Definition: 1. To slide a short distance by accident so that you fall or nearly fall. 2. To slide out of position or out of your hand. 3. To put something somewhere quickly, quietly or secretly.
Use 'slip' in a sentence:
1. He began to slip into debt.
2. It was his fourth pink slip in two years.
3. He recited the whole poem without making a single slip.
4. I waited my chance and slipped out when no one was looking.
5. Did I call you Richard? Sorry, Robert, just a slip of the tongue.
6. One slip and you could fall to your death.
7. Share prices slipped in sympathy with the German market.
8. I bet he let slip that I'd gone to America.
9. Jack pulled the slip of paper from his shirt pocket.
10. I managed to slip out of the room unseen.
11. They'd slipped some money to the guards.
12. We cannot let this moment slip away.
13. I tried to slip up the stairs unnoticed.
14. He slipped and almost fell.
15. An elderly woman was strewing the floor with chalk so that the dancing shoes would not slip.
16. I happened to let it slip that he had given me £ 1 000 for the car.
17. The road is icy so mind you don't slip.
18. There's been a slip-up somewhere.
19. Didn't Frank just slip on the ice?
20. I knew he would pick me up on that slip sooner or later.
21. The table mats and coasters have a non-slip, soft green backing.
22. My wedding dress has a very full skirt so I need to wear a good quality slip.
23. The ship slipped into the harbour at night.
24. As I ran up the stairs, my foot slipped and I fell.
25. Be careful not to slip.
26. They'd slipped the guards some money.
27. She tried not to let slip what she knew.
28. We can't afford to slip up.
29. He removed his brown slip-ons.
30. She allowed victory to slip from her grasp.
31. I grabbed him, but he slipped from my grasp.
32. He took a short length of rope and swiftly tied a slip knot.
33. He's been off work with a slipped disc.
34. She said nothing in case her temper slipped out of gear.
35. She slipped away without him being aware of it.
36. Don't let the chance to work abroad slip through your fingers.
37. I wrote it down on a slip of paper.
38. She wrote her name and address on a slip of paper.
39. I managed to slip a few jokes into my speech.
40. I managed to slip in a few jokes.
41. His hat had slipped over one eye.
42. You slip on the banana skin.
43. It amazed him how easily one could slip into a routine.
44. The first type of glacier flow is called: basal slip.
45. The animal had slipped free and escaped.
46. Their support gradually slipped away.
47. That's three times she's beaten me ─ I must be slipping!
48. We tried to contact all former students, but one or two slipped through the net.
