How To Use Slip in In A Sentence

You can then pay bills immediately, using a separate chequebook, even if it means that you slip into the red.
Watching the boy toss, turn and slip in and out of a light doze, Laras wondered if he wasn't somehow picking up on his father's tension and frustration in some subtle way.
Watching it, it's got all the fun of a murder mystery musical, but the undercurrent of aggression never lets it slip into the realm of a wispy bagatelle.
Inasmuch as the defence needs only to secure the vote of one juryman to procure a disagreement, this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make, since the prosecutor, who must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of letting an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip into the box. Courts and Criminals
While, as Steve pointed out, patriotism can easily slip into jingoism, that is simply a way for some people to channel their personal idiocies. Planet Atheism

i told my wife the other night, i'm hoping that obama can slip in a few "dishonors" and "dishonorables" under the radar on tuesday night. mccain will catch it and it will set him off. i honestly think that's the one button that you can push with mccain that he can't resist blowing up over -- hitting his honor (or lack thereof). Obama Campaign Launches Pre-emptive Ad Strike Against McCain's Planned Character Assault
Tip out the clarified butter and slip in half of the regular butter. Times, Sunday Times
The completed ships could easily slip into the water along the inclined shipways.
Or at least it is on Saturday 5 March when reporters, newspeople, sports teams and reporters slip into sequins and top hats for a night of show time fun.
Rapid Technology posted a 27% slip in revenues yesterday to 1.24 million for the six months to end of December.
Not those - but a couple of days ago he was doing the sideslip in interviews about Obama. Bill Clinton: Economic Crisis Means Veep Choice Is More Important
Red bandanas and shirts were everywhere, with a scatter of white, but everyone had a dark sweatshirt or jacket to slip into if they heard sirens.
All eyes were on the speaker, and nobody noticed me slip into the hall.
During the madding pace of the night, Father De La Cruz managed to slip into the hotel unnoticed.
I thought today that probably the best way that bloomsday can be inspiring is not to dress up in leopold bloom outfits, but to slip inside the day, slip inside the broad breadth and intimacy of the day, and that is available today and any day. Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies
The town is such an easy one to slip into. Times, Sunday Times
During bouts of illness it is very easy to slip into bad thought patterns. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
The ski/walk switch needs to click louder so you know the cuff is locked forward (an important piece of information when you're about to side-slip into a chute).
The record comes into focus with ‘Nobody's Playing ’, an introduction that clearly defines a piano-scored slip into Americana, falling through memories real or imagined, recorded on stuttering kinetoscope and dug up a century later.
Bell 12.142 of Davenport, Iowa, performed gastrotomy on a man, who, while attempting a feat of legerdemain, allowed a bar of lead, 10 1/8 inches long, 1 1/2 inches wide, and 9 1/2 ounces in weight, to slip into his stomach. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
This slim book - a little more than a hundred pages - is his account of the skills he used on his journeys, and it covers basic campcraft at a size you can easily slip in your backpack.
When the surf's up, it's time to slip into tropical floral print pieces in delicious chocolate and turquoise.
The dialogue is often poignant and moving, but the play is never allowed to slip into sentimentalism.
There are many situations which have women - and, though less often, men - squirming as to whether to slip in just one or two porkies.
If your handlebars slip in the stem clamp, that can be dangerous when you slam on your brakes.
But he left his door open so she could finally slip inside unnoticed. The Sun
AMD announced the slip in shipping forecasts last night at its latest conference for financial analysts.
I think a Mag-Pull or two can slip into a snaplink/carabiner but the Mag-Pull itself takes too much space so 8 x Mag-Pull mags would be impossible to snap on. WN.com - Articles related to World Trade Center (PG-13)
It amazed him how easily one could slip into a routine.
During editing I managed to slip in some clips from a Soviet film, The Fall of Berlin, to help frame the story.
At the '96 Olympics, the U.S. women's team so overshadowed the men that the NBA stars almost could slip in and out the back door.
