How to use slippery in a sentence

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• He wrapped some fabric tape around the rubber handgrips to make them less slippery.From the entry handgrip
• The habit of lying can quickly become a slippery slope.From the entry slope
• He needed a towel for wiping the slippery floor.From the entry towel
• The descent into the cavern was wet and slippery.From the entry descent
• She's gotten herself on a slippery slope to being dismissed.From the entry slippery slope
• The roads were so slippery that I couldn't stop, and I bumped my car into the car in front of me.From the entry bump into
• I think basing your actions off an assumption like that is a slippery slope that is going to get you in trouble.From the entry slippery slope
• PUL is a slippery material and is not very easy to sew.2023, The Complete Manual of Sewing: 120 Visual Lessons for Beginners, C&T Publishing, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry pul
• You can also use a Teflon presser foot, which reduces the slippery aspect.2023, The Complete Manual of Sewing: 120 Visual Lessons for Beginners, C&T Publishing, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry pul
• Our grasp on a common story and mythos is weak and slippery.”2021 August 15, Hayley Garrigus, 2:42 from the start, in You Can't Kill Meme, spoken by self (Hayley Garrigus). From the entry memetically
• But when road conditions are slippery, the limited-slip differential reduces or prevents differential action.2019, Kirk VanGelder, Fundamentals of Automotive Maintenance and Light Repair, page 558. From the entry limited-slip differential
• Tia Cyrus closes the film by tribbing out on Jodi Taylor's slippery vaggieburger.2016 August, “5-Star Fuck Reviews”, in Club (Pornography), Paramus, NJ: Club Publications, Inc, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69?. From the entry tribbing
• With their slippery, elongated body (up to 1.5 metres long), the confusion is completely understandable.2014 May 15, “Is it a snake? Is it an eel? No, it's a zangee!”, in amydeacon.weebly.com. From the entry zangee
• A little on again, off again, skiff of rain made the road slippery in spots.2013, J. T. Brewer, Stewards of the White Circle: Calm Before the Storm. From the entry skiff
• Ut's slippery, semi-improvised antirock was shrill and swampy, an unpredictable amalgam of loose strumming and phantom sputtering.2006 November 10, Jessica Hopper, “Ten Under the Radar”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry antirock
• "Why would you think that?" He was a slippery little eel.2003, Catherine Anderson, Only by Your Touch. From the entry eel
• I mean that floor's slippery - I only polished it this morning.2001 March 29, Gervase Phinn, Over Hill and Dale, Penguin UK, →ISBN. From the entry zimmer
• As we have seen, the rationalia of vicarious liability are slippery.2000, Peter Birks, English Private Law, volume II, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 521. From the entry rationalia
• And once you enter the land of metaphor, you are on a very slippery slope toward Epsteinism.1995, Michael E. Kinsley, Big babies, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 207. From the entry Epsteinism
• He made it, hacking away with slow, painful strokes, his axe-handle slippery with his sweat.1954, Daniel Talbot, A Treasury of Mountaineering Stories, page 239. From the entry letterbox
• The image in my mind, is of true hip-hip taking a slide down a razor bladed, slippery slope.2023, Bryan Hollomon Williams, Hollomon Speaks: Thinking Through 2020 & 2021. From the entry razor bladed
• I shall get the sneaky, slippery eel yet."2016, Jody Hedlund, Newton and Polly: A Novel of Amazing Grace, page 131. From the entry eel
• Quickly she slammed the door shut and panicking wound the window up as fast as her slippery fingers would allow.2012, Rural Affairs, Anna Hutton-North, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry wind
• “Mmm, this will be good,” she murmured as she eagerly dug her chopsticks into the sticky, slippery beans.2012, Rachel Herz, “Let’s Eat”, in That’s Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, New York, N.Y.; London: W. W. Norton &…. From the entry nattō
• But too much turn, and the plane could start to slide and skid across the slippery flight deck.2009, James W. Huston, Balance of Power: A Novel, →ISBN, page 457. From the entry yellow shirt
• The alto saxophonist Greg Osby has a brittle and dartlike style, well suited to exploratory post-bop or slippery free-funk.2007 January 26, The New York Times, “Jazz Listings”, in New York Times. From the entry dartlike
• Slippery as a 'barrel load of eels' they are.2006, Mike Lloyd, Only the Gods Decide. From the entry greased lightning
• She was dressed in something slippery looking, mermaidish.2006, Tim Rundquist, Otter Tail Review, page 74. From the entry mermaidish
• Here and there the way is so steep and slippery that I can only advance on all fours.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 534. From the entry on all fours
• Does the antispin axle produce lateral instability on slippery roads?1969 November, Popular Science, volume 195, number 5, page 123. From the entry antispin
• Slippery as a butcher's apron it is, and I comes a gutser twice before I gets down to the stag.1964, Ron Helmer, Stag Party, page 82. From the entry come a gutser
• The paths through the beet-fields were simply a succession of lumps, as slippery as a greasy pole, with huge pools everywhere.1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC. From the entry greasy pole
• Now the past exonerative and other slippery passive usages are rampant (or should that be, are being run rampantly?) throughout the press.2018, Doug Bandow, Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry past exonerative
• Yet this enterprise was a slippery one; fictitious etymologies and overclever wordplay were the province of the logodaedalus: a dangerously cunning wordsmith..2018, Alexander Marr, Raphaele Garrod, Jose Ramon Marcaida, Logodaedalus: Word Histories of Ingenuity in Early Modern Europe. From the entry logodaedalus
• Because of the snow at the pass, the actual trail was transformed into a confusion of random crisscrossings with relentless slippery scree.2008, Michal Reed, High Altitude Interiors, page 106. From the entry crisscrossing
• To these pedestrians fled from the shelter of shops, tight-rope-walked across, and then fled along the slippery sidewalks to seek another refuge from the deluge.1924 April 6, Wade Griswold, “A Night in San Salvador”, in Illustrated Daily News, volume 1, number 200, Los Angeles, Calif.: Cornelius…. From the entry tight-rope-walk

Meaning of slippery

1. adjective Of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.
2. adjective Evasive; difficult to pin down.
3. adjective Liable to slip; not standing firm.

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Questions about slippery in a sentence

How do you use slippery in a sentence?

Slippery is used as an adjective. For example: “Oily substances render things slippery.”

What is a short sentence with slippery?

“a slippery person”

What does slippery mean?

Slippery means of a surface, having low friction, often due to being covered in a non-viscous liquid, and therefore hard to grip, hard to stand on without falling, etc.