Sentence examples for slip quickly from inspiring English sources

It was not clear how this might happen - there has not been a vote at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party for a long time - but the danger was that the situation could slip quickly out of Blair's control.

In my case, I allowed my eyes to slip quickly away from the Times' projections of Sabathia's pay per game ($727,848) and per pitch ($6,934) as a Yankee, and over to an adjoining sports-page story announcing that the Mets had just signed the ex-Cleveland closer J. J. Putz to the role of setup man out in Queens, come spring.

30th over: Bangladesh 125-3 (Rahim 23 Hasan 29) A massive mid-pitch conference for India, who know that they are letting this match slip quickly away from them, with Bangladesh in no hurry to play the good balls, but quite content to wait for the bad ones.

Wide-edged plates slip quickly into the mantle at the trench, whereas narrow ones tend to be slow.

Apple is clearly courting developers hard to get their apps ready for the Watch launch, even at the cost of potentially irritating Watch purchasers who saw their order times slip quickly if they weren't quick on the draw.

Sugary foods tend to melt and therefore will slip quickly through your new digestive tract.

The slip-up quickly saw a barrage of tweets using #FreudianSlip appear on Twitter.

When it was over, she slipped quickly into a Capitol elevator, clutching her grandson's hand.

Yet Mr. Milosevic's influence on the party seems to have slipped quickly.

But, for all our watchfulness, none of us saw the small bee that landed on Justice Stevens's collar and slipped quickly down the back of his robe.

Dr. Smalley generally slips quickly over the environmental dimensions of competing technologies because the Bush administration has taken such a strong stand against factoring climate change into policy.