Sentence examples for play slipping from inspiring English sources

There he was, stiff-arming Brad Jones on one play, slipping the tackle of a blitzing Morgan Burnett on another, dragging M. D. Jennings into the end zone on a touchdown run.

Dressed with carefully calibrated frumpiness, Ms. Libel spends much of the play slipping seamlessly between the characters of Lila, a young American woman, and Noon, an older refugee from an unnamed European country.

But Eli, the center of Daniel Talbott's affecting play "Slipping," which is receiving its Baltimore premiere from Iron Crow Theatre Company, cannot disguise the fact that he's a romantic at heart.

The New Yorker, November 28 , 1925P. 1 Another good play slipped through the finers and Billie Burke hasn't had a good play since Mr. Frohman died.

When his play slipped last season, the irksome details of his relationship with management seemed harder to justify for team officials.

When a photographer attempts to capture a family portrait, something metaphysical goes wrong and the play slips through the looking glass, giving us a glimpse of a fractured and fuzzy family history.

"A guy makes a play, slips a tackle," Oregon defensive coordinator Don Pellum said.

I feel like that's why my play slipped like that".

And we let our play slip a bit in the second period.

Here's what you'll need to play: slips of paper (index cards work well), a handful of pencils or pens and a pile of paperback books.

Some iconic historical figures are almost impossible to play without slipping into pastiche.