Sentence examples for slippery grip from inspiring English sources

Before the tot can do more than beam impishly, her mom lunges toward the forbidden object to wrest it from her assured yet slippery grip.

First, the Japanese prime minister split the opposition, strengthening the slippery grip on power of his ruling Liberal Democratic Party (see article).

The facile conclusion may well have been that here was a poet with only a slippery grip on his own sanity; and this indeed may have been the case.

Pearce, a utility player acquired in a trade with Houston on Monday, walked and scored one of the Yankees' runs in a 2-1 victoverover the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday, a bounce-back performance that momentarily tempered the angst about the team's slippery grip on first place in the American League East.

Could the climactic duet between a desperate woman, lashing out in what might be anger or distress in the slippery grip of her black-clad partner, be a dim reference to Eurydice lashing out at fate as she tries to glimpse Orpheus in the Underworld?

But seven months ago, the captain and 122 other ABP men were relocated to Babaji, some 300km from the frontier with Pakistan in an effort to bolster the defence against the Taliban, who continue to capture territory the international coalition spent years getting little more than a slippery grip on.

Fumble your way up 15 feet of slippery rock, gripping the ice walls for balance.

It seems that the more Mr. Abbas's presence grows, the slipperier the Americans' grip on power and the good will of Kut residents becomes.

A gripping, slippery memoir by the novelist Emmanuel Carrère, The Adversary, based partly on his correspondences with Romand in a psychiatric institute (he was comatose after the fire, but regained consciousness, and was eventually given a life sentence).

The front paws are short with retractable claws, with tough pads on the palms that enable gripping slippery prey.

Whereas the theropod trackmaker accommodated sloping and slippery surfaces by gripping the substrate with its pedal claws, the basal ornithischian trackmakers adjusted to the terrain by changing between quadrupedal and bipedal stance, wide and narrow gauge limb support (abduction range = 31°), and plantigrade and digitigrade foot posture.