Use slipped in a sentence
Sentences starting with slipped
- Slipped on the wet grass, and Chartersea had him pinned before he caught his guard. [9]
- Slipped on the smooth coating --I almost had him. [5]
Sentences ending with slipped
- The duke seemed to see my game, struggled against it, tried to rush in under my guard, made a vicious lunge that would have ended me then and there had he not slipped. [9]
- In going through the narrow pass which leads over the Orontes, the horses of your mother's carriage slipped. [10]
- In the first place, in regard to the Presidency of the United States, a cog had unwittingly been slipped. [9]
- She flung herself on one side, thrust her hind quarters under the pole, and kicked desperately, lifting the chariot quite off the ground; the young charioteer lost his footing and slipped. [10]
- He felt ashamed, and with one arm covered his legs from which his cloak had in fact slipped. [2]
Short sentences using slipped
- Yes, he slipped one in. [9]
- Nick slipped from his horse. [9]
- The occasion slipped by. [11]
Sentences containing slipped two or more times
- He never knew that Sid lay nightly watching, and frequently slipped the bandage free and then leaned on his elbow listening a good while at a time, and afterward slipped the bandage back to its place again. [5]
- But I had slipped one out, for fun, when the count began, and now I slipped it back and said, 'I think there is a mistake--there are eleven hundred and seven; let us count again. [5]
- Our feet slipped and slipped as we hove, and burning bits of sails and splinters dropping from aloft fell unheeded on our heads and shoulders. [9]
More example sentences with the word slipped in them
- I have wanted you ever since that night long ago when I slipped out of your bed and ran away. [9]
- It was not without great fear and trepidation that little Nell slipped off her shoes and gliding through the store-room of old curiosities, where Mr Brass--the ugliest piece of goods in all the stock--lay sleeping on a mattress, passed into her own little chamber. [12]
- He was seized with such violent terror that he stood as if spellbound, the goat slipped from his shoulders, and he felt as if his heart had ceased to beat. [10]
- The old man, whose name was Ripley, wore a nut-brown hunting shirt trimmed with red cotton; and he had no sooner slipped the packs from his horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. [9]
- A young lady, who had listened to a solemn sermon of Dr. Posthelwaite's, slipped out of Church before the prayers were ended, and hurried into that deserted portion of the town about the Court House where on week days business held its sway. [9]
- Stars were blinking when he reached his old hiding-place in the split of canyon wall, and by their aid he slipped through the dense thickets to the grassy enclosure. [13]
- She knew the way without a guide to the spring from which Paulus had brought her water at their first meeting, and she now slipped away, and went down to it with a pretty little pitcher of burnt clay in her hand. [10]
- The ice gave way under one of the foremost soldiers, and one leg slipped into the water. [2]
- A threatening letter was slipped under the door of a house where he was visiting. [6]
- When the sun was fairly down, we slipped back to the hotel in the charitable gloaming, and went to bed again. [5]
- Our captain, however, was a cool man and a seaman, and slipped through the cruisers lying in wait off the Capes very triumphantly. [9]
- As they stood waiting in irresolution a grave man of middle age and a disinterested manner sauntered up to the travelers, and slipped into friendly relations with them. [4]
- He made a vicious dash at me that boded no good, but I slipped behind the hominy block; and Polly Ann, who was like a panther on her feet, dashed at him and gave him a buffet in the cheek that sent him reeling again. [9]
- One of the vagabonds had certainly slipped into the garden to steal fruit or vegetables, or even honey from the bee hives. [10]
- He slipped it upon the string, and was about to haul it up, when the drunken orator on the platform caught him by the arm with fiery courage. [11]
- Above it, and under the big trees, shone a thousand glittering lights: there was a crowd at the gate, and instead of saying, "Open, Sesame," Peter slipped two bright fifty-cent pieces to the red-faced German ticketman, and in they went. [9]
- She evidently felt unable to look at him without laughing, but could not resist looking at him: so to be out of temptation she slipped quietly behind one of the columns. [2]
- I set the umbrella slowly and carefully on end against the wall, but as soon as I took my hand away, its heel slipped from under it, and down it came again with another bang. [5]
- Then, as she turned away, from her hand slipped a little gold-bound purse, and as I picked it up a clipping from a newspaper fluttered out. [9]
- The hand that took the paper deftly slipped a shilling into the cold, skinny palm. [11]
- The next ascent took grip of fingers as well as toes, but he climbed steadily, swiftly, to reach the projecting corner, and slipped around it. [13]
- The moon dipped to the uneven line of the ridge-pole and slipped behind the stone chimney. [9]
- The trail slipped to the edge of a precipice, and at our feet the valley widened. [9]
- He started roughly to shoulder his way out, and whether from accident or design Captain Harrod slipped in front of him, I never knew. [9]
