Sentence examples for to slippery from inspiring English sources
adjective
Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
- Oily substances render things slippery.
In their fury, some accused "Mayor-for-Life Bloomberg" of favoring trees over beachgoers consigned to slippery, scalding concrete.
The main event here is the mixian, or rice noodle, which ranges from firm to bouncy to slippery, depending on its temperature.
JFK's slim electoral victory may well have owed much to "slippery practices", but the debt was to Kennedy's father and Chicago mayor Richard Daley, not, as Stone claims, to Lyndon Johnson, who also, contra Stone, never "managed Congress for Roosevelt", being far too junior at the time.
Assessment of pH value is crucial as low pH could indicate presence of toxic metals while higher pH leads to slippery feel and soda taste in water.
Morpholinos targeted to "slippery" mRNA sequences within protein coding regions can induce translational frameshifts.
Cover it with a cloth or towel for protection of the surface, but make sure nothing is to slippery.
That makes it hard to figure out and slippery to prognosticate about.
Its sugary nectar is irresistible to tree shrews who climb on to its slippery rim to reach the tasty bait.
Statistics showing a massive falling off in actual investment, as opposed to sentiment, are slippery.
Therefore, you simply can't afford to have surface area to be slippery at all at such a sensitive place.
Present day endoscopic graspers are designed to be tooth-like in order to grasp slippery tissues.
