[
UK
/slˈɪpɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈsɫɪpɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫɪpɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
moving as on a slippery surface
his slipping and slithering progress over the ice
How To Use slipping In A Sentence
- If slipping into your jammies and turning off the lights isn't enough to give you mental refreshment, or if stress and anxiety leave your brain a mess, try one of these mental-acuity agents.
- The side of Kilauea is constantly moving, generally slipping seaward at a rate of about 3 inches a year.
- She could walk without ever slipping on railroad tracks, across the tops offences, on swaying tree branches.
- Praetor needs more assistance than ever, now that his faculties are slipping away.
- Jagang didn't want her slipping out of their snare by hiding in crowds of people, or escaping by pretending to be a lowly washwoman. The Pillars of Creation
- If you worry your boy is slipping from the land of reading, find lots of magazines and websites dealing with his hobbies or interests. Keeping Boys From Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
- I envisioned a young squirt of an elf, say just a sprightly 100 or 200 years, slipping out to meet his miscreant pals, grab a leaf and ride a wind current.
- If you use regular hangers instead, you might want to consider those with non-slip rubber to prevent the slacks from slipping off.
- But the high pressure that delivered the spring weather is slipping southwards and the jet stream has reappeared over the UK. Times, Sunday Times
- Side by side they lay among the morning-glories, with the yellow blossoms of the hau dropping upon them from overhead, watching the motes of men toil upward, till the thing happened, and three of them, slipping, rolling, sliding, dashed over a cliff-lip and fell sheer half a thousand feet. Koolau the Leper