Sentence examples for floor slip from inspiring English sources

The curtains are slit at the bottom like cheongsam or Chinese hostess dresses, letting transom windows at the floor slip a breeze into the room without displacing the curtains.

For the afternoon dive, Hamada led us out to a reef facing the open ocean, the sandy floor slipping away like an hourglass.

Visitors will wind through a sequence of galleries that overlook the atrium on each floor, slipping repeatedly into long fingerlike passageways to reach the next level.

I scooped up a discarded name badge from the floor, slipped it around my neck and walked -- boldly -- inside.

The building's southward tilt, with some of the floors slipped over the ones below, further blocks the low winter sun.

He also complained of injuring his left shoulder when he slipped on a floor slick from water and flour.

Many a summer evening without plans she would pour a glass of wine, take the elevator to the top floor, and slip up a last flight of stairs; roof access was one of the reasons she'd chosen the apartment.

Many an evening without plans she would pour a glass of wine, take the elevator to the top floor, and slip up a last flight of stairs; roof access was one of the reasons she'd chosen the apartment.

The feathers are spread on the floor — performers slip and slide on them with no shortage of anguish — while panels, pushed to and fro, constantly reconfigure the architecture of the stage.

The weak immediate roof tends to fall easily and the continuous miner also tends to sink into the softened floor or slip on the floor.

Finally, we inferred that the prevalence of lameness could be decreased by improving management of multiparous, thin, or injured cows and by adopting management practices intended to improve cow comfort, namely the floor's slip resistance and the stall's lying surface.