Without a favourable wind the Yu-ye could not get out to sea; and it would be madness for Mr. Brown and the count to go aboard until there was a practical certainty of the junk being able to slip away.
Wang Shih ordered his men to maintain absolute silence; he hoped that the enemy, unaware of his proximity, would pass by and give him the opportunity to slip away undetected.
But though no escort was provided, he would undoubtedly be watched; and to slip away at Harbin in a direction the opposite of that intended promised to be a matter of considerable difficulty and danger.
With you gone, I'll slip away or come to terms with them.
She suffered an agony of fear in the few heart-beats before they began to slip away.
If he tries to slip away, he'll run up against a snag right off.
I hope they don't take a notion to slip away up the coulie 'stead of droppin' down and takin' their medicine like men.
The lady rose, wishing to slip away unobserved; but her strength failed, and she caught the side of the chair in her weakness.
It rose first for the reason that a few hundred of the general militia tried to slip away in the darkness.
We'll slip away early to the barracks, and I'll make provision.
From time to time he tried to pray to God for me and for himself; but every time his mind began to wander and to slip away, as if through want of practice.
Please not to slip away from me," I said, bluntly, having so often met with that.
Even if we were, we ought to be able to slip away, in the darkness, and make our way to the point where we went up.
Of course, he will see the stones and give the alarm; but in the darkness, I have not much doubt of being able to slip away, and I will then make my way straight to the wall.
We do not care to live under such conditions, and we mean, in a few days, to slip away and go to our friends down the ghauts.
What I find most difficult to understand is how he came to slip away from me as soon as he got into the square.
Ralph Fergus did not follow, and Penny saw him trying to slip away.
He felt a powerful temptation, now that he had warned Fort Prescott, to slip away in the darkness of the night that was to come and seek them.
Luck had been against Henry because the crest of the hill was bare, so if he undertook to slip away in that direction he would become exposed, but it favored him when it made the thicket dense and tall where he lay.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slip away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
