Sentence examples for slippery said from inspiring English sources

"It was slippery," said Farah, shrugging his shoulders.

"These guys are kind of slippery," said Robert F. Holden, president of the Juniper Park Civic Association.

"It's far worse than just having snow because that crust is going to be slippery," said Susan Yeaman of the weather service in Raleigh, N.C.

"The side roads are really quite slippery," said Eleanor Tritt, superintendent of the Amagansett district, a single stately brick building encompassing prekindergarten to sixth grade.

"If you have a little bit cloudy conditions, you know, or a certain humidity, then the grass absorbs that humidity and becomes very, very wet and slippery," said top-ranked Novak Djokovic, sounding like a member of the grounds staff.

"Many of them are fascinated by the fact that the monkey bars have become slippery, or that the slide is more slippery," said Sam Huber, head of the school.

As for the re-equipment plan, the defence ministry's definition of "modern" is slippery, says Keir Giles of the Conflict Studies Research Centre.

Besides making ice slippery, says Somorjai, the liquidlike layer could help explain how ice crystals in the upper atmosphere help catalyze the chemical reactions that deplete ozone.

"The black hole has gotten much deeper [for Sun], and the walls surrounding the hole seem more slippery," says Richard Chu of SG Cowen, who expects a 1-cent loss per share and maintains a neutral rating on the stock.

(It's true that Kishi, whom I had occasion to interview, was no Clark Gable, and did have a complicated past, but I confess that I totally missed the face thing with Takeshita and, on the whole, found Japanese pols no slipperier, say, than Al Gore among the Buddhist nuns.) But predation has its price.

"The grip was kind of slippery," Coria said.