Sentence examples for generally slipped from inspiring English sources

But oil shares, which had been strong the last two weeks, generally slipped.

When Ms. Quinn, on video, accompanied the live dancing of Ms. Fenley by reciting movement instructions — left, right, forward, back — as if they were a ruminative soliloquy, the combination was stronger, yet the text and choreography generally slipped past each other.

Mining shares in general are under pressure as commodities generally slip on Chinese growth worries.

But when the star man was ejected the show came back down to earth, with overnight ratings generally slipping behind last year's performance.

Dr. Smalley generally slips quickly over the environmental dimensions of competing technologies because the Bush administration has taken such a strong stand against factoring climate change into policy.

These ghostly particles generally slip effortlessly through matter.

Most focal mechanism solutions of the microseismicity were of strike-slip type with P axes along the northwest southeast direction; these events were generally slip on faults that are favorably oriented to the regional stress pattern (Figs. 1, 4a).

■ Generally, numbers slip into restaurants' names courtesy of the address.

He shrewdly spotted a niche for chewier old-timey brews at a time when beer sales generally were slipping and conventional wisdom saw lighter blends as the future of a finicky market.

But in this poll, Grassley's generally positive ratings have slipped to just 47 percent positive against 46percentt negative.

His iron grip on what is generally regarded as reality slipped like the manual transmission on a Model T Ford with a faulty handbrake parked on a San Francisco hill facing up.