Sentence examples for small slippery from inspiring English sources

The small, slippery, large-handed "Pine Marten" bears its little frowning face aloft in something like an embodied afterthought.

Lima Limon also prepares many lesser-seen specialties, like rachi ($7.95), grilled tripe marinated with ruddy aji panca peppers; and long-cooked weekend-only dishes including olluquito ($11.95), shredded beef with small, slippery Andean potatoes; and carapulcra ($11.95), a pre-Columbian stew with undertones of peanut and garlic.

"I wish I could put you in a small, slippery-floored cage," an anonymous correspondent wrote to Graham.

They were catching rocklings: small, very slippery fish of the same olive-brown as the kelp.

On this apparently gentle landscape, small creeks with slippery banks, and rutted roads with narrow bridges presented vast obstacles when thousands of men had to drag wagons and cannon and horses and mules and supplies across them.

The Ritz-Carlton chain, which favors marble floors in its hotel bathrooms, has made separate shower stalls with far less slippery small ceramic tile floors standard since the mid-1990's, according to Derek Flint, senior corporate director of rooms, though older properties have the combined bathtub-shower and thus have rubber bath mats.

Take very small steps in slippery, wet, or greasy areas as your crutches can slide out from under you.

As our pages of print classifieds get smaller and smaller, it becomes a slippery slope of relevance as to whether we're going to have the reader referencing those pages.

Either way, he was soon clinging with small hands to a slippery ledge as his cousins watched helplessly.

At Fioravanti, the designer Leonardo Fioravanti works on ideas like tires with sensors built into their treads to assure control even on slippery surfaces, small television cameras in place of rear view mirrors and a gear shift that resembles a computer mouse.

She carries this fragmented worldview on her small frame like a slippery skin.