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Example sentences for "slipped"

Lexicographically close words:
slink; slinking; slinks; slinky; slip; slipper; slippered; slipperiness; slippers; slippery
  1. Softly she slipped out of bed and lowered the flaps of the window.

  2. Carol slipped an arm beneath his head and strove to pull his hand away from his face.

  3. Surreptitiously she slipped an arm beneath his feet, and circled them in a deadly grip.

  4. And it's a good thing for you we are preachers or we might have slipped away in the night.

  5. Universal, and we slipped into the station and seated ourselves comfortably on some egg boxes in a shadowy corner where he told his sad, sad tale.

  6. They slipped among the guests at the reception quietly and unobtrusively, but were instantly surrounded.

  7. And in that case it would be easy to understand how the name of an obscure author, if mentioned by Shakespeare, should have slipped the memory of the title-page scribe.

  8. All these, Alexander, are to be subdued, if that world be not slipped out of your head which you have sworne to conquer with that hand.

  9. He will believe that his son is killed; and I slipped away unknown to him this morning to ask your lordship if you could tell me anything about him.

  10. Dorothy slipped off her shoes, sprang from her hiding place, and quick as thought, closed upon the robber the massive outer-door, and drew the heavy bolts back to their fastenings.

  11. Having arrived at this conclusion, Dorothy dared not wait to let her courage cool, but dressing herself very neatly, slipped out at the back-gate, and took her way over the fields to Heath Hall.

  12. Then she slipped her arm about his neck, and drew his face down to her breast with a tender fierceness, and closed her eyes with a contented sigh.

  13. Stella slipped on a pair of her brother's gum boots and an overcoat, and ran out on the path beaten from their cabin to the shore.

  14. Monohan stepped back and slipped out of his coat.

  15. Marooned once more," Stella said to herself when the little steamboat slipped behind the first jutting point.

  16. Thoughts of forest animals slipped into her mind, without making her afraid.

  17. While she sat there, drawn-faced with the cold, thinking rather amazedly these things which she told herself she had no right to think, the launch slipped into the quiet nook of Cougar Bay and slowed down to the float.

  18. He sat down beside her and slipped one arm around her waist.

  19. All the routine discipline of the woods seemed to have slipped out of Benton's hands.

  20. I slipped from the saddle and, holding this by my left hand, swam with my right beside my mount, encouraging him with my shouts.

  21. The Living Buddha slipped his hand into the chest and drew forth a small box of carved ivory, from which he took out and showed to me a large gold ring set with a magnificent ruby carved with the sign of the swastika.

  22. Belly down in the moving trap, he could not work free to change his direction and so slipped on down with a mass of it until he rolled over the precipice and was lost to us forever.

  23. I told them, in turn, of my escape from Siberia and with chatting thus the day slipped by very quickly.

  24. All the others at once became silent and one by one under various pretexts they slipped out.

  25. The trail zigzagged into mountain ravines, passed over the tops of ridges, slipped back down again into shallower valleys but ever made higher and higher altitudes.

  26. Donning my coat, I followed my established custom and slipped my revolver into it, at which the Baron laughed.

  27. When we were about one thousand yards from them, they slipped from their saddles and opened on us with a running fire.

  28. We slipped out on the ice and worked around by the river to the nagan hushun.

  29. Our Mongol guides, without ever saying a word to us, secretly slipped off with him and left us without camels.

  30. They slipped away without leaving any trail but we met them later in very unexpected circumstances of fatal portent for them.

  31. He slipped from his camel which lay down without his bidding.

  32. It seemed that he had slipped and fallen to the bottom of a shallow ravine, while the bags which were slung across his back without straps had caught on a rock and stopped with myself there in the snow.

  33. The fellow was careful never to give offence, and slipped into the thick of the fight between rival ambitions.

  34. In a moment she had flung off her clothing and slipped like a serpent to Lucien's side.

  35. She stepped quickly across the room to Lucien, and slipped two thousand-franc notes into his hand as she grasped it.

  36. Espard was slipped in, lest the whole Faubourg Saint-Germain should take offence.

  37. The baby that we used to know Has somehow slipped away, And when or where he chanced to go Not one of us can say.

  38. V The First Battle Passing Corsica and Sardinia, the ship slipped southward till at last she made the yellow coast of Africa, broken by the glorious Gulf of Tunis.

  39. Reaching the edge of the water, where the beach falls steeply into the sea, he slipped on a pebble and fell into the water.

