Sentence examples for slid downhill from inspiring English sources

It is an acceptable phrase in written English.
You can use it when describing a situation or process in which a person or thing moved in a direction that was increasingly away from a starting point. For example: "The car slid downhill, gathering speed as it went."

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Dunham's school slid downhill.

All the cold air had slid downhill into a basin of fog.

The hotel where the writer lives was very grand when it was built in 1902 but it has slid downhill.

The glacier broke into house-size chunks as it slid downhill, felling trees, triggering mudslides and blocking at least one river, which threatened to cause floods.

But, appalled by the way the show has slid downhill since its original production and the John Travolta movie, she sings "Hopelessly Demoted" instead.

As its stockmarket has slid downhill and the currency, the won, has fallen by nearly 30% this year, the government has been telling all-comers that the economy is sound and the banks liquid and solvent.

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And Zynga has spent most of the time since then sliding downhill.

By the 1940s both companies had relocated, and their old neighborhood was sliding downhill.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the farm was slowly sliding downhill.

"I know if I rest, I'll slide downhill fast," he said.

The appeal of Mr. Spik's submission was "the way it slides downhill," Professor Rice said.

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