• She poured the water and turned to put it back in the fridge but as she opened the door the jug slipped from her grasp and shattered on the floor with a loud smash.
• We passed the trident, crossed over the hill and tumbled down a moraine the far side, our feet slipping on the loose rock.
• Her heel slipped on some mud and she lost her balance, swearing as an arm wrapped around her waist, preventing her from hitting the ground.

Synonyms

• Sometimes, however, the gears slip, the programming fails, and the logic circuits burn out.
• My tennis shoes slipped over the slippery surface of the rock.
• We slogged across the pasture, truck tires slipping and sliding in the mud, and wound up walking the last hundred yards or so.

• My face flushed as I quietly and quickly slipped my hands under the kitchen table.
• But he took from his desk a pink candy heart with a gold motto, ‘You are sweet’, and slipped it under her arm.
• As Mila loads the luggage, Andy quietly slips a small envelope into her purse.

Synonyms

• We quickly slipped into the red satin bathrobes and immediately felt like royalty.
• She quickly slipped into a chainmail vest and threw a rusty old helmet over her head.
• Humiliated, Julia grabs her coat from the ground and slips into it quickly, eager not to be spotted by anybody.

Synonyms

• Oh, Daddy, I don't understand why my common sense is slipping.
• Whatever it is that makes you realise you're slipping, make sure you use it to trigger yourself into healthier habits.
• If your family knows that you are trying to lose weight, they can be helpful reminders or motivators when you feel like you are slipping.

• All other thoughts slipped her mind, and she sat down again, squeezing his hand.
• I haven't been writing too long, so details do slip my mind, whether you choose to believe it or not.
• She acted as though she were trying to recall a fact that has completely slipped her mind.

• They are in the leash, but in a moment they will be slipped.
• When game was sighted, the huntsman slipped the dogs.

• To execute this decrease, slip the first stitch as if to knit, slip the second stitch as if to knit, then slide the left-hand needle into the front part of both stitches and knit them together.
• Mosaic knitting simply involves slipping the stitches in a row that should be the "other" color.
• The technique of two-color slip-stitch knitting is really quite simple: If you can knit simple stripes and slip a stitch, you have all the skills you need.

• First was too snatchy, second meant constant clutch slipping, resulting in wrist-ache after a few days, and the weather, which was unseasonably atrocious.
• For those drivers who slip the clutch frequently, yours will wear out quicker than a driver that does not slip the clutch.
• Try not to slip the clutch when shifting or driving.

• As I watched the soul depart, it was like seeing a mighty ship slip anchor from port, and the final awesome moment as when the gangplank is removed.
• Sorry but I'm unable to visit your blogs, we are slipping anchor and pulling out of harbour to run from an oncoming typhoon.

• They also must document why a mare slipped a foal to collect on insurance claims and to secure unborn foal insurance for future pregnancies.
• If a mare has "slipped" a foal in a previous pregnancy, double care should be taken, as she will be far more likely to do so again than another which has hitherto escaped the accident.

• Four-channel ABS from Bosch combined with electronic traction control regulate wheel slip in both braking and acceleration on low grip surfaces.
• Effectively the car learns the road surface and tailors the level of slip at the rear to deal with the next patch of tarmac, depending on the bravery level with the Manettino switch on the wheel.

• If there's still runway ahead and you're low enough to reach it, slam the airplane into a slip and get it back down on the pavement.
• Also, due to the static port's position, many airspeed indicators are inaccurate during a slip.
• Gusty winds can pick you up or drop you down, so stay a little high, knowing slips or flaps can get you down more safely.

• The thrust zone displays significant brecciation although no slip planes were located.
• The collision was accompanied by left-lateral strike slip and terrane displacement.
• Shortening is manifested by the development of folds and thrust faults; the horizontal slip is accommodated by strike-slip faults.

• But the Rams can't afford a single slip if they want a part in any of the four BCS games, and this clearly is the biggest obstacle.
• No politician at this level makes slips like that.
• A slip at this level might not cost you your house, but it could cost you your reputation in the community.

Synonyms

• Darren Lehmann walked out to three slips and a bouncer, and stepped off following a pull similar to Hayden's.
• Sarwan settled quickly and seemed in a hurry to score runs as he flashed a cut through the slips for four.

• The most usual plan is to set up the type in long slips the width of the intended page cut of variable length (called 'galley slips,' after the special press on which they are generally printed), each slip containing matter enough for two or three pages.
• These proof slips are read before they are sent to the author, and all gross errors corrected, doubtful words marked, and the author's attention called by the printer's ' reader ' to any redundancies of expression or any sentences which are not apparently intelligible.

• Floor-to-ceiling expanses of glass are screened by thin slips of white curtain.
• The panels' frames, of ebonised wood with a gilt slip, are mid-nineteenth-century additions.