slippery
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The samples revealed a 100 foot thick layer of pelagic clay, an extremely soft, slippery sediment formed over millions of years as microscopic particles slowly settled to the seafloor.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
"We applied it liberally to the leg just to try and get it as slippery as possible to help it to come out. It made all the difference."
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
But many of their homes aren’t suitable for aging because of stairs, bathtubs, narrow doorways and slippery tile floors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
She writes equations on the board to explain these findings, equations that begin to glow as the production moves from the realm of pure science to the more slippery domain of art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
The ground rose, and the river ran swiftly between tumbled boulders slippery with moss.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Keep these traits in check the next time you find yourself in a horror film scenario: curiosity—the genre’s original sin—and dissatisfaction, its slipperier cousin.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025
The iPhone SE is slightly taller, wider, and heavier than the Mini — not to mention slipperier with its rounded corners.
From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2022
He also said the ice surface was slipperier than during visits on sunny days in previous years.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022
He struggled to find consistent velocity with his pitches and quality grip with the MLB baseball, which had smaller seams and a slipperier cover.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021
Ma was growing heavier and slipperier, and my arms were aching from holding on to her.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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
Salmon are slippery fish, and Loki was the slipperiest of salmon; he wriggled and tried to slip through Thor’s fingers, but Thor simply gripped the fish harder and squeezed it tightly, down by the tail.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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