How To Use Slip up In A Sentence
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If a Highway Patrol car was going to slip up from behind, it would be right about now.
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The dog was almost to the rail fence at the edge of the grounds when I felt somebody slip up behind me.
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If they slip up, is there anyone ready to slide into the title driving seat?
Football.co.uk news feed
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They start asking questions---what if I slip up, say the wrong thing?
TISHOMINGO BLUES
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And having dropped four points in their previous two fixtures, the Londoners can ill afford to slip up again.
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Don't slip up to me!
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If a Highway Patrol car was going to slip up from behind, it would be right about now.
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Swearing at/in front of kids is definitely different from what I'm used to -- even as a foul-mouthed college kid I watched my language around kids I did slip up once while babysitting, however, saying "dang" in front of a promptly-horrified 5-year-old, who was mollified by my immediate pact with him promising that neither of us would ever swear again. :p
OK, I get it.
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And that is what makes the investigators anxious because they think he will become overconfident and slip up.
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His accent is nearly impeccable, and I was listening closely for him to slip up (I'm borderline obsessed with Brits doing American accents).
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But no matter how stage-managed the campaign is, someone will always slip up.
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I tried to slip up the stairs unnoticed.
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But how often have you seen men slip up and wear derby shoes with worn-out jeans, or even casual loafers with suits, for example?
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Heaven help me, here's that shilpit creature and me hoping for once she'd slip up and be unpunctual.
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We were hoping he'd stay on his methadone programme but he'd slip up.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not that I wished that fate on him its just sometimes as a kid, and as an adult too, you think that the only way to get out of those comparison shadows is for the other person to completely slip up.
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We can't afford to slip up.
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If a Highway Patrol car was going to slip up from behind, it would be right about now.
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I heard people speaking in the living room, so I shut the door as quietly as I could, hoping to slip upstairs without being noticed.
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We mostly adopted trade sales to maximize revenues, and they were generally clean, despite occasional slip ups.
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They are merry enough when together, but not one of them will go alone for a "piggin" of water, and if you slip up in the shadow of the old oak and throw a stone into the spring, the entire party will rush away at the splash, screaming with fear, convinced that the "cymbie" is after them.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
