Lose ground in the standings

Usage examples of slip.

Rynst, and he but replies that eastern Cyador will fall, should the Accursed Forest slip its wards.

He streaked acrost that log like it was a quarter-track, with the bark and splinters flying from under his hoofs, and if one foot had slipped a inch, it would of been Sally bar the door.

Since my seafarer mask had so affrighted her, I slipped that off, too.

A small alligator had left its sunning spot on the high mud and slipped into the water.

I spotted the Lok-Teel, looked at Shropana, then slipped the ambulatory mold in my pocket.

Though gears still slipped, causing it to jerk forward momentarily with hideous grinding sounds, Jockey, Lizardo, Upquark and the Gamester managed to climb down its face, landing beside the opening to the Amphora service shaft.

A little like the one that had slipped away during the disastrous experiment with the jury-rigged amplifier helmet, able to think without contemplating itself.

Every day the outcasts were in the streets, women with junk carts, a man dragging a mattress, ordinary drunks slipping in from the dock areas, from construction craters near the Hudson, people without shoes, amputees and freaks, men splitting off from groups sleeping in fish crates under the highway and limping down past the slips and lanes, the helicopter pad, onto Broad Street, living rags.

She reddened furiously and rubbed her wound, then glared angrily at the short grinning man who slipped past her, idly flipping a rubber band.

There was a sofa in the room, but it was horsehair, with high ends both alike, not comfortable, which were covered with curious complications called antimacassars, that slipped off directly they were touched, so that anybody who leaned upon them was engaged continually in warfare with them, picking them up from the floor or spreading them out again.

At length one of them slipped out, and hastened to acquaint Roderic with the impatience of his prize, and to communicate to him the substance of those artless hints, which, in the hands of so skilful and potent an impostor, might be of the greatest service.

If he could get us to say that some unknown, undefined being had slipped the assignment into our hands without our knowledge, not a doubt remains but that be would immediately discover that we were the purest men on earth.

Our patrols slipped down darkened trails to set ambushes or to be ambushed themselves.

Magiere slipped past Leesil through the archway, and he saw the yellow glow of her topaz.

He made a bad slip when he allowed my astute friend to notice the number of the seat taken for his wife.