Sentence examples for serious slip from inspiring English sources

"Intel will lose revenue opportunities in 2002 if there's a serious slip," says Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight 64 in Saratoga, Calif.

No one can be bothered to rock the boat in December, so your employers will probably overlook all but the most serious slip-ups.

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.

And Ms. Tuccillo never lets her serious satire slip away entirely.

Many other Americans also failed to see it until newspaper and television analyses shaped their consensus that a serious presidential slip had occurred.

It's time for them to remember the joyful side of music and art, and maybe let a little of the serious side slip away for a moment.

But luckily, there are clever means and methods to remedy even the most serious of slip-ups.

The particular advantages of the vane geometry are its simplicity of fabrication, ease of cleaning and more than anything else, its elimination of serious wall-slip effects.

'The school had been in steady decline for years; it would come out of one category of Serious Weakness and slip straight into another,' said Najma Chaudhary, who came to Heath Mount as headteacher after Ofsted delivered its final, devastating report.

"You cannot be serious!" McEnroe roared, slipping in an international plug for his No. 1 best seller back home.

Based on an idea by Steve Martin (of all people), and written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, "Traitor" comes close to saying something serious, but it slips away into nonsense.