal power and finances also started to slip, as Henry was persuaded to grant many royal lands and estates to the Lancastrians, thereby losing their revenue. At the end of each session of Congress, the slip laws are compiled into bound volumes called the United States Statutes at Large, and they are known as session laws. To solve this problem, coins were often left with a trustworthy person, and the merchant was given a slip of paper recording how much money he had with that person. The designs in the slip appear to have been created through a negative resist technique, in which a lighter-colored underslip shows through a darker overlying slip. This is a slip of four places since 2010, primarily due to major developments in other parts of the UK and a relative lack of investment in Nottingham. He finally let slip that they plan to take over the business. We were talking about Natalie when I let slip that she was pregnant. New Zealand new cap Mitchell McClenaghan had Richard Levi caught at slip for a duck, bowling a wicket maiden at the start of the South African innings. Special vehicles included sleeping cars, restaurant cars and slip coaches. Show More Sentences Due to modern technology, many more people and much more information will not slip into oblivion, contrary to what happened throughout history until now. In practice, the tension is set such that the bobbin can slip, but with some drag, generating the differential rate of rotation between the flyer and the bobbin. It took just nine minutes to nose ahead as Ben Pugh's cut back fell appetisingly for the revitalised Adam Walker to cosily slip a low shot past Jimmy Severn. As the big birthday loomed, the mum-of-two made a jaw-dropping appearance at the Bafta awards in 2000, wearing the wispiest, turquoise slip of a dress. One way or another I'm gonna lose ya, I'm gonna give you the slip. Contrast this with an induction motor, which must slip to produce torque. Some provide easy and relaxing walks through the countryside, but others are narrow, crumbling ledges where a slip could result in serious injury or death. Believing Tromp's squad was attempting to slip past his right wing, Oquendo impetuously ordered his flagship to turn hard to starboard, hoping to board Tromp's flagship. North of junctions with the B6241 Preston ring road, junction 1 of the M55 is a roundabout on the A6 connected by slip roads with the motorway above. Also, the northbound exit slip to the junction was reduced to one lane instead of two to reduce traffic on the small roundabout at the west side of the junction. If you are going to slip the schedule, make it a big slip and make it early in your endgame effort so that your stakeholders can respond and adjust around you. Because dropouts actually increase a school's performance, critics claim that administrators let poor performing students slip through the cracks. Scharner then headed a Dorrans free-kick against the crossbar, with Tchoyi unable to turn in the follow-up as the Baggies saw their hopes of salvaging a point slip away. The children managed to slip by when the patroller was looking away. It took with it an area of sown wheatfield which remained sufficiently undamaged for the wheat to be harvested in 1840, when the slip was a popular visitor attraction. Marcus Trescothick fell first ball after tea, edging to slip to become McGrath's 500th victim in Test cricket, and Strauss fell in similar fashion three balls later. Other types of fabrication include press moulding, transfer moulding, pultrusion moulding, filament winding, casting, centrifugal casting, continuous casting and slip forming. If a noble book suggests the need of a noble binding, consider a chemise inserted into a tastefully decorated slip case, leaving the book in its original state. Well after the pile of ego-boo I got in the Oct. issue I just couldn't let it slip by without telling you what I think of this much heralded issue. But when a friend accidentally let slip on Twitter the time and location of the event, many of Sam's 'Callafans' planned to come along at 5.30am to take a peek. Show More Sentences A bikini... tends to slip and slide a bit in the surf. But for a die-hard sun worshipper, a two-piece suit is the next best thing to nothing at all. I sipped at a drink and smoked cigarettes in a silence so profound that I could hear the susurrus of the blindfold's soft fabric rustle and slip between my fingers. To turn out, place the dish over the mould, and invert both together, when, if the caramelling has been complete, the pudding should slip out without any difficulty at all. Further, some household contacts with symptoms may not have returned with the contact slip, leading to underascertainment of contacts examined and possible TB cases detected. Examples from Classical Literature You have just permitted the cleverest rascal in the state to slip through your butterfingers. Old Barnaul managed to slip on the ice and fall into a hole that had been broken by the horses' feet. Fouts, with a slip of paper in his hand, beckoned him from the door of his private office. The night after, while I lay huddled in my shirtcloak and blanket by the fire, I saw Cuinn slip out of his bedroll and steal away. A slip would have sent them, belly up, down the toboggan-slide, with a drop into an unknown depth at the end. The bes thing to do is to slip a knife in a place where it would do the most good. No boning to do, and we can slip away with some eats on the side and have a grub-fest. I was really the hero, but the printing devil had made a slip, so instead of applauding you booed. When the upper side is done, slip a bread knife beneath, and turn them over. I'll take the path that leads past several briar patches, and if Mr. Fox runs for me I'll just slip into a briar patch. When dey sont me to town I put on britches an' stuffed de tail o' my slip in 'em so's it pass' for a shirt. We'll give them the slip yet, and hang that butcherly thief-taker upon his own gibbet. If it is just abaft the windlass, it will be convenient in case you wish to slip your cable. One of these is the probability of the aortal tissues pressing upon the weapon relaxing their hold and allowing the blade to slip. The aramaean tribes never let slip an opportunity of encroaching on the southern frontier. She had not meant to say that so baldly, and she was sorry for the slip as soon as the words were out. I am walking on a street and slip on a banana skin, and in falling, knock down a passing pedestrian. Come on, barkeep, an' slip us another round of this here inebriatin' fluid. I followed the watercourse till I came to a spot where a great slip had cleared a straight space down the mountain side. More and more often he would slip over to Pastor Boehme for a talk. Show More Sentences Let me out now and I'll slip down the boreen, and not see them so. Truckers can only avoid the delays if they slip border officers a backhander. Occasionally a man would slip, or be pulled over in the grip of a baboon. Is there a back door where we can dash out and give them the slip? The bowline is a loop that will not slip after the first grip. Now slip the bight of the lanyard over your neck, and follow me. This was to slip out under cover of the night, cut the HISPANIOLA adrift, and let her go ashore where she fancied. The albacore, he noticed suddenly, had ceased to slip through the chute. A slip of blue paper fluttered to the floor as she unfolded it. Along the lower edge of each strip was pasted a slip of white paper. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of slip? Words that rhyme with slip What is the past tense of slip? What is the plural of slip? What is the adverb for slip? What is the adjective for slip? What is the noun for slip? Translations for slip Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words sliotar Slinky slinky slinks slinking slinkiness slipcase slipcover slipknot slip of the tongue slip-on slip-ons 4-letter Words Starting With s sl sli