Sentence examples for big slip from inspiring English sources

When the academy took over the building, "it was really a big slip downward," said Carla Paterno Darlington, a granddaughter of Dr. Paterno.

"I had a pretty big slip that threw me," said Wotherspoon, who raced against Erben Wennemars of the Netherlands, who finished fifth.

But it looks as if the big slip will come here where Britain is a strong third in the gold medal table behind China and the United States while the Australians sit — as of Monday night — in 16th place.

Finally we've also got a big slip-up by a Dutch TV reporter, a rat terrifying passengers on the New York subway, and one of the funniest school April Fools' pranks you'll see.

Watch the critics at Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, Wine Spectator magazine, Panel Tasting magazine and Wine Enthusiast; one of them will have a big slip-up that results in him or her handing out the final wine rating of a long career.

The biggest slip of all in the melodramas Canty favors is to continue to care, yet he manages to entice both narrator and reader into doing so.

Serving at 4-4, Marchadko his his biggest slip of all, when he went sliding in the back of the court and started to fall onto his back, before twisting and landing on his stomach with a scream of frustration.

Her biggest slip, while talking about models in a 1995 Time Magazine article, was this little nugget: "We work harder -- at night and on weekends".

All Nippon Airways, the region's second biggest, slipped 2.5percentto to 351 yen.

Fifty-two of the slips can accommodate boats up to 45 feet long; nine bigger slips can handle a maximum of 65 feet.

Check out the top 10 gaffes of all time below... Oulala.com's managing director Benjamin Carlotti said: "A good football ­verbal clanger never fails to make you smile so we wanted to celebrate some of the biggest slip-ups".