This led me to use only pencil and ballpoint pens and to slip in a piece of kitchen towel to soak up wet ink.
Aware that I was detailed to serve as orderly at the Supreme Court, I prepared my tunic the night before, so that the following morning I was only required to slip into it and appear at my post on time.
slip into something comfortable
Features such as the stopwatch, countdown timer and thermometer make it ideal for outdoor sporty types, while it's compact and light enough to slip into any pocket.
She is heavily medicated and they believe she will slip into a full coma and then pass away.
Champions among these are the two species of sicklebills, whose bills are the only ones that properly slip into flowers of the Andean lobelioids that are bent at a ninety-degree angle.
The doors had been barred shut, then pried open, allowing us to slip inside.
The aftermath of Dalston market is quite a sight - apparently yesterday the big sellers were cabbages and sweetcorn, but there were also plenty of fish heads to slip in.
Next week, Illinois will release a report card on all public school districts, but West Aurora School District 129 already has released data showing a slip in scores for 2009 compared to the previous year. West Aurora School District 129 Scores Slip for 2009
Let me slip into something more comfortable .
To pull off see-through pieces in style, opt for a bodyshaper or a slip in a shade that matches your skin tone. $58 at American Apparel stores and www. americanapparel.com. Trend Report: Heir transparent
And all the crew took turns to slip into the frock to record their farewell messages before she left clutching a bunch of flowers. The Sun
Our people believed that if you give a common thing the meaning of something else you really want—in this case, a bone given the name and mien of a child—the spirit world is tricked into thinking you already have that longed-for object and looks away just long enough for the longed-for object to slip into its place. Freud’s Blind Spot
We used the skiff to slip into a narrow gap in the reef.
In the ensuing gun battle one militant was shot dead while his accomplice managed to slip into the other side.
We slip in binoculars, for the nudist lesbian Wiccans over the hill. Hunters
There is a visual banquet of samples and swatches available for the asking, so if you like something ask for a little taster to slip into your bag.
I dreamt of a rainy day, one of those days when the crackle of water on the windows acts like a lullaby, a gentle drumming to make you slip into afternoon sleep against the strange worlds inside your book.
Coun Bernard Pearson was concerned that the water park would be closer to the cliff edge than the Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, which was destroyed by a landslip in 1993.
If the game isn't aware you are present there is generally time to make preparations - to slip into a shooting sling, extend a bipod, find a tree or rock - to do whatever is needed to get steady.
slip into something more comfortable after work
We professional writers know that between the time we submit something and it appears in press, it is massaged, edited and copy-edited, and with all the professionalism in the world mistakes sometimes slip in.
While the rest of us stood agog as the spray from the whales' blowholes misted over the deck, three divers managed to slip into the water.
While some investors are buying gold to hedge against inflation, which is likely to eventuate from another round of stimulus, others are worried the U.S. economy will slip into recession without such help and are purchasing gold to hedge against possible losses in other assets. Gold Vaults to New Record, Just Shy of $1,900
GRIFFIN: I don't, but Josh Levs, this is by design up there in D.C. They like to slip in these lingoes so no one knows what the heck they're saying. CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2009
The public service role of television news at the time of a major accident is fairly obvious and the private news channels now slip into it in a practised way.
The coating has a high resistance to oxidation and prevents any plastic deformation of the nano-crystallite, eliminating any boundary slip in the matrix that forms the coating. Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news
`Simply because you'll be able to slip in and out of the favela unnoticed. ALASTAIR MCLEAN'S 'NIGHT WATCH'
If you could wait two minutes, I'm just going to slip into a smarter dress.
She was rattling on without affording me the slightest opportunity to slip in a word explanatory, when her glance chanced to fall upon some one who was approaching us through the throng. My Lady of the North
Slip in an audio disc and the sound astounds, with sumptuous bass and smooth vocals.
