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?”
There is no glaze on the surface of the tile, which means that they are cool and not slippery under bare foot. Times, Sunday Times
To help set the mood, I brought in Bon Jovi's "Slippery When Wet. Lynne Sadowski: The Day I Unleashed My Inner Vixen
The term internet marketing is still somewhat slippery, and may mean different things to different people. Shaister Miester Do Da
Your daughter tried very hard to get back the money from her landlord but he proved to be an incredibly slippery character. Times, Sunday Times
The floor of the cage was slippery with a kind of odorous slime. Starchild Omnibus
They can easily come off the slippery surface, get traction on a dry piece of road, and just fire off into the crowd, or a lamp post, or anything else, at the drop of a hat.
There are liable to be rocks, propellers, exhaust, slippery decks, cleats, and a host of other potential bugaboos that must be considered.
And who knows how many Christians he is putting on a slippery slide of unbelief concerning the clear written Word of God?
It is rather dim under the trees on an overcast, damp day, and hard to keep your foothold on the slippery bank. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
While there are many transitions and sections in each song, this record is so fluid and slippery smooth it often recalls a state of lucid dreaming.
Traffic came to a standstill for around 22 minutes near Ulsoor Lake after a truck skidded and collided with a tourist bus on the slippery stretch.
Fearfully she launched herself on the slippery path, clinging to the wet sleeve of his mackintosh. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
All this may be true, but these are slippery words.
His hands on the wheel were slippery with perspiration, his fingers antsy and trembling. THE LAST TEMPTATION
He cuddled up to his colleagues, begging for approval - he was obsequious, smart, slippery.
At Gusev Crater, Spirit had to divert from her original course up Husband Hill because the slopes were too steep and the sandy terrain too slippery.
Debilitating injures were commonplace in work areas with slippery floors and stairways, and heavy unguarded machinery.
His feet were now covered only by his wool socks, which would make less noise, but make footing slippery on the marble floor.
The rounded, waterworn stones made the surface treacherous and slippery and difficult to negotiate. THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK
The company started down the slippery slope of believing that they knew better than the customer.
There are liable to be rocks, propellers, exhaust, slippery decks, cleats, and a host of other potential bugaboos that must be considered.
The small cove is at the bottom of a very steep cliff road that is slippery when wet, and a car, heavily laden with dive equipment, can find getting up or down a struggle.
She tried to get a purchase on the slippery rock.
Whether his team will be prepared for slippery conditions on a wet pitch remains to be seen. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the work, the slippery staircase is running with damp and sprouting moss. Times, Sunday Times
Overall results were calculated three kilometers from the finish to let riders not interested in disputing the sprint avoid falls on the slippery surface. Boasson Hagen takes stage win; Di Luca keeps Giro lead
But will the tourists still feel quite so slick when they are trying to catch a slippery catfish using only their bare feet? The Sun
There is no glaze on the surface of the tile, which means that they are cool and not slippery under bare foot. Times, Sunday Times
We had to be mindful of every step we took on slippery sidewalk.
Then I began to open the slippery paper out of its folds.
No slippery politician was going to give me the kind of straight talk I was looking for, but only politicians and platitudes were on offer.
In places the path can be wet and slippery.
If you aren't paying attention, you might even buy into what that slippery little scut is saying…
These tyres give the bus better grip in slippery conditions.
The chestnuts give a sweetness and soft, crumbly texture, providing a delicious contrast to the soft rice and slippery mushrooms. Times, Sunday Times
Here and there, indeed, were smooth patches which we called bowling-greens, but hard and slippery as polished marble, with much the same translucent appearance. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Neither will it represent a slide on that much-allegorized "slippery slope" towards limiting free speech. Dorian de Wind: Snyder v. Phelps: Does Hate Speech Trump the Right to Mourn with Dignity?
The 2009 robotics competition, dubbed "Lunacy," required designing and building robots that would ally with others to collect balls ("moon rocks") on a slippery ("moonlike") surface. Celebrity Geeks
But it's all downhill from here ... The slippery slope 1.
