slip out
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See let slip out .
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Also, . Leave quietly and unobtrusively, as in She slipped out without telling a soul , or Let's slip away before the sermon , or Jason and Sheila slipped off to Bermuda . The use of slip with away dates from about 1450; out from the first half of the 1500s; off from the mid-1800s.
Example Sentences
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Slip out of the house and hurl it into the sea.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Slip out through the back window with the boys and work around to the stumps.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Bindloss, Harold
Slip out and creep noiselessly down the stairs.
From Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
Slip out the cold plate and lay down the hot one at the right, as you have before, and put the cold plates neatly in a pile on the sideboard.
From A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl Margaret's Saturday Mornings by Benton, Caroline French
Slip out into a back street, so that Alfieri may not see you….
From The Wheel O' Fortune by Tracy, Louis
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