slip

City are unbeaten in their past nine games in all competitions since suffering back-to-back Premier League defeats to Tottenham and Brighton in August to slip well off the pace.

“All summer, there had been fewer cars on the road in Southern California, and everyone remarked on how with no smog, the sunsets weren’t deep, heated crimson. Just quiet slipping into darkness.”

Tick the paddle shifter, the wailing revs slip slightly—a kind of warble—then head through the roof again.

Announcing the plans in September, Sir Keir Starmer said they were a means to stop people "slipping into the shadow economy."

I walked to the neighborhood bistro for lunch and proudly slipped into the booth, feeling that heaviness I’d longed for, that glimpse of a different future.