GM spent billions of dollars and effort to re-create Cadillac, their markee brand that they let slip into disrepair - as an auto naker how do you ever allow your key brand to get stale? Ace of Spades HQ
Her slim figure and graceful movements suggested to him that she knew how to quietly slip into a room, or to turn it into a swirling storm of attention.
Near Bungay we turn off into the winding lanes of an estate, pass the hall and slip into the old wood, pulling in the truck down a brambled, grassy concrete road the Americans constructed during the war. Wildwood
The binoculars have smart silver finish and can easily slip into a pocket, handbag or backpack. Times, Sunday Times
The binoculars have smart silver finish and can easily slip into a pocket, handbag or backpack. Times, Sunday Times
On a recent weeknight at the bar Southpaw in Park Slope, the Defibulators 'guitarist and banjo player Bryan Jennings (who goes by the name Bug) and singer Erin Bru slip into harmonies that recall the storied Gram Parsons-Emmylou Harris duets. Undefined
Cut the tiles to the required width with a sharp craft knife, and just slip into place.
It is to be supposed, however, that politics had managed in some way to slip into this existence devoted to muscular exercise and the hippic science, for, from a heap of the morning journals disdainfully flung upon the floor by the worthy colonel, Monsieur de Trailles picked up a copy of the legitimist organ, in which he read, under the heading of ELECTIONS, the following article: The Deputy of Arcis
Many begin to slip into unspoken worrit about those people, who'd been so hostile to our jests earlier on.
The first, above, is nearly dip-slip in relative movement, and you can see a close-up of the footwall breccia. Friday Fault Photos
Shrimp slip into the sample chamber just as the spire tumbles over.
However, those of us who walk on it every day have to be careful not to slip in the mud and twist our ankles on the uneven surfaces.
However, one luminous star of the first magnitude did slip into Toronto almost unnoticed to add lustre to that inaugural year - Jeanne Moreau.
Add the olive oil to the pan and, when you can feel a good heat rising, slip in the butter and swirl it in the pan as it foams and melts.
I could be wrong about this, but I always thought the duvet was meant to slip inside of a cover, while the comforter is already decorative and is meant to be used as is. The Linen Closet
The door was slightly ajar, allowing her to slip in quietly.
It looks as if the writer had meant by a short cut to give us both ideas; if so, his guilt is clear; and if we call impose a mere slip in idiom, the confusion is none the less apparent. Metaphor.
Watson and Crick found that certain evidence ex cluded the possibility that the two polynucleotide chains of a DNA molecule are paranemically coiled, that is, are so coiled that they can simply slip into and out of each other. GENETIC CONTINUITY
Combination lasting combines the two, either with a board in the rearfoot and slip in the forefoot.
Is it just that as soon as someone mentions ‘torture’ we all slip into our well-rehearsed ideological roles and hardly bother reading the post properly? Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition
Still, the Pentagon insists that, except for a slight slip in retention in the National Guard, recruiting is not suffering.
Let me slip into something more comfortable .
However, 10 years ago, WA's barley breeding program was reviewed after locally grown varieties began to slip in the view of some international maltsters.
All eyes were on the speaker, and nobody noticed me slip into the hall.
Or just slip into some casuals and simply walk into the rain!
He was standing on a piling at the ferry slip in Brooklyn when the ferry hit it a glancing blow.
Meanwhile, it is expected to take between three and four weeks to clear a mile and a half of track affected by a landslip in Heck, 11 miles north of Doncaster.
He had begun to slip into debt.
Most are not words to slip into casual conversation — Great epizeuxis in your presentation, George! The Syntax of Style
Hooligans often take care to evade police escorts and to slip into rival territories unobserved.
Then we'd slip into the Kuskokwim lowlands, where the river carves channels through square-mile gravel bars and unravels in braids until it flows into the larger Aniak. Whitewater, Survival, and the Best Salmon Fishing in Alaska
After clearing, we made our way into a slip in the seriously luxe ONE15 Marina, another 1,000 mile passage in the bag.
Beth let out a cry of misery and her exhausted mind finally let her slip into unconsciousness.
