How to Use slippery in a Sentence

slippery

adjective

• The trails were muddy and slippery.
• Fish are slippery to hold.
• The steps don't have grips on them, so the ladder may become slippery when wet.
  — Samantha Jones, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Sep. 2022
• Made of soft sherpa with a non-slippery sole, these slippers will make her roommates green with loungewear envy.
  — Vanessa Powell, ELLE, 21 Nov. 2022
• Bring warm gloves, a hat and trekking poles that provide balance and stability on slippery rocks and wet leaves on the trail.
  — oregonlive, 1 Nov. 2022
• Keen designed the rubber outsole to provide extra traction over slippery surfaces like ice and packed snow.
  — Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2022
• The plastic surface can become slippery when wet too, like with excessive sweat or spilled energy drinks.
  — Melanie Gibson, Men's Health, 18 Nov. 2022
• The Rain mode mellows out power to avoid any abrupt hits during slippery conditions, while Roll is the standard setting.
  — Jeff Buchanan, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2022
• Ensure your beverage station has wheels for easy transportation, and trade your serving pieces for plastic or melamine drinkware to avoid broken glass on a slippery pool deck.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 1 Aug. 2024
• While the timeline is slippery, Gibbs’ technical abilities are sharper than ever.
  — Max Bell, SPIN, 3 Oct. 2022
• The service said to plan on slippery road conditions and the conditions could impact the Wednesday morning commute.
  — Hartford Courant, 15 Nov. 2022
• And the immediate torque of the electric motors, combined with the all-digital traction control systems, makes easy work of slippery surfaces.
  — Michael Harley, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• With patchy freezing rain, some areas of town were extremely slippery into Monday morning, particularly side streets.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2022
• As in the early days of the cloud, the definition of ambient computing is slippery, subject to revision, and more than a little aspirational.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
• Snow will fall across much of Idaho and western Montana on Wednesday, bringing slippery road conditions and low visibility.
  — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• Words are slippery—just like the Force is not the same as a force in physics.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 4 May 2024
• Be sure to wear shoes with a good grip, as the stones can be quite slippery.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2024
• The walls and floors were covered in a slippery ooze of squid ink.
  — Ian Urbina, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• The trails to both falls have steep and rocky terrain that can be loose and slippery when wet.
  — Krissy Waite, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2024
• Then, Cummins lunged over to the garage’s roof, where the slant combined with the snow proved slippery.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• Foley and Lange each added a K and Lange got the save in the game, which had a late start and a slippery mound due to rain.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 8 July 2023
• The rain didn’t stay away long, however, and the walk back in the near dark was slippery on the ancient stones.
  — Kristen De Groot, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2023
• Bear in mind that logs and rocks used for footing can be slippery.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• What did George Toma say about why the Super Bowl 57 field was so slippery?
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• Overnight, the building’s weight squished the soap until the beams became slippery.
  — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
• Signs at the trailhead warn of slippery rocks and cold water at all times of year.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
• In their favor, the slippery-road traction of the new tires is much more tenacious.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 9 Feb. 2023
• In Ed Park’s new novel, the past is slippery, elusive, and alive.
  — Krys Lee, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2023
• This slippery approach to genre is a tenet of the New Narrative.
  — Daniel Felsenthal, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2024
• Hand cream makes everything slippery and leaves greasy fingerprints all over my phone screen.
  — Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024