Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
slipping
IPA transcription: [sl'ɪpɪŋ]
Pronunciations of slipping
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adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
slipping, slithering
Meaning:
moving as on a slippery surface; "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice"
Usage examples
"I'll be slipping off now before your Revenue cutter comes.
I felt myself slipping. Once my head dropped and came up with a jerk.
Quietly she went up and knelt beside him, slipping her arm about his shoulder.
The prize at the top of a greasy pole which is continually slipping from one's grasp.
Then, very gently and cautiously, slipping one finger into the crevice, he drew the door toward him.
She had come to feel that the time was slipping between her fingers and that she must say something effective.
"Glad to hear it," said Roger, slipping his arm through Springer's. "Come on, let's walk over yonder to the fence.
"What?" asked Phronsie in intense interest slipping down out of Polly's arms, and crowding up close to Jasper's side.
"Oh, John, how late you are!" said Amelia, slipping out from the back parlour as he let himself in with his latch-key.
Binding the whole was a narrow porch, showing a floor polished like a mirror from the slipping and sliding of generations of feet.
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