slipperiness

Example Sentences

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The new method proved exceptionally effective, as the team created the slipperiest liquid surface in the world.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2023

As he explains in his memoir, Ronnie was “a conman, fantasist, occasional jailbird, and my father. . . . Ronnie’s life was spent walking on the thinnest, slipperiest ice you can imagine.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2020

East End Underworld by Raphael Samuel Published in 1981, this is the story of Arthur Harding, who was born in 1896 and became known as “the slipperiest character in Brick Lane”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2019

Not only is no one morally exemplary, but the title character is also the slipperiest of the bunch.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2017

Among the slipperiest of all is AIDS, which evolves new antigens even as it sits within an individual patient, thereby eventually overwhelming his or her immune system.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond