slippery

How To Use slippery In A Sentence

• He is as slippery as they come; a quality that has doubtless helped him to survive the controversies that have dogged his political career. Times, Sunday Times
• In this hour, a general talks strategy against a slippery enemy.
• Don't know what was wrong - the wind was swirly and the roads were in slippery condition, but the main problem was heavy legs.
• Though a bodyboard is slippery, hours of rubbing can cause rashes.
• But the slippery term keeps expanding to encompass more and more groups.
• The most baroque of these is a slippery square of cod, baked in a dome of salt and egg whites, which the waiters tap open at the table with a spoon.
• Others stayed on the slippery canting decks until the City of Benares foundered, struggling to free rafts and jammed lifeboats. THE LONELY SEA
• All ran fluently in the beginning, but when I was going back to my home, I passed through a narrow slippery street.
• At about 2. 50pm on Wednesday, a light truck lost control on the slippery Hume Freeway between Arkells Lane and the Wandong exit, setting off a chain reaction when the car behind it slammed on the brakes, which in turn caused the car behind that to aquaplane straight into the car in front. Star News Group
• On volokh.com, slippery slope arguments are not only not fallacious, but also carry is an irrebuttable presumption oftruth. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Is the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Unconstitutional?”