“He must have slipped on this waxed floor, don’t you think, Colonel?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after every outing, Dede would slip into the bedroom Minerva shared with Mate when their little sister was home from school. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they were talking, Kate unfastened her belt, slipped it through the bucket handle, and fastened the belt again so that the bucket hung at her hip. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully she slipped the feather coat around his breast and, leaving his wings free, tied the little coat on his back. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he signals to the rest of his band, and they begin to slip back into the tunnels. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I take a sip and let a small cube of ice slip into my mouth. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Christina slams her palm into an elevator button and slips inside before the doors are fully open, dragging me behind her. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias dangled on the rope’s end for a moment, then he started to slip slowly down. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then she took the biggest knife from the kitchen, slipped it into the doorjamb, and forced it until the dried-out wood splintered and came out in fragments. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was still in the library; the Invisibility Cloak had slipped offhis head as he’d slept, and the side of his face was stuck to the pages of Where There’s a Wand, There’s a Way. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He held a slip of paper covered in a precise, feminine hand. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

While the real rain lashed at her window, she slipped some inky rain in between the drawn branches and leaves. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I slipped my camera over the lip of the desk and began taking pictures. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She slipped another fabric over the green, a soft yellow stripe. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My memory of the fight with Assef is amazingly vivid in stretches: I remember Assef turning on the music before slipping on his brass knuckles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rose slipped and fell out of my hands as my body was forced to turn around. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then, holding the doorknob so that there is no telltale click, you slip out and close the door behind you. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Charles slipped his legs into his pants and hunched them up over his hips. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled and slipped it into his jacket pocket. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

We both flinched as that word slipped out. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Harry whirled around, slipping in the snow, wand held ready to defend himself: but there was nothing to fight. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as I took a step toward him to grab it, he slipped it back in his shirt pocket, shook his head, and cracked a joke. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Inside the hut was a man asleep in a chair, bottle-thick bifocals slipping down his nose. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She locks the door, and Mami and I slip out of the closet and eat breakfast, taking turns drinking out of one cup while Tía Mari and Tío Pepe share the other one. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As I took a sip he carefully slipped a brass and copper shell into the chamber of his deer rifle and pushed the bolt forward and over. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But “I promise” somehow slipped from her lips. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Left ... left ... snap it out... drive in ... mix it up . . . don't let 'im get away, Alfred . . . press Angel kept slipping Alfred's jab. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip my arm through the handrail and reach for the receiver. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The louvers, too, had been slipped off and the windows were gaping holes and the dry harmattan winds had blown in so much dust that the walls were now an even brown. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The milk bottle slipped from my hand and crashed to the floor. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner they watch television, as Moushumi writes out thank-you cards to all their parents’ friends, for the checks they had needed twenty different slips to deposit. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now slipping over a back-yard fence, now at last on the waterfront, Sea Street, Flounder Alley. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped through the British lines and found his way to Arnold’s headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end the temptation to find out overcame his fear; he slipped a hand into his pocket. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Inej nodded and slipped the massive jeweled choker from her sleeve. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Words about the night from one of her favorite books slipped into Meggie’s mind: “This is the hour of pride and power, talon and claw.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dark chords from the organ slip into the night, turning our shoes into concrete blocks and pulling down our faces until we look like trees drooping with black leaves. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The shooter was slipping shells into the twin barrels of his gun. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She must have woken and slipped back to Thethuthinnang without disturbing him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was halfway to Delaney’s, body wired, brain tripping, when I slipped my hand into the pocket and found the forgotten Gandy’s Rock flyer, tucked inside the denim folds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Blunt blades slip fierce easy. She'll be back soon, will she?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Lodged inside it—-almost certainly—is a coiled-up slip of paper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ultima slipped easily into the routine of our daily life. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad noticed, too, and his shoulders slumped, and his smile slipped away. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, I slipped out from under the blankets and found a pencil in Georgie’s and my box of useful items. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was too late, for as he rose from his crouch the silver edge of the moon slipped above the eastern horizon, and Kino sank back behind his bush. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then quietly Gollum drew back and slipped down into the hollow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

