Sentence examples for causing it to slip from inspiring English sources

This is a new experience for your puppy and you don't want to scare it by dumping water directly on its face or going too fast and causing it to slip in the tub.

The pressure would have reduced stress on the fault, causing it to slip.

Mr. Baptie said that in the Blackpool quakes, the high-pressure injection of water during fracking may have reduced the stresses on a nearby fault, causing it to slip.

The limited edition's tin packaging doesn't securely hold the disc in place, causing it to slip and slide inside.

Japan has been trying to bring its standard into line since Europe implemented its new regulations in 2005, but now says that last-minute changes requested by Brussels will probably cause it to slip the deadline of July next year.

I have a limited overlap of Velcro on the back of these masks – a small head or shiny hair can cause it to slip off and I have to hope they have protruding enough ears to hook it over.

All is well until I realize that a few small movements I've made have caused it to slip down, causing the frame to rest on the top of my ears and the actual drivers to no longer be where they should be.

"If there are faults that are already in existence near the water injection, and also if there are existing faults ready to slip, adding water can lubricate the fault and cause it to slip".

These surfaces usually consist of downward-pointing papillate cells or an epicuticular wax layer that disable the attachment organs of the insect and cause it to slip into the floral chamber (Gaume et al., 2004).

The first one will not budge from your hand while the latter will cause it to slip.

(The answer to the mystery of the Nascar crash, by the way, was that a trailing car had changed the shape of the air-flow over the first car, which in turn had reduced the downward air pressure on it, causing its wheels to slip as if it were on ice, and it skidded into the wall).