I hereby resolve to slip in, heh, the term bat-shit slippery at the next possible opportunity by way of test drive. "The disdain is palpable," Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about Andrew Sullivan writing about me.
In the feed zone, because of specific rheological behavior, the polymer, either as granules or powder, can be quickly compacted or sintered by pressure and temperature, and can slip into the space between the extruder screw and sleeve.
Without goals, everyone will slip into their own direction, and fracture any sense of unity in the work that is produced.
In the hands of less-assured actors, The Maids can slip into humourless camp.
When a large chunk of your job is spent in heels and skin-tight dresses the temptation to slip into a mobile sleeping bag must be irresistible. Times, Sunday Times
Mr O'Sullivan believes that if the EU gives the go-ahead for the new scheme the entry premium loading could slip in unnoticed by many consumers by the end of June.
Whenever an actor is asked to slip into a toga he sees it as an excuse to go all swivel-eyed and bonkers.
Slip in a pair of big fluffy slippers and a coupon for a free movie rental.
If he dared score lower in an examination or for some reason had a slip in his grades, Kevin had to face the comparison risk.
But, in adopting a technique which was widely used 150 years ago, you can easily slip into the habit of writing in the style which the old-timers used.
Under the cloak of darkness, they can slip into a cocoon of overhanging foliage.
Part of the slip in approval is because of republican-lite "Blue Dogs. CNN Poll: Dems becoming less popular but no gains for GOP
Armed with such a precept, a number of doctors may slip into deceptive practices.
Despite some good acting from the ensemble cast, the characters slip into the stereotypes needed to establish the political debate.
Towards the end of the month however, Joe tends to slip into the red by up to £300.
Let me slip into something more comfortable .
During bouts of illness it is very easy to slip into bad thought patterns. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
It had become compact enough to sit on a desk or slip into a briefcase.
Breaking from TheGreenGrok formula of sharp, cutting-edge pieces on the environment, let's discuss words -- let us surreptitiously slip into the world of the etymologist for a few minutes. Bill Chameides: On Words: 'Global Warming' Meets Astrology
He began to slip into debt.
I am just going to slip into bed; I have been daggled to and fro the whole day.” The Fortunes of Nigel
Armed with such a precept, a number of doctors may slip into deceptive practices.
I was concerned I'd slip into a mass of moroseness, but that hasn't happened as yet.
While this brand of porridge contains no added sugar, the manufacturers have managed to slip in skimmed milk and cream powder.
Unlike other near contemporaries such as Thomas Dekker, Whetstone's anatomization of urban failings does not slip into cynicism, nor does he take a vicarious enjoyment in the vices he describes.
I was not responsible for the chance encounter that allowed the virus to slip into my bloodstream in the summer of 1944.
The veteran did not forget to slip in a message or two about such things as character development and patriotism.
Limited, but consistent data from mesoscale slip indicators suggest sinistral shear with a minor normal component.
Happy to slip into their anecdotage, they affectionately remember the stresses and strains of life on the factory floor, touring, recording and funding a funeral parlour that become their safe haven when it all became too much to bear.
Allied to the control with which candidate selection lists are drawn up, it seems the Party is letting us slip into its own form of meritocracy, badly dressed up as democracy.
Unfortunately, he can also slip into the overly sentimental balladry of his mid-period. Times, Sunday Times
For women who agree with the reviewer that their next 30, 40 or 50 years are about "the mostly unavoidable humiliation that is aging," then get back into the closet, girls, slip into your boxy overblouse and drawstring waist pants, and don't come out until you're ready for bingo or bedpan duty. Gail Sheehy: Who's Afraid of the Seasoned Woman?
Tip out the clarified butter and slip in half of the regular butter. Times, Sunday Times
So I wanted her, wanted to run my tongue over those erect nipples, to play with the twin black hairs, to know what it felt like to slip inside her.
So, while the other officers stalled him, I managed to slip in underneath the cabin and creep up from behind him.