- Impulse urged her to kiss the sufferer, but as she bent over the mourner the copper dish slipped from her knees and fell rattling on the floor. [10]
- His hand slipped to his waist. [9]
- Atossa slipped back to her mother. [10]
- He was glad to have come to some conclusion, at any rate provisionally, with regard to these matters, for six days had slipped away since the works had been begun in the palace of Lochias, and Hadrian's arrival was nearing rapidly. [10]
- I slipped up to bed, feeling ruther blue, on accounts of the thing playing out that way after I had took so much trouble and run so much resk about it. [5]
- Her head was thrown back against the seat of the chair off which she had slipped, and her pale face was lifeless and horrible to look at, with its half-closed eyes and dropped jaw. [10]
- Hendon, always alert, thought he would like to know why the officer followed the woman out; so he slipped softly into the dusky hall and listened. [5]
- The impulse of this was so strong, that they slipped, and quivered on the precipitous edge: but Pierre righted then, and presently they were safe. [11]
- And sometimes, when they slipped away, dived after them. [9]
- He slipped in there, avoiding the crowded lobby with its shifting groups and its haze of smoke,--plainly to be seen behind the great plates of glass,--went upstairs, and gained room Number. [9]
- Tim Fogarty slipped them into me pocket when I was leavin' Newcastle. [9]
- He ran up the steps before March, and opened the carpenter's temporary valve in the door frame, and led the way into a darkness smelling sweetly of unpainted wood-work and newly dried plaster; their feat slipped on shavings and grated on sand. [8]
- The wall threw the sound across, and could have made no greater roar if it had slipped in avalanche. [13]
- They had helped the sisters to receive the first callers; but when Frau Barbara Behaim, a cousin of the late Frau Maria, had appeared, they gave up their post to her, and slipped quietly into the next room to escape the throng. [10]
- Ephriam cowered in the shadow of the tent, from which he had slipped, and pressed his ear close to the wall. [10]
- Time slipped on-between the present moment and the deed to be done there were but a certain number of minutes. [10]
- Louis Trudel saw the paper burning, and, glancing down, he noticed that one piece--the last--had slipped to the floor and was lying under the table. [11]
- I turned towards the north, and slipped and stumbled along. [4]
- The hours passed, the miles slipped behind, and the wall of rock loomed in the fore. [13]
- He had forbidden the idle young singers who wanted to go with him to follow, but one had secretly slipped after, and, in one of the dark corridors of the big house, full of nooks and corners, he suddenly heard a voice call his name. [10]
- She slipped into the house, threw off her things and made straight for the dining room. [5]
- In one of the great temples of Baalbec a keystone has slipped, but how rare is that occurrence! [6]
- Pulling Nick through the gate, I slammed it, and he was only beginning to protest when I had him safe within my door, and the bolt slipped behind him. [9]
- She slipped to the floor, her rosary in her fingers. [11]
- Venters waited until the faint slam of a door assured him she had reached the house, and then, taking up his rifle, he noiselessly slipped through the bushes, down the knoll, and on under the dark trees to the edge of the grove. [13]
- I slipped around the corner of the house, seized the pistol, primed it with a trembling hand, and came back to behold Polly Ann, with flaming cheeks, facing them. [9]
- Everything being ready, the command was given, "Men, do your duty," and the box being instantly slipped from beneath his feet, he died almost instantaneously. [5]
- I slipped off the cloak, looked at Jamond, who murmured once again, 'Courage,' and then I stepped out swiftly, and made for a low, large dais at one side of the room. [11]
- One such from the circle of my own friends, sixteen years old, slipped away from his nursery, and dashed in under, an assumed name among the red-legged Zouaves, in whose company he got an ornamental bullet-mark in one of the earliest conflicts of the war. [6]
- Then he raised the brute's heavy head and kissed his dead eyes, and as it slipped from his hand and fell on the floor, he started to his feet, shaking his fist, and exclaiming: "Yes, you have poisoned him! [10]
- Mr. Fairweather slipped the book he was reading into a half-open drawer, and pushed in the drawer. [6]
- I slipped back the bolt and peered out into the night. [9]
- He crept down the bank, watching with all his eyes, slipped into the water, swam three or four strokes and climbed into the skiff that did "yawl" duty at the boat's stern. [5]
- I slipped out the back way, locked the door behind me, put the key in my pocket and started off, chuckling to myself and comfortable. [5]
- The poplar wreath that had crowned his curls had slipped over his pretty face, but even in sleep he still held his flute clasped fast in his fingers. [10]
- They laughed and talked with each other in excellent spirits; and one varlet near the coffin, who had slipped off his mask, winked at me repeatedly, as if to inform me that it was not his funeral. [4]
- Count Frohlinger rose, struggling for breath; his hand sought his hunting-knife, but in the fall it had slipped from its sheath and was lying in the snow. [10]
