Sentence examples for made slippery from inspiring English sources

But the circuit is tricky, made slippery by low temperatures, a bumpy surface and dust.

But clearly a disregard for humanity, too, is approaching on this slope made slippery by rain.

Traditionally, public works officials have opposed fruit trees because of maintenance concerns, she said, like sidewalks stained or made slippery by fallen rotted fruit.

But some attributed the fall to a roof made slippery by wet conditions, and parents complained that an often unlocked roof door gave children easy access.

The upper reaches of the jump are often made slippery with shavings from the ice rinks from three boarding schools in the area.

The sheath of the floral structure, upon which the insect lands, is made slippery by oil droplets with the result that the insect slides down into a cup equipped with a ring of spines to prevent escape.

Down on the field, the rain that had contributed to Eli Manning's three interceptions that afternoon was making slippery work of the end-zone change.

They succeed by using delightfully revealing analogies and similes, some borrowed from their prior work, that make slippery concepts sit still for study.The notion of "quantum entanglement" makes more sense when depicted as a pair of loaded dice.

Over eight episodes, the stories of the various revenants (Camille, that small boy in the road, a killer, a suicide, a woman who died 30 years ago) and their shattered families begin to intertwine, making slippery sense of each other.

"People love to make slippery slope arguments, but governments can and do draw the line all the time," said Robert J. Miller, a law professor at Lewis & Clark College who has written about Indians and wildlife-protection laws.

The anecdotal track record of people making slippery-slope predictions in the political domain is replete with bad forecasts.