Sentence examples for figure slip from inspiring English sources

If you waited long enough you generally saw a khaki-clad figure slip hurriedly across the gap.

Another key concern is why I intuitively questioned the victim about her actions, but let the conduct of a powerful senior figure slip as something that is "to be expected".

Meanwhile, an incongruous figure slips through into the promised bacchanal.

But going into the Christmas holiday, that figure slipped behind last year's.

Then one evening as we walked home, a figure slipped out from the bushes under our bedroom windows.

While the figure slipped from 60.4 in April, it was higher than the 59.0 forecast by economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters.

Just before midnight, a figure slipped quietly through the shadows along the red-earth tracts between huts and entered one of the wooden shacks.

When the artist Ronnie Cutrone died late last month, at 65 and apparently of natural causes, a quirky and marginal figure slipped off the cultural stage, taking with him a large and vital hunk of late-20th-century New York history.

The latest GDP growth figure slipped to 6.9% and industrial production numbers just released, on December 12th, showed a decline of 5.1% compared with the previous period, a miserable state of affairs.

The man who had been Peru's spy chief and its second most powerful figure slipped out of the country, flying to Panama to request asylum in the wake of a bribery scandal that threatened to topple his boss, President Alberto K. Fujimori.

The disgraced spy chief who until recently was Peru's second most powerful figure slipped out of the country today, flying to Panama to request asylum in the wake of a bribery scandal that threatened to topple his boss, President Alberto K. Fujimori.