slipper

Example Sentences

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While many of us are treading carefully to avoid a slip in the frosty weather, scientists led by the University of Leicester have been investigating how to make surfaces even slippier!

From Science Daily • Jan. 17, 2024

I'm generally a a stickler for words and intentionality, so this all makes this inherently slippery slope even "slippier" when all of these arguments are posited.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2023

One contractor, Immunity Inc., founded by a former N.S.A. analyst, embarked on a slippier slope.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2021

The question of who owns a fossil gets slippier the further back one goes.

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2019

It was just as the gyptian had said: the little craft was stiffer, more responsive, and very much slippier through the water than she’d ever felt before.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman