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159 examples of Slipping in a sentence

Belgium is slipping into the danger zone.
Indeed, the European market is already slipping away.
They felt their status slipping.
The announcement prompted public health experts to renew their warnings that the world risks slipping into a deadly, post-antibiotic era.
I was inspired to take the BAM across Siberia by Dervla Murphy’s book, Through Siberia by Accident, even though Murphy, an intrepid Irish grandmother, broke a leg slipping in the train car’s primitive toilet.
Meanwhile, in Yemen, the possibility of adequate central authority is slipping away as the country confronts several seemingly intractable problems – from internal divisions and separatist movements to Al Qaeda’s franchise in the Arabian Peninsula and a failing economy.
Most alarmingly, Chechen rebels enjoyed considerable freedom of operation in Georgia, creating supply bases on its territory and receiving medical help in Georgian hospitals before slipping back into Russia.
Just when Macron was placing his hopes in Merkel’s power to lead at the European level, her grip on domestic power was slipping.
If US defense innovation continues to erode, not only will America’s defense capabilities suffer; the country will also risk slipping in terms of commercial innovation and competitiveness.
With the consent of both the US and Iraq's new leadership, EU governments should also offer to organize an international conference uniting all those with a stake in Iraqi stability, including Iraq's neighbors, to work out a strategy and commit resources in order to save Iraq from slipping into protracted turmoil.
After the first two arrows of Abenomics – expansionary monetary and fiscal policies – raised expectations that Japan’s economy would finally escape stagnation, the country began slipping back into recession in the second quarter of this year.
A few things need to happen rather quickly – specifically, over the next several weeks and months – if the continent is to minimize the risk of slipping into another prolonged period of under-performance and additional asymmetrical downside financial risk.
With Egypt’s military restoring its grip on power, the country’s hoped-for political renaissance is slipping from view.
This often prevents them from pursuing better and more stable employment, leaving them – and their families – at constant risk of slipping back into poverty.
Whereas California has stalled in the virus-containment phase, other states (Florida, Texas) are slipping back into the danger zone, with doubling days at or below 18.
With public debt in Greece and Italy still far too high, the eurozone still at risk of slipping into a recession that would significantly worsen both countries’ fiscal positions, and Italian politics as volatile as ever, it would pay to know.
Everyone was as united and enthusiastic as they had been a week earlier, when Lukashenko was on the ropes and the country was slipping from his grasp.
In May 2019, one of us (Dugger) used Dalio’s framework to argue that the Fed was again at risk of slipping into MP3 and losing its independence.
Entrenched defenders of the old patriotic story feel their world slipping away, while advocates of a new pantheon view the previous one as a source of arbitrary hierarchy rather than unity.
Some of this divergence is due to London itself slipping, most likely owing to its weakening property market and the cooling investment environment brought on by Brexit.
The latest ranking, in mid-September, showed that while London remains second only to New York globally, its relative position has been slipping.
Trump came to power by inciting hysteria among whites who think their privilege and control of the country are slipping away.
Now that they were overcome by fatigue, they trailed their feet, slipping in the mud, with the mournful melancholy of a flock stricken by an epidemic.
He looked at him, with his muzzle, his green eyes, his large ears, a degenerate abortion, with an obscure intelligence and savage cunning, slowly slipping back into the animality of old.
She was following him slowly, delayed by the painful slipping of her sabots into the ruts; and without raising her head she murmured:"I have enough trouble, good God! don't give me any more.
Struck in the back as he was entreating his mates, he had fallen on to his knees, and slipping on to one hip he was groaning on the ground with eyes still full of tears.
He had been obliged to seize the oak guides, the joists along which the cages slid; and suspended over the void he traversed the length of the cross-beams with which they were joined from point to point, slipping along, sitting down, turning over, simply buttressing himself on an elbow or a knee, with tranquil contempt of death.
Three times over he thought that she was slipping from him and falling back into that deep sea of which the tide was roaring beneath them.
The bench, not properly smoothed, was soaked in moisture, and so slippery that they had to hold themselves on vigorously to avoid slipping off.
Those not slipping through the sieves pierced with 100 to 800 holes are in the second order.
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