Sentence examples for slipping of from inspiring English sources

In Argentina, the game's spiritual home, there has been no such slipping of standards.

The yield stress of a metal is determined by the resistance to slipping of one plane of atoms over another.

Readers tend to forgive this kind of thing these days – the slipping of authorial control, the fumbling of register.

Judging by the history and the numbers, political analysts say the odds have to favor President Bush on Tuesday despite the slipping of his lead.

Singularity theory predicts that under certain circumstances slow, smooth changes in a system can lead to an abrupt major change, in the way that the slipping of a few small rocks can set off an avalanche.

So, he said, "co-op and condo boards can prohibit the slipping of messages under apartment doors if the board believes it is acting in the best interests of the building".

Goals can slip, of course.

Slipping out of consciousness.

Now these guys are leading by slip-of-the-tongue.

Liverpool slipped out of the Cup.

Everything slipped out of our grasp.