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leave furtively and stealthily
The lecture was boring and many students slipped out when the instructor turned towards the blackboard -
pass by
three years elapsed
How To Use slip away In A Sentence
- 'When I was a little girl I used to slip away from my nurse, climb to the top of my uncle's keep and sit in the crenel spaces. The Falcons of Montabard
- In the confusion that followed, she managed to slip away unnoticed.
- So for goodness' sake say something, or a potentially good relationship could just slip away. The Sun
- There are those who arrive late, those who slip away early and those who combine the capacity to down 10 pints with a bladder the size of a ping-pong ball. Sheepskin-wearing seating bores get my goat | Harry Pearson
- By the time Albert was eleven, he was already playing parties and barrelhouses whenever he could slip away.
- Every now and then we would slip away to fish for sprats and cockabullies.
- managed to slip away unobserved
- The day will slip away from us as time passes, but not the clarity of the actions we took together in response.
- He had seen total nuclear disarmament in the grasp of his President, then seen it slip away.
- They are luxurious but, importantly, designed to allow High Commissioners and Ambassadors to slip away quickly to golf courses or tennis courts after farewelling a Minister or VIP.