- Because I went straight to Far Harbor and got you into a peck of trouble, right away, and then slipped quietly into Canada, and put on the outfit of a travelling salesman. [9]
- Jethro did not speak, but slipped his hand into hers, and thus they stood for a long time gazing at the snow fields between the pines on the heights of Coniston. [9]
- As he went, some one touched his arm and slipped a book into his hand. [11]
- I slipped in softly and bent over him. [5]
- As he did so, a figure slipped from behind the press in the bedroom, swiftly raised the trap-door in the flooring, then, shadowed by the door leading into the hall-way, waited for him. [11]
- They slipped away so quietly that they were not missed from the ship for several hours. [5]
- Aw, so aisy, so aisy, I slipped away out av the fight! [11]
- But the Captain smoked in agony until the clouds of two days slipped away from under the stars, for he was trying to decide a Question. [9]
- As the steamer slipped westward my spirits rose, to reach a climax of exhilaration when I saw the towers of New York rise gleaming like huge stalagmites in the early winter sun. [9]
- I had just slipped up on poor smiling and complacent Dowley so nice and easy and softly, that he never suspected anything was going to happen till the blow came crashing down and knocked him all to rags. [5]
- Shortly afterward they slipped out of the house in the deepening twilight, and moved toward the river with their precious box. [5]
- Her husband has slipped on the ice and broken his leg. [5]
- Tom said he slipped Jim's hat off of his head and hung it on a limb right over him, and Jim stirred a little, but he didn't wake. [5]
- The sceptre had slipped from his hand and lay in his lap. [10]
- Still the blankets slipped deliberately away, till my breast was uncovered. [5]
- The precious minutes slipped by; among so many bewitching songsters he found it hard to choose, and all the harder because the promised penalty for an error was so terrible that it unsettled his judgment and made him afraid to trust his own ears. [5]
- Thus many minutes slipped away; while the leech was waiting for the old man to speak, Horapollo waited for Philippus. [10]
- Hour after hour slipped away, and still he slept like the dead. [5]
- As the world slipped away from him, a soft shoulder caught his head, and out of a vast distance there came to him the wailing cry: "He is dying! [11]
- But Sid's fingers slipped and the bowl dropped and broke. [5]
- He untied the skiff at the stern, slipped into it, and was soon rowing cautiously upstream. [5]
- An instant after, she slipped out behind the millstones, and crept as cleverly and as silently as a snake along the ground under the darkened base of the centurion's house, and lay close under Sirona's window. [10]
- With this purpose she slipped out again, and crossing the road, sat down upon a door-step just opposite. [12]
- Uarda nodded; little Scherau, who had been crouching on the floor beside her, gave Uarda a loving glance, dimmed with tears, and quietly slipped out of the tent. [10]
- While they were saying their parting words I slipped out and set my course for Marget's house to see what was happening there. [5]
- One thing he saw clearly, that Eldon Parr had slipped into what was still, for him, a meaningless hell. [9]
- We left the, Sandwich Islands eight or ten days--or twelve days ago--I don't know which, I have been so hard at work until today (at least part of each day,) that the time has slipped away almost unnoticed. [5]
- She slipped past rugged pinnacles, like buttresses to the island, here trailed with vines, valanced with shrubs of unnameable beauty, and yonder shrivelled and bare like the skin of an elephant. [11]
- But instantly he returned alone, and half ran, half slipped down to her. [13]
- Much that they remembered had slipped from her mind, and what she recalled did not arouse the same poetic feeling as they experienced. [2]
- Honora did not recognize the handwriting, but she slipped the envelope into her lap, fearful of what it might contain, and, when she gained the privacy of her rooms, read it with quickening breath. [9]
- Thompson nodded "All ready," and then we threw ourselves forward with all our might; but Thompson slipped, and slumped down with his nose on the cheese, and his breath got loose. [5]
- Then the duchess reached once more for the mirror to assure herself that her eyes had not been deceived, but her fingers trembled so with excitement that the glass slipped from her hand and fell to the floor where it broke in a thousand pieces. [10]
- Its metallic clang rang loud and far through the dim dawn; a deaf man might have heard it in the deepest recess of the sanctuary--and yet the minutes slipped by--a quarter of an hour--and no one had come at its call. [10]
- I slipped the ramrod down it to make sure it was loaded, then I laid it across the turnip barrel, pointing towards pap, and set down behind it to wait for him to stir. [5]
- Forgetful of my presence, he stood murmuring in her ear like a lover; and as I watched them my trouble slipped from my mind, and gave place to a vaguer regret that I had been a wanderer throughout my life. [9]
- One day Joan played a cunning truck on her jailer, and not only slipped out of her prison, but locked him up in it. [5]
- I slipped the piece into my own hunting shirt. [9]
- As the players picked them up at last and spread them out fan- like, Lady Jane slipped something into the hand of Lucy Rives. [11]
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