Sentence examples for book slips from inspiring English sources

The book slips occasionally into hackneyed territory, especially in its later stages.

In the ninety minutes between the time I get into bed and the time a book slips out of my unconscious hand, I read for pleasure.

Confronting the still controversial issue of Nazi collaboration, director Gilles Paquet-Brenner's adaptation of Tatiana De Rosnay's book slips back and forth between past and present, with the ghosts of the 1940s returning to haunt those who have forgotten – or turned their backs on – the awful legacies of history.

Kochanski does her best to see both sides of the picture, but relies too much on interviews with Polish survivors – and the generally well-sustained impartiality of this book slips a little when she accuses Ukrainians of "disloyalty to the Polish state".

Just before dawn, the book slipped off his lap onto the floor.

The book slipped out of her hands, her eyes closed, and she was now walking with some children (students?) on the surface of a lake.

It is much cheaper to buy more tape than use a single piece and have your hopeful $80 from that book slip out in the mail.

His books slipped out of sight, his poems disappeared from reading lists and course catalogs.

Young readers of the books slipped into Rowling's world as easily as they did into a new pair of sneakers or a romp in the ocean.

Four decades passed, her books slipped out of print, and even many of her friends had no idea she was a writer.

Its panel of judges, once denounced by highbrows as "a literary dictatorship," gradually lost much of its authority to pick books, slipped into obscurity and seven years ago disappeared.