At that moment, Carrie, the mute, slipped me bread and a chunk of ham. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped a hand between her legs, eliciting a gasp. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But someone would usually slip a piece of hard bread, cheese, jerked beef, or salt fish and johnnycake in the pocket of his jacket as it hung on its hook. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A five-year-old—Rolf Hupfauer—-sits in the corner of the sofa, eyelids slipping heavily over his eyes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They barely even noticed the falls as they slipped over them. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Dora’s girls had each one slipped off a shoe and held it by the toe. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sight of the man panting and dying there, she slips down to enfold him, crying out; then feels the spears, prodding her back and shoulders, and goes bound into slavery and grief. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dude,” she says as she slips money in her pocket. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

About the only thing I could do was slip down there, kill the guard, open the gate and let the prisoners out. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a disappointment, since Virgil hoped to slip out the front door without having an actual conversation with either of his parents. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Father put Uncle’s cup of soil there and slipped a dozen incense sticks into it and lit them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her new accent, he hears the cadence of her slipping away from him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a risk that Morrison might slip away, and before releasing him, Agent Burger made sure that he’d gone through a rigorous process known as Bertillonage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He'd seen her slip the key inside the box when he was passing by on his way to the bathroom. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

When Miss Maggie turned her back, I slipped Mouse a bit of pork belly from my bowl. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He gave me the binoculars and slipped into the water. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the eyases chittering, saw Frightful sitting erect on her stub, and let his nictitating membranes slip across each eye. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

If one high-end product has slipped into the mass market, then a new one will have to take its place at the top. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Remember last year’s homecoming?” he asked, putting his hand under her arm as she slipped and almost crashed into a locker. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He slipped his hand under the pillow and drew out the automatic pistol which Ratchett had shown him the day before. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He puts an arm around my waist and slips the other one under my knees to readjust me so he’s cradling me like a baby. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I slipped along the hedgerow and when I was well past Starr’s house I came up the field and back onto the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands were folded into two little fists and when I slipped a finger into her fist, she held on. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front half of my bike slipped free of the bush. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She'd already cut some of the photos, leaving room for the digital images to slip in. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel dug once more, his forepaws throwing up the soft, wet soil and slipping against the hard sides of the peg. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to get up and slipped, and saw him pulled away from me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the commotion, it was not hard to slip off unseen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the load on memory can allow the error to slip by. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Each time, after he slipped out of her, she pressed her legs together, crossed them at her ankles, and took deep breaths, as if the movement of her lungs would urge conception on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I murmured an excuse and slipped away, leaving them to their own formidable devices. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She heard someone say, “This woman is in shock” and felt someone slip a brandy into her hand. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This way and that he flung around the cavern searching for his tormentors, but, blind as he was, they were able to slip away from him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

While carrying heavy pieces of granite up the steep sides, they could slip and plunge to their deaths. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kyro realizes he’s slipped up, but he shrugs it off with a wave of his hand. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She slipped close to Mother and whispered, “Do we have to stay and eat here?” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then he made a mistake: trying to look behind him, he slipped and put a foot into the water. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

With hardly a word between them, hardly even a glance, the boys slipped into their beds. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She released Adam Douglas’s hands, then slipped a small bracelet off her arm. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each step along the way is risky, because the enemy’s counterintelligence officers often notice some little slip that leads to capture. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with that he unwound one end of the silver chain and slipped it around the girl's slim wrist. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she slipped the cheese omelette from the pan onto the plate, flipping it as she did so, letting it fold itself into a perfect omelette shape. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Ray slips out from under the table just in time to stand next to his friend. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then the horizon seemed to slip away in front of her, and Tally crouched, ready to jump. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Lancelot will slip through our fingers. He is an oily man to hold.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy grinned as I slipped him a coin. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jones slipped into the house and, without a word, scooped from the supper table enough food for two men and carried it out of the house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fuller ordered a big cutoff and many men were given their pink slips. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

What they did not know they could not let slip. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was afraid his family would slip. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Esteban quickly put one on his bride-to-be and slipped the other on his own finger. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His cloak of charm slipped off, and he fell quiet again. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sun slipped behind a curtain of clouds, and it began to rain. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The asrai and the undines had slipped into the icy northern sea to head south for the mouth of the Kell, where they would swim upstream to their cool lakes and rocky rivers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Attackers slipped away as soon as retribution had been exacted. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to see that she had slipped into a thin ragged housecoat—even though it had holes in all the wrong places—and I could look directly at her for the first time. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Practice slipping it in and out of my belt. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She slipped out of herself with the sensation of being shed—like a bird’s molted feather, or a plum dropped from a tree. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Courtney tugs on his arm and he slips off behind her without having found me and so I turn back into a person. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

