Sentence examples for we have slid from inspiring English sources
"Nato's policies related to Russia remain unfriendly and opaque - one could go so far as to say we have slid back to a new Cold War," he said.
We always strive for excellence, not adequacy, but over the past 15 years or so, we have slid down the ladder.
From this oversized plywood shark we have slid down the slippery slope to tabloid (and broadsheet) reporting of football being the horrible beast it is.
Whatever their denomination, most evangelicals believe that American culture has become too permissive; abortion, gay sex, pornography — all strike them as indicators of how far we have slid from more wholesome ways of life.
If he has greater distance now, it is only because more time has passed, not because there has been any true accounting; if anything, we have slid into an odd state of complacency about the torture in the Bush years, watching it in movies and wondering whether it worked, rather than asking who might be culpable.
Those who deride the contributors to liberty central when they warn about the incessant creep of police powers, or who scoff at "slippery slope" arguments around civil liberties, should bear in mind that we stood at the top of one of those slopes only 15 short years ago, and we have slid a long way down it since.
Doors that swing open can hurt bicyclists, so now, once again inconveniencing the many to appease the few, we have sliding cab doors.
"It was only a few seconds and we did not know what happened, but we had slid more than 200 metres," Mondinelli told Associated Press on Monday.
We had slid down the "singing sands", where our movement caused a symphonic crescendo, an organic organ music playing over the wasteland.
Of course, taken literally it's not really about New York and Los Angeles — we've slid down that hookah pipe before — it's about the one in the middle.
In the end, perhaps in penance for having ridden the tram up, we took a high road, the Fishin' Jimmy Trail, which led us back up the Kinsman Ridge on a route only slightly less steep than the one we had slid down the day before.
