Sentence examples for how time slips from inspiring English sources

He had often annoyed his late wife with his many versions of "Funny How Time Slips Away": Joe Hinton, Al Green, Willie Nelson. . . .

It seemed that barely 15 minutes had passed, and we'd already heard Whiskey River, Stay a Little Longer, Crazy, Ain't It Funny How Time Slips Away, Help Me Make It Through the Night and Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain.

One of those returns — "Elvis Country," from 1971 — is one of his best and most beloved albums, due in part to his passion for the material and in part to the material itself, which ranges from standard ballads like "Funny How Time Slips Away" to more uptempo numbers like "It's Your Baby You Rock It" and a breakneck, one-take version of "Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On".

But he didn't really start cooking until after the cameras turned off and he revved up a killer 20-minute jam that strung together classics such as "Funny How Time Slips Away," "Crazy" and "Night Life".

We may sometimes count pages as we read, but I don't think we look at our watches to see how time is slipping away.

Green has always been a sublime interpreter; his covers of Willie Nelson's "Funny How Time Slips Away" and the Bee Gees' "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" are as central to his canon as any of his own compositions.

But no matter how much you try to soak in every moment with your kid, time slips away, and suddenly they're seniors in high school.

I trotted out my best stuff – Night Life, Crazy, Funny How Time Slips Away.

"Funny How Time Slips Away" barely had time to unfold before he ducked into "Crazy," briefly flummoxing his band.

Classics he wrote, including "Funny How Time Slips Away" and "Crazy," slid into classics he repopularized, like "Stardust".

Oh, folks were polite enough as he made a gift of "Willie for Idiots" for the twang-challenged: "Crazy," "Whiskey River," "Funny How Time Slips Away".