Sentence examples for mere slip of from inspiring English sources

By Keneally's standards, The Tyrant's Novel is a mere slip of a thing.

I mean, Atika was a mere slip of a thing, 4ft if that.

Ms. Dearie has a mere slip of a voice, but she's a stylist of remarkable subtlety who can draw out a note into a hummingbird flutter.

If the imperfectly expressed thought — whether an amusing blooper or a serious gaffe — is unintentional, a mere slip of the lip, then such misspeaking is not lying.

She had only to come face to face with Mr. Bocca, as the old flame who had deserted the widow when she was a mere slip of a peasant girl, for her riveting performance to triumph.

An artist's sketch, circa 1840, of the young Queen Victoria astride her horse, with a plumed helmet and dashing cape, makes her appear a mere slip of a girl.

If Terry's complaints were mere slips of the tongue, however, he managed to repeat them to three separate news organizations and an authorized news conference.

That was no mere slip; he is also caught talking with a mouthful of what appears to be a sandwich.

To think that a mere slip against Chelsea should rob Steven Gerrard - arguably the best player of his generation - of lifting the Premier League title seems outrageously unfair.

Though some of the mistakes have been mere slips, they were slips of a sort that a candidate who claims a close familiarity with America's founding ought never to have made.

To a professional gambler with a handful of cards, $100 bills become mere rectangular slips of green paper, and the smallest of details -- a once-twitched pinkie finger, a throbbing neck vein -- can make the difference between separating $50,000 in casino chips from a table of losers and becoming a loser yourself.