Caponsacchi was met in the street, signed to in church; slips were found in his prayer-book, they dropped from the window if he passed.
The harp slips from his hands, and remains leaning against the bulwarks behind him.
In that State a man shall need Neither priest nor lawgiver: Those same slips that are his creed Shall confess their worshipper.
By ripened cuttings, andslips of the root planted under a hand-glass.
Peach stocks are more rapidly budded than most others, as the bark is firm and slips easily, and some remarkable records are made by skillful workmen.
Budding is always best performed when the bark slipsor peels easily.
The cane is not grown from seed, as is generally stated, but from slips taken from the top of the plant, the lower leaves of which are stripped off.
When duly prepared for exportation, it is tightly packed in wooden cases, which are sealed up and strapped with slips of raw hide, ready for market.
He tore up a sheet of paper into small slips and passed them round.
Four slips of paper were put into a hat, and the shortest was drawn by Captain Asgill, who exclaimed, "I knew how it would be; I never won so much as a hit of backgammon in my life.
The animal makes a lurch to keep from falling, contracts the muscles, and the patella slips into place with a sharp click, and the animal walks off as if nothing had happened.
When an animal slips violently, spreading the legs wide apart, the weaker materials give way and the bones are divided.
When in a Poem most are shining Thoughts, I'm not offended if I find some Fau'ts; Such as are Slips of Negligence, or where The Poet may through humane Frailty erre.
I could very easily mark out a thousand Slips and Negligences of that Kind in his Virgil; yet for all that, there are more good Verses in that Translation than in any other, if Mr. Pope's Homer is not to be excepted.
They discover Beauties which escap'd the Observation of the Vulgar, and very often find out Reasons for palliating and excusing such Slips and Oversights, as were committed in the Writings of eminent Authors.
She will not stay here; I have her brought to me so that I can watch over her, but at the first opportunity she slips away.
My sleep is light and my arm is sure; he whoslips into the tent of Hannibal enters his tomb.
Inside, a carrier with shelves is raised by a cord passing over four pulleys, the action of which may be seen through glass slips fitted in grooves.
A wire hook is attached just above, and the extended arm of the hook as the weight nears the top, meets a projecting pin, and slips the weight from the cord.
These slips of paper are your commissions from the governor and the little silver shields are your badges.
From this he extracted two slips of heavy paper and two small silver emblems.
Days and weeks were spent in reconciling them a little; days passed with a pencil and scribbled slips of paper--the lines written with regular commencements and irregular terminations; you know them.
No sooner did we stand on the downs than he gathered us all in a circle, and taking off his cap threw in it some slips of paper.
The steel slips easily through the leaf of the hat, and the head, being glossy and large, is easily found without groping or delay, whenever you may desire to divest yourself of it.
By the loggia, with MORO, he goes; the slave slips out.
Among the number was one martial gentleman with a nose like a small melon, covered with slips of sticking-plaster, and this warrior was he who had received the blow from Silvio at the inn door.
To cause to slip or slide off, or out of place; as, a horse slips his bridle; a dog slips his collar.
It consists of two thin slips of steel welded together, their length being adjystable by a screw socket.
Thus one tradesman slips away, To give his partner fairer play.
A small square box, made either of parchment or of black calfskin, containing slips of parchment or vellum on which are written the scriptural passages Exodus xiii.
To cut slips from; to cut; to take off; to make a slip or slips of; as, to slip a piece of cloth or paper.
Defn: A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle.
Defn: knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.
Defn: The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.
The slips or plates of metal out of which circular balnks have been cut for the purpose of coinage.
Defn: A large mass or avalanche of snow which slips down the side of a mountain, etc.
We've got some pillow-slips to trim, an' we can bring them.
But then I've begun to think life's like one of those exhibitions where some cut-up slips round and changes the labels so that everything's named wrong.
She often corrects me--in little slips about authors and poetry, and so on.
He wraps his handkerchief around the ramrod, slips it into one of the barrels, draws it out again, and shows that it is hardly soiled.
There he slips a package of banknotes into my hand, and tells me to run for it, while he goes about his business.
He is now ready for work; and, thus oddly accoutred, he slips quietly down from his platform, and laying himself along the water, swims gently in the direction of the ducks.
It is cut into slips which serve various purposes, as for shields, cordage, and whips.
The cloth of course, takes the dye upon those parts which receive pressure, being supported by the slips beneath; and thus shows the same pattern in the colour employed.
Little by little it slips in between the mollusc and its house, and devours it entirely.
They are continually making stabs with their stings, but almost always the point slips over the scales with which they are covered.
It then slipsunder these threads, so that during its movements the old skin which it will abandon is, so to speak, gathered up.
It slips in between the flesh and the nails, or gets under the skin of the heel.
He slips in, and sets to work to eat at his leisure the unfortunate inoffensive mollusc, which affords him board and lodging.
He slips his overcoat back on and takes up his hat.
When he desires to see anything with exactness, he must use, in addition, a pair of eye-glasses which he slips in behind the lenses of his spectacles.
He slips his note book and pencil back into his pocket and says as he is about to go:] You'll hurry this to the chemist's.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slips" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
