Sentence examples for slipping by from inspiring English sources

'slipping by' is correct and usable in written English
You can use this phrase to describe a moment that passes very quickly, usually without a person being aware of it. For example, "The days have been slipping by, and I haven't even noticed summer passing."

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The Alan Bean was soaring a hundred and fifty-three kilometres high (95.06 miles Americanus), at a speed faster than that of a bullet from a gun, and the moon was slipping by so fast that we were running out of far side.

Deadlines on deployment kept slipping, by years.

"But meantime, the days are slipping by, the months are slipping by, the tide is turning".

He feels it slipping by, he feels it being wasted.

In February, some local residents built a dam to keep bodies from slipping by.

With morale slipping by the day, institutional investors leaned on Mr Purcell's pliant board.

"But we're getting to the point where, slowly, the opportunities are slipping by".

"But as I've gotten older, I can't believe how quickly it is all slipping by".

Was it another example of shot from outside the box slipping by Timmy?

And meanwhile, the deadline for "saving" the lower Itchen, originally set at 2015, is slipping by.

Consumer prices fell for the seventh fiscal year in a row, slipping by 0.2% in the 12 months to March.

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