Sentence examples for it slips from from inspiring English sources
I get a quick sense of its shape, then it slips from my hands.
He added: "We always end up touching glory with the tips of our fingers, and — puff — it slips from our hands".
The prey is attracted to the large showy leaves by nectar, and it slips from a treacherous lip into the pitcherlike hollow leaf, which in reality is a cistern of digestive liquid from which there is no escape.
With opinion polls showing the effect of the Paris attacks fast wearing off, it was hard not to agree with the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, that David Cameron was concerned to hold the vote "before it slips from his hands".
If it slips from Mr. Bush's grasp, he will have to win Florida and most of the other swing states -- like Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio -- to win a majority in the Electoral College.
"Sometimes the difference between a hit single that will be played somewhere, on some radio station, every single day until the end of time, and a hit single that will almost never be played again once it slips from the charts is simply a matter of our continued ability to wonder about it".
Bryan biographer Paulo E. Coletta wrote, "during this year [July 1894 June 1895] of calamities, disintegration and revolution, each crisis aided Bryan because it caused division within his party and permitted him to contest for its mastery as it slipped from Cleveland's fingers".
But the scale of the SDLP collapse - its vote fell by 4.98 points as it slipped from first to fourth place - shocked party veterans.
Washington should put Chile high on its foreign-policy agenda, rather than letting it slip from attention until the next crisis arises.
But in the face of stiff competition in its Sunday night prime time slot in the US it slipped from being among the top 10 to 72nd place.
