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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Is it rude to slip out of a party without saying goodbye?
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 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
City will somehow have to fashion a vast improvement in the short period between this win and the play-offs if they are not to slip out at that stage.
From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025
Because of historic inequality whose legacy persists, unconscious racism can slip out even in well-intentioned people.
From Salon • Aug. 3, 2024
These tentacles they are rubbery and sometimes slip out of my hand.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
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