Sentence examples for slippery test from inspiring English sources

The lab equipment maker's share price smashed like a slippery test tube after its June report that sales would rise just 10% this year, at the low end of its previous guidance.

Concerns about wider testing included a slippery slope toward testing for minor abnormalities or cosmetic traits and a trivialization of abortion.

Each slippery, tentative step tests the knees and ankles.

Before each trip, Hadow spends hours on Dartmoor pulling strings of tyres around tors, getting caught on and under rocks, untangling, pulling, shoving and scrabbling over cold wet granite to prepare for the huge pressure ridges he will have to clamber over: steep walls of frozen slippery ice rubble which test both his physical strength and patience.

Some figures come out best if you use a thin slippery string, and heavy-test braided nylon fishing line works well.

Because a dynamometer will be involved in the test, driving on slippery roads in which you might lose some traction can affect the efficiency of your engine, possibly enough to skew the test.

There would be a slippery slope that peer review, tests of relevance, and even demonstrable falsity could not cure.

So let's see if the individual elements of the slippery-slope argument pass the smell test.

Practical tests were carried out on different slippery surfaces, gravel, sand, salt, snow and ice.

Lindsay Davenport's sore back will be tested by the cool conditions and slippery grass.

"It is a slippery slope, and the Games in Beijing are testing the limit," he said.