Sentence examples for slips spring from inspiring English sources

Penelope Keith follows the modern trend of playing the famous word-mangler not as a grotesque figure of fun but as a woman whose verbal slips spring from a passion for language.

One worker hums the theme from "Jaws" as the blade slips past.

(See “Pink Slips: January 2009 Layoffs.”).”

All the indexes slipped yesterday.

The mood stays light even as the days slip past.

I slip, fall and land on an argument.

The Nasdaq composite slipped 30.61 points, or 1.6percentto to 1,879.48.

On Wednesday, the index slipped 50.93 points, or 0.5percentt.

The Nasdaq composite slipped 16.62 points, to 2,091.24.

The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 15.15 points, to 10,099.14.

International Right to Know Day slipped past this year with little fanfare.