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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“There’s been a whole series of legal challenges he’s been able to slip out of, but voters are at least vaguely aware of them,” Jillson said.
From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026
Palace were in the midst of a 12-game winless run across all competitions, which had seen them slip out of the Premier League's top five and plummet towards the relegation zone.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
Morgan, might slip out of the top 10 entirely in the 2031 ranking, and finance-industry greats like Warren Buffett and John Bogle have never scored highly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
"We let the virus slip out through our fingers when it first emerged in the poultry industry," said corresponding senior author Thijs Kuiken, a professor at Erasmus MC.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 2026
She attempted to paddle in the afternoon, but the oar threatened to slip out of her fingers.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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