Sentence examples for ice slipping from inspiring English sources

Right from the start, I'm like a duck on ice, slipping and sliding all over the place, while the children perform each exercise Nico gives us faultlessly.

(The ending, in which the widowed mother, shed of her marriage, is now ready to make a better life for herself at the age of seventy-five, is like a stiletto of ice slipping neatly into, and then between, the ribs).

At night they could see slabs of ice slipping out to sea in the darkness beyond the fjords.

With cold and ice, slipping is always a danger.

Call The Midwife kept on delivering for BBC1 with a record 9 million viewers but ITV1's Dancing on Ice slipped up.

ITV1's Dancing on Ice slipped to its lowest audience of the series so far with 8.2 million viewers, a 36% share, for its main programme from 6pm.

One weekend during the 1994-95 N.H.lockoutout, Mike Richter — who helped the Rangers win the Stanley Cup the season before — put his goaltending gear on ice, slipped on his running shoes and participated in a half-marathon in Duluth, Minn.

Theorists have long thought that pouring enough energy into a nucleus would "melt" its protons and neutrons, allowing the quarks to roam free, just as water molecules in ice slip their rigid shackles as the crystal melts.

As the cruise ships pause and turn before Margerie Glacier, passengers, with cameras ready, watch the ice slip in sheets into the silty brown water.

The loss of ice shelves is thought to increase the risk of massive parts of the Antarctic ice sheet slipping towards the ocean, where they can contribute to global sea-level rise.

The threat of the Greenland ice sheet slipping ever faster into the sea because of warmer summers has been ruled out by a scientific study.