Sentence examples for by slips from inspiring English sources

"Performance" was language as it was used every day: ephemeral sentences, made imperfect by slips of the tongue, lapses of attention, idiosyncratic mistakes, odd neighborhood locutions.

In a corner of this ravaged city, the dead are marked by slips of paper, tucked into tiny bottles that mark the graves.

A study of fans in line for U2 tickets found that people are just as upset by slips and skips that occur behind them, and thus don't lengthen their wait, as they are by those in front of them.

In the large strain gradient region, multi-slip can be activated and the material rotation induced by slips is negligible.

Shear stress change on sub-fault i becomes G ij U j, since it is affected by slips of other sub-faults.

The first wave packet in the high-frequency mainshock waveforms corresponds to the large pulse in the low-frequency waveforms mostly contributed by slips on R1.

Now these guys are leading by slip-of-the-tongue.

It's politics by slip of the tongue.

Some survive by slipping the tax collector a few Congolese francs to look the other way.

Mr. Chen said he shook off a tailing police officer by slipping through a cinema.

By slipping into the opposite gender's role, we have become more equal.