Sentence examples for trick slip from inspiring English sources

When some protest that their husbands will object, the nuns suggest an old prostitutes' trick: slip them on with their mouths.

While the image of the lonely writer hammering away at her typewriter in a dark room for days on end springs to mind, today a writer has to employ every available trick to slip away from the chaos of life and get the words out.

You know, that insouciant European trick of slipping one item underneath another (in this case a black sleeveless shell underneath her white sweater), then pulling off the outer garment.

And I like his trick of slipping into a hoarse register when the song becomes dramatic".

Maybe it was four years ago, in Beijing, when the grooming of the 14-year-old superstar-elect had become so intense he had already developed the trick of slipping a sponsor's name check into most of his answers.

The other day during a frantic scramble to get my 1-year-old to music class, I watched her perform her latest trick -- slipping into her little gym shoes and tightening the Velcro straps all by herself.

"Divisadero" has a highly literary sensibility (7), to the point where Coop is tricked into slipping up at a card game by talk of Tolstoy.

His neatest trick was to slip a fine restaurant into a tourist destination.

One trick is to slip an English word or two into a French sentence, and thereby try to get away with not translating it at all.

The trick is to slip in some filth (ooh-er missus) for the adults while making sure it goes over the children's heads.

A pedagogic writer's trick is to slip the hard word into a context or near a synonym that helps the reader learn by guessing.