And I think we ` re going down a slippery slope when we start taking children away before they ` re even born, based upon acts that the man pled guilty to, Nancy, pled, meaning he may have felt sorry for what he did. CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2005
He was barely controlling a long leash attached to a reddish-gold puppy that was all long legs and loud skitter on the slippery wood floors. FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
Loss of balance on a slippery surface, especially ice or snow, is also common.
All went well till, in trying to keep the track at the same time as my feet, on a very slippery surface, I came an awful 'purler' on my shoulder. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
This is only a four-minute slippery shuffle from the ski lifts, while also being handy for the resort's centre.
I have found the point, as I say, finely balanced. ‘Facility’ is a slippery word.
There are also concerns about a “slippery slope” leading from assisted suicide to voluntary euthanasia, and from voluntary euthanasia to nonvoluntary euthanasia. Damien Keown - Would You Help Your Parents End Their Lives?
One such hike led through meadows, down forest trails, and across slippery shoreline rocks all inclined in the same direction.
A second explanation, probably the most widely accepted right now, is that ice is slippery because friction between objects and ice melts the ice, creating a thin lubricating film of water. Archive 2006-02-19
A freeze set in on the 20th and 21st, and this made the higher ground particularly slippery and dangerous.
The grocery store always had a heavy odor of cheese and sour milk, and the dark linoleum floor near the dairy case was always wet and slippery.
To find this with onglet with porcini and winter truffle was fine, the slippery cep and strong truffley aroma making it a rewarding chew. Evening Standard - Home
Convinced that private tutoring is a "slippery slope," the father was certain that a biology tutor would only teach his son that if he made a mess, someone would be there to clean it up and, moreover, this mindset would metastasize into other areas of his son's life. Alex Mallory: Isn't Tutoring Just a Crutch?
You might call it a dreamscape, but they say no, it's "crepuscular" - it's the slippery moment just after you wake up, between sleep and wakefulness. NPR Topics: News
Twisting in the pitch-black water, he raised his hands and felt slippery limestone above him. The Omega Theory
In his review of Jonathan Lethem's Chronic City, Hari Kunzru maintains that what separates this novel from the postmodern novels Lethem clearly admires is that "it’s too good-humored to attain real satiric bite and is often content to drop a name instead of wrestling with the slippery ideas that might make Lethem’s heroes worthy of a true fan’s regard. The Reading Experience
This eternally slippery character then keeps cropping up throughout the story to pass judgment on pivotal events.
They are psyllium, taurine, dandelion, St Mary's Thistle, globe artichoke and slippery elm bark, which have liver protective, restorative properties.
Many people in their 40s and 50s are in their prime, yet some employers seem to consider them on the slippery slope to decrepitude.
We made it like eels, wet and slippery after a shower '. The Times Literary Supplement
We pause on Park Avenue, cabs swooshing past, slick, chill streets, slippery sidewalks, a grey evening, a nondescript night.
But it's worth bearing in mind slick and slippery boxers nearly always have the edge over the big hitters. The Sun
The fallen beechmast was cool and slippery under me, but a good many leaves still clung, yellowed and curling, to the tree above. Dragonfly in Amber
Even non-drinking Jamie got caught up in the fun - sucking down a prune smoothie in one slippery shot.
Wear low-heeled shoes with non-slip soles and check your house for slippery surfaces that might cause you to trip or fall.
That slippery little scut is as slick as a door-to-door Bible salesman.
Loved the comfort it gave me as I drew on its slippery, rubbery tip.
It was beautiful, even if it was bitingly cold and bloody slippery on the roads.
Harry's palms were slippery with sweat.
No slippery politician was going to give me the kind of straight talk I was looking for, but only politicians and platitudes were on offer.
But it was still difficult for the cars to stop on slippery surfaces when something unexpected occurred.
The road is extremely slippery after rain and people fishtail all over it and if it doesn't rain the corrugations rattle your car apart.
In the past, opposers claimed it was the beginning of a ‘slippery slope’ that would lead to parents selecting children for hair colour or intelligence.
