Sentence examples for slippery up from inspiring English sources
"Blue Streak," the set's lone cover, hailed from a 1974 Keith Jarrett album on which Mr. Motian appeared: it was dynamic and harmonically slippery, toughened up with the occasional power chord.
As much as teenagers and adults alike try to strategize over the search for love, in the end whether two people connect is a kind of elusive, slippery magic, up to the gods or to some unseen force, and it always comes down to one thing: timing.
He further thought the slippery run-up areas would have forced the faster bowlers to operate less vigorously to avoid injuring themselves.
Nothing so slippery can stir up indignation.
We scampered up slippery rocks, stirring up a riot of wildlife as I scanned for a vantage point to make images of the moss.
The slippery tile sets up a Rube Goldbergesque chain of pratfalls that culminate in a grotesque self-strangulation.
Furniture must be rearranged, booster seats placed on chairs to ease standing up, slippery rugs removed, lighting improved, bathrooms accessorized with handles and rails.
This is the writer who conjured up Slippery Jim DiGriz, a k a the Stainless Steel Rat, a raffish con man who starred in a dozen books over a half-century.
As is his style, he made his stake to being a Man Of The People with slippery logic, gussied up in characteristically whimsical style.
I scrambled up slippery slabs of pale marble as the winding three-mile trail narrowed through tight passages until opening up to a natural amphitheatre of dark-red cliff faces.
