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  1. slipping, slitheringadjective

    moving as on a slippery surface

    "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice"

    Synonyms:
    slithering

    Antonyms:
    nonslippery

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  1. List of paraphrases for "slipping":

    sliding, infiltrating

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How to use slipping in a sentence?

  1. David Segre:

    So all the chairs... they were slipping backward. And as gravity works they started to go faster and faster and people were jumping off at the lower levels.

  2. Clifford Hart:

    International anti-trafficking standards have evolved, standing still is slipping backward in the face of a growing global challenge.

  3. David Price:

    There's still plenty of sense that we need to address the slipping away of the American dream with blue-collar America, we didn't do it in 2016. But we're not about to concede that or to give it up.

  4. Brian Boucher:

    When you’re on the road and you haven’t faced the crowd in a year and all of a sudden the game starts slipping out of your hands and you’re trying to get it back, things can happen at 1,000 mph, for a player, if you haven’t been in that environment for a while, it takes some getting used to again.

  5. Al Pacino:

    It just seemed so outrageous. Here I am, talking to somebody who I think is flipped out. I said, what train am I on ? OK. Humor the guy. And he wanted me to do Michael Corleone. I thought, OK, I ’ll go along with this. I said, yes, Francis, good. You know how they talk to you when you’re slipping ? They say, ‘ Yes ! Of course ! Yes ! ’ But he was n’t. It was the truth. And then I was given the part.


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