Till recently, dictators who ordered thousands of "disappearances" in Latin America's dirty wars were allowed to slip into easeful retirement.
I am just going to slip into bed; I have been daggled to and fro the whole day. The Fortunes of Nigel
Karoo lamb, kabeljou, impala and Knysna oysters will be on the menu with a new generation of china, crystal and silver to slip into the handbag. ANC Daily News Briefing
In a year she goes from gushing schoolgirl to gymslip intellectual. Times, Sunday Times
Darcy initialed the routing slip in the proper place and tossed the folder into his outbox.
Any that slip into the lowest category of ‘poor’ when the Comprehensive Performance Assessment tables are updated next year could see government troubleshooters sent in.
The plaster sucks away the moisture from the clay and the remaining liquid slip in the hollow is poured out.
I put on an accent I slip into something more comfortable I turn nasty.
The episode, described in eyebrow-raising detail, also illustrates the novel's occasional tendency to slip into macabre campery. The Times Literary Supplement
The blade has good flexibility, is sharp, stays sharp and the Gator grip finish on the handles means it doesn't slip in your heand when everything is wet and covered in fish slime. On Favorite Fishing Knives
It amazed him how easily one could slip into a routine.
And all the crew took turns to slip into the frock to record their farewell messages before she left clutching a bunch of flowers. The Sun
Then we slip into Caribbean time and spend the next two hours talking and watching the waves run up the beach in the burning afternoon sun.
That glee about his own work could easily slip into something else. Times, Sunday Times
The public service role of television news at the time of a major accident is fairly obvious and the private news channels now slip into it in a practised way.
So you'd slip into a shooting gallery to test the dope.
I thought I'd slip in a few jokes to lighten up the talk.
I knew I wouldn't get a chance to slip in before class but fortune smiled on me in the form of an open window.
At times the unrhymed lines slip into tautology, but such moments are rare. The Times Literary Supplement
Ordinarily, Alexander's slip in the radio studio would be laughed off as a joke.
It's easiest to slip in with the Hotel California, an apricot-infused gin, pisco, lime and pineapple juice pleaser. Sunshine in a Glass
My friends and me would buy ‘pakodas’ for an anna and then in the evening slip into Modern School through the back gate to pluck mangoes.
He had begun to slip into debt.
And all the crew took turns to slip into the frock to record their farewell messages before she left clutching a bunch of flowers. The Sun
Kyuna switched over to autopilot and allowed herself to slip into a trance-like state as she listened to the music.
We both slip into sweatpants and tee shirts, and put our sopping hair up as it drips down the back of our necks.
So you'd slip into a shooting gallery to test the dope.
Knowing this, she had allowed herself to slip into the mindless routine of farm work, blindly tilling the soil, never looking up at the sky.
We were ... an annoyance, I think " her tone was calm, but it was clear she did not like being regarded so lightly " and perhaps a little something extra to slip into his gamebag, if we were not too much trouble. The Dragon Reborn
Just slip in a piece of paper.
I didn't want to appear surly, but a word had to be honed mighty thin to slip in edgewise, so I concentrated on the tea, cucumber sandwiches, and seedcake, suppressing wistful thoughts about a pub. Operation Luna
We like any woman who can slip into a couture gown and kick her foot higher than her head.
If you could wait two minutes, I'm just going to slip into a smarter dress.
But through it all, they will always feel incredible each time they slip into their best LBD. The Sun
But through it all, they will always feel incredible each time they slip into their best LBD. The Sun
The binoculars have smart silver finish and can easily slip into a pocket, handbag or backpack. Times, Sunday Times
When I finally pull him off her, we begin an arm-locked waltz across the glass-scattered floor, until my feet slip in their own blood and I topple backward onto the waterbed.
The problem is when some news organizations make a oint of referring to the head of Al Qaeda as Osama vs bin Laden, and take advantage of the similarity to make it easy to slip into the Osama (first name)/Obama (last name) error. Chris Matthews: Terrorist Tape Came From Obama -- Er, Osama -- Headquarters
Shrimp slip into the sample chamber just as the spire tumbles over.
