Sentence examples for slipping like from inspiring English sources

"When I'm slipping like I'm on ice, he'd be there to hold me, make sure I wouldn't fall.

She peeled back the wrapper to inspect the sheen on stainless-steel treads slipping like a Slinky down a molded-walnut staircase.

And so on throughout the day, hour by hour, each elaborate in its own manner, into the protraction of evening, which is a genre all its own, a cotillion of every living thing, the deer slipping like shadows through the woods, bumblebees working well into dusk, hanging from blossoms like blossoms themselves.

"We had the problem of the in-service date, we were slipping like mad, and there was increasing pressure from [the army] to get this weapon into service to replace the ageing SLR, so we made the error, if you like, of increasing the rate of production".

However, a CEO slipping like this – in front of a world already clamoring for his head – is pretty terrible.

TV networks were slipped like sweets to various relations.

"When you slip like that it's sore.

Nearly formless, it can slip like a mouse through a tiny crack.

He earned one penalty in the first half, but could easily have been three as he slipped like an eel.

If I had my pliers, I would adjust your nose pads so your glasses don't slip like that.

Dancers slip like ghosts through those curtains, entering and leaving the stage with an air of mysterious but inevitable purpose.