A teeny bit wan and slippery, but fine. Times, Sunday Times
She had passed that stage in which a man regards his child with despair; she had passed out of slippery and evasive doughiness into a firm tangibility that made it some pleasure to hold her. A Modern Instance
It's a very slippery slope between ‘productive veteran’ and ‘washed-up geezer.’
The road was slippery after the rain.
Simplicity is a slippery concept, but the best technologies can be learned by looking at the input device, not by studying a manual.
His huge moustache is waxed to slippery perfection. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Bias in the context of this case is a slippery term.
My tennis shoes slipped over the slippery surface of the rock.
Consequently, there was a slimy, slippery area right at the entrance to the main operating room.
That slippery little scut won't be able to stop himself, just wait.
He saw spiny creatures with bloody saucerlike eyes struggling as they were dragged under by boiling masses of slippery black tentacles. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
Soon the moraine squeezes against the river, and Asia and I are forced to hop boulder to slippery boulder.
All component Ying Guang of stair is slippery, fruity, did not highlight, acerb part, the person that lest be opposite, use is caused innocently harm.
Please take great care: slippery rocks, unfenced 200ft drop! Times, Sunday Times
Bath oils used in the bath water make the tub too slippery and should not be used.
MIRRORS (2008, Fox, R, $30) - Here's yet another Asian horror remake that fails to capture the slippery spookery of the original. Latest News
Folsom's neighbor was a famous "musher," a seasoned, self-reliant man, thoroughly accustomed to all the hazards of winter travel, but ten miles from his destination he crossed an inch-deep overflow which rendered the soles of his muk-luks slippery, and ten yards further on, where the wind had laid the glare-ice bare, he lost his footing. Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
On a very slippery surface I came an awful 'purler' on my shoulder. The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913
Westport House has swan pedaloes, train rides, a fun palace, a hill slide, a slippery dip, pitch & putt, rowing boats and log flume rides.
The hallway was lined with black granite tiles and it felt slippery underneath my sock covered feet.
Are there outside steps that are slippery when wet or icy and dangerous in the winter?
It creaked beneath his feet and he ignored the slippery surface.
It's 10 mph faster than its coupe counterpart, because it is a bit more slippery through the air because it produces less downforce than the coupé.
There is no glaze on the surface of the tile, which means that they are cool and not slippery under bare foot. Times, Sunday Times
onyx - a sternum of slippery glass some may enter her throat, unload and expect a morning of without a face or a name none will enter her heart Smokestacked.
This was a lively game of football with two evenly matched teams who played some good football in slippery conditions.
Though a bodyboard is slippery, hours of rubbing can cause rashes.
Nonetheless, I want to constantly acknowledge that the risk of the slippery slope isn't just some bogeyman - it's a reflection of real processes that occur in human institutions.
The slippery slope one has to be careful of is overusing the phrase I'm sorry. Agi Smith: Why Don't People Say 'I'm Sorry'?
They walked along the slippery wooden deck to the raised rear section of the ship, entered the door the dwarf had taken, and groped their way through the dark to the rear of the ship.
They are a bunch of desperate slippery folks, and re-election and banishment is coming upon them soon.
The water was running fast enough to keep any kind of moss from growing on the rocks, so they didn't have to contend with extra slippery rocks as well.
Then Richard had become an asset, someone she wanted to be able to move around, but he was slippery.
One contestant wolfed down an animal tripe taco, while another was asked to try to trap a slippery pig drenched in butter.
Wheels won't bite on a slippery surface.
He slipped because the path was slippery. Times, Sunday Times
The fresh smell and light crunch of celery is a good contrast to bouncy chicken and slippery pasta. Times, Sunday Times
We had to be mindful of every step we took on slippery sidewalk.
Better driv-ing equipment will improve track adhesion in slippery conditions.
The wet wood is very slippery underfoot.
The slippery and wet ground underfoot also dampened any prospect of a free-flowing game.
