SLIP in a Sentence
Learn SLIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
273 example sentences for SLIP, such as:
1. We managed to slip away unnoticed.
2. There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
3. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
4. The ship tried to slip away in the darkness.
5. I held the little printed slip to the light.
2. There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
3. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
4. The ship tried to slip away in the darkness.
5. I held the little printed slip to the light.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SLIP
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slip
n. a young and slender person
v. move out of position
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 He saw that he was followed, no doubt, and used this means of giving me the slip.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2 It was all that the girl could do to keep herself in the saddle, yet a slip would mean a terrible death under the hoofs of the unwieldy and terrified animals.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
3 Only once did they meet anyone, and then they managed to slip into a field, and so avoid recognition.
4 She could only wait, wait and moan in spirit as she felt him withdrawing, withdrawing and contracting, coming to the terrible moment when he would slip out of her and be gone.
5 She unlatched it, and almost smiled at the place he called a pantry; a long narrow white-washed slip of a cupboard.
6 Let me slip over to the hut and see if she's not there.
7 She went on at Venice just the same, rowing out in the gondola with Duncan Forbes, bathing, letting the days slip by.
8 You can slip in from the shrubbery at any time; and there you will find we keep our umbrellas hanging up by that door.
9 He made fast the pail to the long coil of rope, put it over the wheel, and allowed it to descend by letting the rope slip through his hands.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
10 Now is your time, Christian, and I would recommend you not to let it slip.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
11 I held the little printed slip to the light.
12 I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
Context Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
13 The greater part of it was charred to pieces, but one little slip, the end of a page, hung together, and the writing could still be read, though it was gray on a black ground.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
Context Highlight In Chapter 10. Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
14 He might slip away from us in the crowd of Regent Street, but it would puzzle him to do so upon the lonely moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
Context Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
15 He was sitting, fully dressed, in an easy-chair, with a slip of paper which looked like a map upon his knee, and his forehead sunk forward upon his hand in deep thought.
Example Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1 Between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip.
2 She wrote her name and address on a slip of paper.
3 Too much commitment to slip away from the fingers dare ask what.
4 We managed to slip away unnoticed.
5 Better the foot slip than the tongue trip.
6 If you could wait two minutes, I'm just going to slip into a smarter dress.
7 There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
8 There's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip.
9 Inside the passport was a folded slip of paper.
10 From now on no one is to mention that slip of paper.
11 The well-known professor espies the smallest slip I make.
12 She'd started the term studying hard, but now was beginning to let things slip.
13 Jaguar recalled 67,798 cars in April after discovering a defect in an electronic module that could cause cars to slip into reverse gear.
14 The ship tried to slip away in the darkness.
15 The procession moved along the main avenue some three-quarters of a mile, and then groups and couples began to slip aside into branch avenues, fly along the dismal corridors, and take each other by surprise at points where the corridors joined again.