Sentence examples for slippery side from inspiring English sources

After the blog went viral, Eddo-Lodge spent five years writing the book about "not just the explicit side, but also the slippery side of racism – the bits that are hard to define, and the bits that make you doubt yourself".

For instance, how long should it take a rescuer to drag an injured comrade from a damaged vehicle, or hoist a rucksack over the slippery side of an inflatable Zodiac boat?

Wit is one of those rare English words whose scintillating but slippery side-effects can thrill or enrage in equal measure.

She felt as if she were trying to climb the slippery sides of a glass.

Despite repeated attempts, the elephant could not climb out because of the steep, slippery sides of the pit.

The rum jelly in question was "shaped like a tower with bastions and battlements and smooth, slippery sides impossible to scale, and garrisoned by red and green cherries, but into its transparent and quivering flanks a spoon plunged with astounding ease".

The cups have two rings inside; the bug climbs into the outer ring, which is coated in a fine dust (don't inhale it) and becomes stuck there permanently, unable to grip on to the slippery sides to climb into the second ring where the leg of your bed is standing.

Several countries are pushed on the slippery slope sides of their labor tax Laffer curves.

Just as there exists the inevitability fallacy on the pro-gay side, the opposing side has a slippery slope fear.

The road then descends over the slippery steep side of a hill into the valley of the Me-kham, by whose side it gradually emerges into flat country, sometimes wooded and sometimes open.

The New York Times and its sister publication, The International Herald Tribune, for example, had more than a dozen reporters patrolling Davos's slippery, scenic side streets this year.