Sentence examples for occasion slip from inspiring English sources

But New Yorkers who let the occasion slip by without the fanfare of centuries past could be forgiven.

Don't let the occasion slip by smile and say a greeting and ask them if they have a moment.

Dress for the occasion Slip-on shoes, beltless pants and bras without underwires were already common among travelers.

Second, he loathes talking to the news media and has, on occasion, slipped out of the Orioles' clubhouse without discussing his starts.

When he was told that his customer was a writer he said: "I expect you'll often have occasion to slip into what we call double space".

On this occasion, having slipped illegally from her horse, she snatched a muleta and sword from the waiting novillero, raised the sword as the bull charged, and then dropped it, instead caressing the huge black neck as it hurtled past.

"There's a rare occasion someone slips, but for the most part, you could almost argue he's an untradeable player because no one else was willing to pay him; otherwise, they would have had him.

On one occasion, Henry slipped away to Corsica with his brother Louis; the Queen sent a warship to bring him back.

On both occasions he slipped between his more strictly techno output as Robert Hood, into the gospel-informed heights of his Floorplan moniker — he even went as far as to drop a bit of New Order.

The question for Woolf is whether this was the first occasion the mask slipped.

On each occasion, the man slipped away from the crime scene by blending into a crowd of commuters.