Sentence examples for slipped back and back from inspiring English sources

After the 18th century, Ms. Chast slipped back, and back in time, into the Renaissance section on the Met's second floor, cruising through Botticellis and Bruegels, before finally finding herself fascinated by a 15th-century work by Benozzo Gozzoli (1420-1497).

Moody as the oppressive urban heat of a New York summer's day, the scene seems to be slipping back and back into an ever deeper haze of disappointed factuality even as we stare and stare into its stinking, misty shimmer.

The reality is that Romney has spent the last few months asymptotically approaching the president's numbers: Rising toward parity, slipping back a bit, rising again, slipping back, and never quite gaining a lead of his own.

They slip back and forth between figuration and abstraction.

Slipping back and forth between the "then" and the "now" keeps the film nimble, and accessible.

He led a series of midrace laps before temporarily slipping back and maneuvered back in front after 255 laps.

Make sure you don't slip back and allow the problem to come back.

You can slip back and hit your head.

Caterham finished 10th in their first three seasons, guaranteeing a bigger slice of F1's prize fund, but slipped back behind back-of-the-grid rivals Marussia in 2013.

Indeed sometimes science slipped back into astrology and alchemy and superstition and the occult.

She looks very strained and pale, and has slipped back in her work.