Sentence examples for be slipped from from inspiring English sources

Recordings such as Tom Lehrer's "That Was the Year that Was" and Flanders and Swann's "At the Drop of a Hat" could be slipped from their covers, taken to the low-slung mid-century Hi-Fi cabinet, and blasted through the living room after a heavy dinner.

The match appeared to be slipping from Isner's grasp five games before it ended in his triumph.

Yet even this widely held hope among the country's 127 million people may be slipping from Japan's grasp.

But the Paramount chief, fingers ever seeming to be slipping from the edge, actually provides a spectacle.

Ohio, which two weeks ago seemed to be slipping from Mr. Romney's grasp, has become a tighter contest, according to polls released late last week.

Fiona shuffled and dealt for him and sometimes moved quickly to straighten a card that seemed to be slipping from his grasp.

Ohio, which two weeks ago seemed to be slipping from Mr. WASHINGTON — Thursday's vice-presidential slugfest has quickly become a debate about Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s grin.

"The distinctiveness of his contribution appears to be slipping from view," Stephen P. Dunn wrote in The Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics in 2002.

In June a U.N. Development Program report warned that because of the ravages of the disease, South Africa's economy may be slipping from developing status to underdeveloped.

Entire histories are conveyed in a hurried glance, or the way a cigarette is slipped from a packet.

It's the drive to procreate drifting away like a balloon that's slipped from the loving grasp of the child you'll never have.