  40. He slipped on his dressing-gown and went down to see what was the matter.

  41. He generally is,' slipped in a thin girl, rather spitefully.

  42. Bryan, was leaning back in his chair comfortably smoking his pipe; and Anthy, having slipped off her apron, was preparing to go home for supper.

  43. I slipped into my overcoat, for it was cold, and still he talked on, and at moments I actually thought the rascal had lost control of himself.

  44. He had slipped down the cleft, on the brink of which Isaac stood, tremblingly endeavouring to pierce the darkness below.

  45. And the ship from Earth slipped down in a long slanting line to cushion against its under exhausts, whose soft thunder echoed back from a bare expanse of frozen lava.

  46. The little short[2] crowned me with a chair, and slipped out.

  47. For one who brings news you ask a lot of questions," the guard remarked heavily, as his hand slipped to the needle-ray weapon at his side.

  48. The raft tilted perilously; water washed around his legs and he slipped and went under.

  49. While Apollonie and Mr. Trius had been absorbed in their violent altercation and had stared at each other, she in wild excitement and he in stiff immovability, Mäzli had slipped from between the two as swiftly as a little mouse.

  50. After Mäzli had slipped out he banged the big door with all his might so that the hinges rattled.

  51. It was as though a slide had been slipped in a stereopticon, and a new picture projected upon the canvas.

  52. Rising hastily, he met her as she slipped through the half-opened door.

  53. Before they left, Joscelyn had slipped away, carrying his question and its answer in her heart.

  54. Helen slipped away the dressing-gown, and rose before the mirror in a flutter of frilled things.

  55. He bent down lower and made a sudden snatch, his left hand slipped from its hold, and he was falling, but in that brief instant he grasped the lanthorn.

  56. I slipped out while he was at his prayers.

  57. But as I happen to be better informed, I know that both he and his faithful Selim slipped out of New York as quietly as possible, and returned to their homes in the sunny South.

  58. And then, conscious of the finer strain of fatherhood that had so long lain fallow in his soul, the child slipped into the place, and aims were changed for him.

  59. Pascuel Estenega had been most savagely angry that this young bride should have slipped out of his reach, and left no clew.

  60. Victor was talking with Miss Holmes, so she slipped away, for Elena had found the quiet irksome, and there were always dogs to play with.

  61. Laverne stared at him a moment, then a lovely smile illumined her face as she slipped her hand in his and rather bashfully introduced her new friend.

  62. Whether in the dense fog Mr. Westbury had missed his carriage or slipped and fallen no one knew.

  63. In the farther office desk he had slipped a box with a string of pearls for his darling's birthday.

  64. And one day, just dusk, I slipped out, a lame old woman, and a servant took me to the boat.

  65. She slipped from the horse as they rode by the river and leapt into the roaring water.

  66. Many's the time he has sat beside me on the box, and at the end of the stage slipped a crown-piece into my hand.

  67. In one place I slipped down a wet bank for some yards and held at last by a root; if I had slipped much further I should not be writing here now; and I came back a very weary and bruised climber, without any meditation.

  68. But here I will not trace in any detail the growth of my conviction that the ancient and heavy obligation to work hard and continually throughout life has already slipped from man's shoulders.

  69. Norman slipped at every step he took in the glutinous mud.

  70. The shameless maiden hung her head with a rosy blush as though she had been caught in an indiscretion,--as though the word had slipped from her unawares.

  71. But when she felt his hand trying to turn up her chin, so that her young lips might meet his, she slipped decidedly away.

  72. But whatever cryptic signal she flashed slipped unseen from Maria Angelina's vision.

  73. But you'll do," Ruth pronounced, and in relief Maria Angelina relinquished the center of the mirror, and slipped out into the gallery that ran around three sides of the house.

  74. Shyly she slipped within his clasp and let him swing her out into the circle of dancers.

  75. It was hard to walk, because my shoes were so bad and slipped about so.

  76. And she slipped into the room and closed the door and locked it, and stood with her back against it, staring straight before her.

  77. Mrs. Ellwell slipped out of the rear seat and half ran into the house.

  78. All went sweetly for his first months; he had begun to regard his marriage as an idyl slipped in between pages of prose.

  79. Later he had slipped away in the same quiet abstracted manner.

  80. Camberton slipped away, with its endless problems, its ambitious prods.

  81. If a quieter man, or some young fellow from Camberton, slipped away from the dining-room and joined them, they would talk gayly, simulating ease and naturalness.


  82. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slipped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.