Sentence examples for smooth and slippery from inspiring English sources

It was incredibly easy to read, though: smooth and slippery, but with that slipperiness of never being able to fully grasp; there was too much surface, too much shiny, simple story.

You'll stumble over rocks worn smooth and slippery, over grooved con cave and convex stones.

It was too big to be compacted down into anything manageable, too smooth and slippery to be stored in words.

But there is a fine line between smooth and slippery, warned David M. Ritchie, the product manager for Hewlett-Packard's Laserjet IIP.

But paradoxically – as the two climbers have experienced – Yosemite's granite can also be very smooth and slippery for the feet when obvious edges disappear.

I'm having a hard enough time adjusting to the smooth and slippery iPhone 6, so no.

The a' a', most prevalent, is sharp and jagged; the pa-hoe-hoe, formed at hotter temperatures, is smooth, ropy and slippery, as I quickly found out, taking a spill.

If you use a cane, replace the rubber tip before it is worn smooth and becomes slippery on the wet ice.

The rum jelly in question was "shaped like a tower with bastions and battlements and smooth, slippery sides impossible to scale, and garrisoned by red and green cherries, but into its transparent and quivering flanks a spoon plunged with astounding ease".

From the outside, the old studio system seemed to run effortlessly, its gears slicked and slippery smooth, but in truth it was always plagued by cycles of uncertainty and retrenchment; it was a perpetual mutating machine.

The surface of the track is smooth and dusty, making it slippery and not hard on the tires, although it is tricky to find a good grip.