Sentence examples for slid into something from inspiring English sources

Since then, aside from a brief interlude of semi-willingness, my ambivalence had slid into something more like opposition.

Iraq has slid into something close to civil war, with al-Qaeda retaking territory that U.S. Marines once died to liberate.

Incongruous though it seems for such a quintessentially American artist to find his oeuvre redefined in the studios and pubs of Leeds, Manchester and London, Cash's affiliation with this ragged group of British-based musicians was the first step on a long road back to critical and commercial relevance, following a decade in which he had slid into something close to cultural inconsequence.

President Maduro's regime has officially slid into something more like authoritarianism than democracy.

"Well, why don't you just slide into something nice and autumnal?" I said.

"It feels to me like this is about power," adds Wiliam Timpson, a Colorado State University professor who has conducted extensive research on conflict prevention in northern Burundi over the past four years, "but the danger is that it might slide into something more familiar [like the civil war].

But as residents as well as staff of humanitarian agencies make clear, the city, once an important center for diamond mining near the border with Darfur, has been sliding into something of a ghost town for some time.

She has transformed the art lecture, illustrated with slides, into something scintillating: a performance, a star turn.

The film's initial warm and fuzzy tone slides into something stranger as the line between objective study and human ambition becomes blurred.

The narrator, stuck in the usual ambivalent relationship with a guy she doesn't find all that interesting, watches her friendship with Anna, a fellow "long-term temp" who approaches life with a sly, offbeat humor, slide into something more.

I had found this big box of African masks and African artwork slides and we had these slides from my mom – she had done this trip in the late '70s, early '80s to Australia and Hong Kong – and we kind of mixed up all these different slides into something that kind of felt murky and mysterious and beautiful.