While a tag nabbed Ortiz, heads-up baserunning saw Norris slip into third while Hosmer took second on the fielder's choice. OurSports Central Baseball News
We have tried as hard as we can not to deify him, not to be too reverential and not to slip into easy sentiment.
Doesn't every footballer need to slip into something more comfortable after a hard day on the pitch?
There's probably a lot of short-term sideslip in the twenty-second century, but by the time it reaches us, it all irons out in the wash. Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Despite some good acting from the ensemble cast, the characters slip into the stereotypes needed to establish the political debate.
Tip out the clarified butter and slip in half of the regular butter. Times, Sunday Times
In the scant light he could see the casual folds of the silk slip in absence of the pelisse.
As the currency started to slip in May, companies with future-debt obligations denominated in dollars rushed to buy greenbacks.
Then Little Billy would slip into his dressing gown and climb on to Swan's back and off they would go.
When the day is done, head back to your hotel room to light an Aveda tea-light aroma-therapy candle ($5; aveda. com), turn on the ocean surf or gentle rain from the Tranquil Moments sound-therapy system ($99; brookstone. com) and slip into a pair of battery-powered massage slippers ($20; homedics. com). HOW TO STRESS LESS
Until this flight, the X-15, typical of all research aircraft up to this time, had a front-mounted boom with vanes to sense airspeed, altitude, angle of attack, and angle of sideslip in a free aerodynamic flow field. First Man
Guitars are battered and skins leathered, as you'd expect, but whereas lesser-experienced acts might slip into chaos, Call Me Lightning maintain control of their compositions.
New lighting will be installed to bring the block out of the gloom, making it less easy to slip inside unnoticed.
We professional writers know that between the time we submit something and it appears in press, it is massaged, edited and copy-edited, and with all the professionalism in the world mistakes sometimes slip in.
One day, postulates Media Lab professor Alex Pentland, we might want to slip into a shmatte that handles all of those tasks. Ready To Ware
Rarely, the fish slip inside the mouth and can cause acute respiratory obstruction with fatal consequences.
A SLIP in vealer quality last week at Baw Baw Livestock Exchange, Warragul, saw their average price ease 10 cents to 167.8 cents and the top price of recent sales did not return, although the 233 cents for the top vealer was maybe down on what the quality of the pen showed. Star News Group
His philosophy is to make elegant, clean, unoaked wines that, in his words, do not slip into vulgarity.
He needs to slip into old clothes so that he could feel free to stretch out on the hay beside the brook and bathe in a meld of physical sensations.
The villages slowly slip into a mood that reflects a superb blend of spirituality and worldliness.
Well-organized, orderly, and fastidious, they try to maintain high standards, but can slip into being critical and perfectionistic.
PS As a bogtrotter from Cavan, I really wish you would slip into a coma and die within the next week ... Army Rumour Service
Four-channel ABS from Bosch combined with electronic traction control regulate wheel slip in both braking and acceleration on low grip surfaces.
Red bandanas and shirts were everywhere, with a scatter of white, but everyone had a dark sweatshirt or jacket to slip into if they heard sirens.
Then soften the effect with a creamlike slick of olive oil and slip in a surprise bomb of pale lychee fruit, all insinuating sweetness and perfume.
The only major thing that could change (aside from the woman not being a bitch and letting her rescuer slip into the depths of the Atlantic at the end) is that the ship makes it across instead of sinking.
Slip into this sensuous little plunge cup and experience it for yourself.
The swirling synths on the next track ‘Rodd’ slip in to show the depth of the sea as we slowly approach the ocean floor.
‘Shut up and slip into the dress, so I can zip you up’ Kirk said coolly.
What seems to me more important than the ‘Oh ugh’ factor is just how easy it is for standards of law and behavior of slip into bestiality.
Shrimp slip into the sample chamber just as the spire tumbles over.

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