In areas that may be potentially slippery or wet, apply antislip rubber decals. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
Perhaps in presuming to take some laws more seriously than others I am on a slippery slope. alex. Mordida
They were slippery when wet and gave us problems for a while - and there were several prangs due to running off the mat into the sand, resulting in nose up or ground loop.
The clerk pauses to greet two bulkily clad, dot-faced women wary of crossing the slippery road, but ungallantly fails to raise his regulation top-hat.
The constant rain, the greasy pitch and the slippery ball all conspired to turn this contest into something of a lottery.
It has a torque-sensing limited-slip front differential to give more traction in slippery conditions, and has a full diff-lock option for seriously rugged terrain. Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide
In places the path can be wet and slippery.
She says it was slippery and she could not cut it with a knife. She took it in her hand and placed it in her mouth, but the ‘meat’ was so tough she could not bite through it.
It felt like the first step on a slippery slope to mounting debt.
He is a slippery customer, and should be carefully watched.
Rain seriously affected matters in the tea interval, and we had to bowl on a wet pitch, which soon became very muddy and slippery underfoot, making bowling extremely difficult.
At the waterfall, take care: slippery rocks, unfenced 200ft drop. Times, Sunday Times
At last we saw lights approaching, and another cavass (belonging to our excellent consul) appeared with lots of lanterns and men "with staves and swords," as becometh a Levantine consul, and, escorted by these, we walked a long way over the rough, slippery paving-stones before we reached the Armenian and Greek quarters. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
The road is slippery on the high ground hard by, and it is debated at Lisselan House whether the farrier of the Dragoon Guards shall not be asked to "sharpen" the shoes of the animals employed there, for no local workman will touch them. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
Fresh snow coated the pavement in a thin, slippery skim of white.
Party allegiance itself has become a more slippery concept, as political cross-dressing blurs the lines between the parties.
how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is
It is a slippery path, at the bottom of which lies a hollow curriculum, devoid of meaningful content.
I made my way up very gingerly and after a slippery scrabble up the last bit, arrived back on the surface, with Alan not far behind.
There were inevitable casualties on such steep and slippery ground.
In that context the election packages, dignified artificially by the term manifesto, were based on very slippery assumptions.
The new season's salted anchovies are pearly pink and slippery. Times, Sunday Times
Other prebiotic agents such as psyllium seeds, pectin, aloe vera juice or slippery elm are very good alternatives.
How do we stop from sliding down the slippery slope till we reach the oubliette where lurk the rack, the branding-iron, and the thumbscrew?
They were slippery with mud, filled with rabbit burrows and gopher holes and rather high up.
The mayor describes the union tactics as “thuggish” so you engage in slippery logic, to say the least. Playing the race placard « BuzzMachine
He cuddled up to his colleagues, begging for approval - he was obsequious, smart, slippery.
I shuffle my feet to make the shot, my grip on the racquet slippery from my perspiration.
Tiny yellow flowers were sprinkled throughout the mosses that blanketed the slippery rocks at the waters walls.
The Right will see how political spin and slippery personalities can sell questionable character to the voters.
The sands of the desert gave way to a grass-land, though the grass had a rotten look to it, and was slippery to walk on.
They were connected to the Wharf by long, often slippery metal gangplanks, which could be very steep when the tide went out and hazardous in the rain.
With wide brimmed hats and skin slippery with sun block, they chittered and chattered like sparrows, as they frolicked in their favourite spot.
Besides, some at the paper argued, authorizing the ñ could open the door to French and German accent marks, a slippery style slope that no Times muckamuck was prepared to tackle.
The stairs had become slippery with wear.
Early on both sides struggled to master a blustery wind and a sometimes treacherous surface was made slippery by sheeting rain, but it was the visitors who threatened first.
He insists on hobbling all the way along the slippery garden path to see me out. Times, Sunday Times
Oliver - Sure there's a slippery slope towards some sort of guilt-ridden Spartanism, but owning a Hummer, to me, is well past the line drawn by any sensitive, aware American. 0 to 60 in 3h, 45m
a slippery bar of soap
Fear not if the road is slippery or especially bumpy, as the friendly traction control light will illuminate and the electronic gubbins will kill wheelspin and steady your trajectory in a jerk-free manner.
