Sentence examples for slipped close from inspiring English sources
In Argentina, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has seen her approval ratings fall below 30% as the economy has slipped close to recession.
They told of state budgets that have slipped close to or into the red, requiring special legislative sessions to make painful adjustments.
Now they all sat talking on the terrace in an evening light as thick as syrup; clouds of insects swarmed above the Japanese water features, swallows slipped close along the earth, a blackbird sang.
Yields on two-year Treasury notes slipped close to 1%.One of the newest sources of worry is the market for commercial property, which had held up until recently but is now crumbling.
When Glenn Hoddle collapsed on his 61st birthday in a TV studio in London on Saturday and slipped "close to death", football held its breath, just as thousands of Tottenham fans did in the 1970s and 80s, whenever he had the ball at feet that were as soft as pillows.
Once-great Borussia Moenchengladbach slipped closer to relegation after its 3-0 loss at home to MSV Duisburg.
At the other end of the standings, Hull, with the American striker Jozy Altidore being sent off, slipped closer to relegation with a 1-0 loss to Sunderland.
Getafe slipped closer to the relegation places in 17th with 40 points, one ahead of 18th-placed Real Zaragoza, who visit fellow strugglers Real Sociedad (41) on Wednesday.
In the three games before he went to Pittsburgh, Sanchez registered three below-average efforts, and in those games, the Jets' once-promising season slipped closer to collapse.
The United Nations security council voted to increase the UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan on Tuesday, as the world's newest country slipped closer to civil war.
Despite these results, the study noted that many other bird species slipped closer to extinction during the 1994 2004 period, with a total of 164 moved to higher categories of extinction risk on the World Conservation Union's Red List of Threatened Species.
