Example Sentences

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Math and reading scores had been sliding before the pandemic, but the latest results show a precipitous drop that erases earlier gains in the years leading up to 2012.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 20, 2023

Palace had been sliding a bit themselves until they beat Leeds last time out, which was a good game to watch.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2022

Far-removed from the financial front lines of the company, they had had no real clue that the company had been sliding towards bankruptcy for months.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2018

He had been sliding since he was 12, when he threw a snowball at his bobsled coach’s face, so the coach made him try skeleton instead.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2018

He shifted his hand on the stick, gently, and the glider which had been sliding along on its single wheel, lifted ever so gently into the air.

From Frigid Fracas by Reynolds, Mack