Sentence examples for slip and run from inspiring English sources

Yet for some reason, Lowry was unable to master the slip and run of verse, something he was aware of himself: "... my poems such as they are look as though they had a kind of wooden monotonous classical frame: perhaps I have no ear... but then I must have some sort of ear because I began life as a would-be composer of hot jazz, and what is more I think a good one.

Make sure that you don't slip and run a hole through the film.

Can it really be 20 years since his slip and run-out on the same score at Lord's? Clapping members in suits – check.

Greene scrubbed the floor with towels on her feet ("I have been known to slip") and ran the scene with Salt.

An alternate version is Secret Werewolf, where everyone draws their slip and runs and hides, including the werewolf, who does not reveal their slip or count.

But the first half saw both teams trying to hang onto the ball in sheets of rain that turned the artificial turf at Alumni Stadium into a gigantic slip-and-slide run.

The couture bottle, the "free-spirited heiress" marketing campaign and the fragrance itself make one want to don a slip dress and run barefoot through the streets of Rome at night.

I preserve a distant sensation of skin against skin, as she held tight to my hand, out of anxiety that I would slip away and run along the uneven, dangerous street: I felt her fear and was afraid.

The distraction allowed him to slip out and run away.

They slammed my face into the dryer and then pushed me into the stalls but I managed to slip past and run with jelly legs back to my friend downstairs on the dancefloor, where she was embarassing herself with her date, draped over him and declaring her undying love, despite all the other shit that's going on.

"He sat there and stared at the door [during the siege], thinking if only somehow he could slip through, and run away....'...'. said Albina.