| The game started quietly as both teams came to terms with slippery conditions. |
| I shuffle my feet to make the shot, my grip on the racquet slippery from my perspiration. |
| It is a work of perfect weighting that shows that Hodgkin can still patrol the slippery frontiers between abstraction and representation. |
| They were slippery with mud, filled with rabbit burrows and gopher holes and rather high up. |
| He raps with a slippery undulating velocity that few can match without descending into jibber-jabber or spluttering. |
| Getting funding, however, is more slippery than jellied eel in a pie and mash shop. |
