SLIPPERY in a Sentence

Learn SLIPPERY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

37 example sentences for SLIPPERY, such as:

1. The road was wet and slippery.
2. The tiled floor was wet and slippery.
3. He struggled to keep his footing on the slippery floor.
4. Because the sidewalks are very slippery, please be careful.
5. We had to be mindful of every step we took on slippery sidewalk.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLIPPERY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
slippery
 a.  smooth; being such as to cause things to slip or slide
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  They picked their way across the slippery stepping stones that bridged the mud of Decatur Street and continued up Peachtree, through a thinning crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  Hatred of Rhett burned in her heart as she plodded along the slippery way.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  She revolted from the complacent ugliness of Mrs. Peniston's black walnut, from the slippery gloss of the vestibule tiles, and the mingled odour of sapolio and furniture-polish that met her at the door.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
4  Her chair was out in the open, exposed to their gaze, and it was a hard-slatted, quivery, slippery church-parlor chair, likely to collapse publicly and without warning.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  In the not very romantic solitude of the locked bathroom she sat on the slippery edge of the tub and wept.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  That instant, as he fell on the whale's slippery back, the boat righted, and was dashed aside by the swell, while Radney was tossed over into the sea, on the other flank of the whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
7  Over this lip, as over a slippery threshold, we now slide into the mouth.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
8  No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
9  Your hands are slippery, and your knife is slippery, and you are toiling like mad, when somebody happens to speak to you, or you strike a bone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  There was a sensation that he and his fellows, at bay, were pushing back, always pushing fierce onslaughts of creatures who were slippery.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
11  Surely thou didst set them in slippery places, thou castedst them down to destruction.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  Through a field slippery with blood, and encumbered with broken armour and the bodies of slain and wounded horses, the marshals of the lists again conducted the victor to the foot of Prince John's throne.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  All the while he spoke he exquisitely stroked the rounded tail, till it seemed as if a slippery sort of fire came from it into his hands.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
14  "Jown the slippery glasses," said Grandfer Cantle.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
15  The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer passengers than usual.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
Example Sentence:
1  Better driv-ing equipment will improve track adhesion in slippery conditions.
2  The company started down the slippery slope of believing that they knew better than the customer.
3  Don't believe what he says-he's a slippery customer.
4  He struggled to keep his footing on the slippery floor.
5  The tiled floor was wet and slippery.
6  The road was wet and slippery.
7  We had to be mindful of every step we took on slippery sidewalk.
8  Because the sidewalks are very slippery, please be careful.
9  Brydon knew that in time the blood would seep down onto his sword hilt and make the grip slippery.