Sentence examples for hour slip from inspiring English sources
His first subject was George "Taters" Chatham, once the best-known thief in Britain and a man with a big gambling habit; if he ran out of money during a poker game in the West End, he would ask to be excused for half an hour, slip up the drainpipe of a nearby Mayfair house and return with enough jewellery to stay in the game.
The soldiers navigated the narrow valley for nearly an hour, slipping along the stone as a crystal stream gushed by.
A "rescue engine" was on its way, but after half an hour slipped by without any sign of deliverance, I began to despair.
Nearly half of these children are already on the critical list, inching further away from life as every hour slips by.
He moonlights as an art thief, typically booking a client into a crucial interview and then, at the appointed hour, slipping into the guy's empty house and relieving him of a picture.
When the brakes were all the way off they could go thirty miles an hour, slipping up the high sides on the curves and lifting slightly from the track on the dips.
("Take care of every minute; otherwise hours slip away and days are lost").
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by.
After hours, slip into the subterranean Bascule bar, which is as snug and streamlined as a yacht.
Haiti needs 100 helicopters to save lives as these critical hours slip away.