Liberals may be humoring themselves, but for the moment it's fun to watch slippery conservative politicians—Newt, Mitt Romney—try to scramble to ride the tiger.
The docks are high over the black water, which slams against the retaining walls; stone steps descend, made slippery by seaweed.
This is the summer we nail that slippery little scut's pelt to the barn door, after salting it down.
So my holiday went from slippery beam to beaming smiles. The Sun
The boat's pitching all over the place, the mast is a 70-foot-tall, wet, slippery stick.
It is a work of perfect weighting that shows that Hodgkin can still patrol the slippery frontiers between abstraction and representation.
This method can be used for apoplectics manifesting dry stool or constipation, yellowish fur, and thready and slippery pulse.
There were inevitable casualties on such steep and slippery ground.
Once one deals in principles that are so fundamental, intractable and as slippery as fairness, then the devil, as one says, is in working through its details.
The path is slippery and ascends into a narrow valley.
We made it like eels, wet and slippery after a shower '. The Times Literary Supplement
Then, with a shove he is off, gliding across 10 metres of slippery plastic, making a messy landing in the soapy water at the end of the run.
Animal welfare and the animalisation of human beings produce particularly slippery arguments although the recipients of transplanted organs naturally tend to have less reservation about the latter issue.
A wild west slippery slide, merry-go-round, trail bikes and furry Easter Bunny all coloured the fair, but a helicopter joyride was the biggest drawcard for three-year-old Georgia.
This makes the term a rather slippery one and perhaps best avoided. Critical Social Research
But you are still slippery when it comes to actually fixing that date to meet up.
When it appears to the untutored eye that any movement of the trailer would cause the whole slippery cargo to overbalance, it is re-hitched to the tractor which, grumbling and snorting, makes its laborious way back up the slope from the beach. Country diary: South Uist
It felt smooth and slippery, like good soaproot, but more, and my hands got so clean! The Plains of Passage
The walk up the river bed was more of a scramble, as it had rained overnight and the large, algae covered boulders were treacherous and slippery.
It was slippery, Bennett said, much more "gelatinous" than his previous squid quarry. Monster of the Deep
Showers spray everywhere, creating soggy toilet paper and slippery floors.
At least sardines are tiny and slippery and you can usually fork them through the tiny opening.
There's bound to be a slippery character behind a move like that. The Sun
We were doing the elephant dung counts in the Triangle region and headed out to the Golden Highway, which bisected the West Caprivi in a seemingly endless stretch of white calcrete, corrugated in the dry season and treacherously slippery in the wet season. The Elephant's Secret Sense
The original formula contained four herbs: burdock root, Indian rhubarb root, sheep sorrel and slippery elm.
My heart thumps loudly and the gun feels slippery in my sweaty hands.
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
But it's worth bearing in mind slick and slippery boxers nearly always have the edge over the big hitters. The Sun
It's soapy, slippery, and no good for hair and leaves the bottoms of your feet much too slick to make it advisable for bathtime.
I'm McCloskey, and you are Slippery George -- an animal that's known over the 'varsal world as a The Garies and Their Friends
He was barely controlling a long leash attached to a reddish-gold puppy that was all long legs and loud skitter on the slippery wood floors. FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
The next hour was spent in shoving and pulling at slippery black bodies in a darkness only less black, in tripping over hawsers and barking our shins on crates and bollards. Try Anything Twice
The angular stem, integrated front brake - it's built into the 795 forks - and aerofoil shaping looks slippery enough, resistance-averse riders. Times, Sunday Times
He's a slippery character whose public statements remind you of certain other politicians.
The image of slippery, evasive politicians will be far more damaging than the details of the treaty. Times, Sunday Times
Practically all supermarket pears are pale travesties of the real thing, which have a combination of slippery, honeyed sweetness and a tight, close-grained texture of the flesh.
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise has tentacles in slippery abundance. Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival

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