Sentence examples for prove slippery from inspiring English sources

Given that White Denim songs are constantly evolving, capturing them for posterity in the studio can prove slippery.

This is a battlefield that could prove slippery and full of land mines for a tenuous Senate majority that itself lacks ideological unity.

In "Three Women," a little-known radio verse play about the agonies and compensations of motherhood that Plath wrote in 1962 (less than a year before asphyxiating herself in a gas oven at the age of 30), she depicts the act of birth as an utter redefinition of the self: "What did my fingers do before they held him?" Self proves slippery here in other ways too.

Critics of devolution, both Tory and Labour, wailed that the scheme would prove a "slippery slope" toward independence and play into the hands of the S.N.P.

Most of the early days of the endeavor are devoted to chasing the birds around, as they prove more slippery and wont to escape than either man had expected.

The SNP's plan to increase public expenditure by 3% a year means that, even if Scotland's rulers spend all its oil revenues, the hole in its finances will grow.Crude and single maltWhatever its uses, oil could prove a slippery elixir.

As is so often the case with corporate scandals, establishing responsibility proves a slippery task.

Using a blood-­pressure cuff proved too slippery on a PVC pipe; perhaps a sticky material like rubber could help?

Carson Wentz proved too slippery for both Jonathan Allen and Preston Smith on the play that resulted in the first-quarter touchdown pass.

But a version drenched with squid ink proved mostly slippery, unaided by inert clips of squid and a dollop of sea urchin too stingy to make a difference ($29).

Here at Tropicana Field, after so many triumphant, image-busting moments in 2008, the A.L. pennant was proving as slippery as the authentic rays swimming in a tank beyond center field.