When it flares up, I slip between two huge slabs of limestone and sidle down the tight tunnel. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the man who had recognized Silvertongue when they slipped into the village the night before. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I slip out of my shoes, tiptoe quietly into the guest bathroom to strip off my wet clothes, and hang them over the shower rod. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She shut her eyes as she went over it, and as the dazzling gleam passed behind her and she bent her head towards the earth again, she felt the star slip down her horn. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But Ash slipped around him and pushed through the doorway. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only rarely did he allow an undisguised racist remark to slip through, like the time he referred to “the purely scientific statistical evidence of natural racial distinctions in group intellect.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘I was right there. Bubber had been aiming that gun at me and Ralph and everything around there. He just happened to aim it at Baby and his finger slipped. I was right there.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even if they slip on out owing you some money, you got to bite the bullet, give up some slack, and let them be on their way. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached for another, though, the rain-slicked first branch slipped right out of my grasp and I wound up on my butt, nearly falling to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was cutting canvas and my hand slipped. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, on a sudden thought, “Would you like to hear the remaining evidence? There is a seat there, just inside the door. If you slip in now nobody will notice you.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped and skidded on the wet grass and Lydia pounced. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I’d no more than slipped him the gun from my belt when a cop I’d seen about came in the other door. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip Mama Ya-Ya’s black clodhopper shoes off her tiny feet. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mom mistook my confused frown for apprehension as she slipped the book into my bag. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When a reader is forced to work through one stale idiom after another, she stops converting the language into mental images and slips back into just mouthing the words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The two con men she had been watching packed up their things and slipped into the crowd. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Memories of my dad were starting to slip away from me. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They slip phrases into their stew and wrap meaning around their pork before frying it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Lander’s talk verged on a sermon, concerning the dilemma of finding your purpose once you’ve slipped the yoke of slavery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I slipped inside my house and breathed deeply, drawing the warm, peppery aroma of Mama’s chicken casserole into my lungs. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dylan nods and slips the key into the door. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He slipped the glass into his back pocket, wiped his palm on his jeans. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He slips the hand to the doorknob, holding it tight. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Phil takes my bags and sticks out his elbow so I can slip my arm through as he escorts me to his car. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And at the last second, instead of going up, he slips into the bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I have the slip here. It’s marked nine thirty-seven.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The soldier gazed at his photo another minute before slipping it into his wallet. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I took her hand, but she let it slip out of mine. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He slips from bed, finds Mutti sitting in the dark, listening to the radio, her hand over her mouth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t given Grover the slip at the bus station, he might not have gotten in trouble. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The meal was salty and hot, and I slipped him as many bites as I could. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The two of them slip off behind a wall of people. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The cab swerved just in time and one brother was slipping on the snow and almost fell in the path of a delivery truck. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creature slipped off the bed and bowed so low that the end of its long, thin nose touched the carpet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He slip off the loading dock, fell down on the drive. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Still, he kicked off his shorts and slipped into the pants, the shirt, and the crossing-guard-orange vest. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Something slipped out of her hand and clattered to the floor, making her jump. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I watched as they slipped and skidded across the icy deck, screaming and plunging into the water like human raindrops. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The elf half stood and worked his way along the row, slipping out of the theater. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They slipped off their backpacks and began to look through the top box. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Meggie tried to catch Tinker Bell, but the fairy slipped through her fingers and whirred up to the ceiling, where she hovered like a light made of invisible glass. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The old man swung the club down on him again as he slipped away to swallow and hit only the heavy solid rubberiness. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were thin slips, like paper dolls floating down the walks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"You tell me," he says, and slips it over my head. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I have to be down the hill at CSA in an hour and now I can take the streets, for once, instead of tearing through the woods, trying to give Fry the slip. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Reaching over the table, he opened the book for Meggie at a place that he had marked with a couple of long blades of grass slipped between the yellowed pages. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

While it warmed up, I untied the lines that kept my skiff snug in its slip. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It had slipped my mind that Mom planned to attend Fall Fiesta. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Harry slowed down a little, slipped his wand back inside his robes, and looked around, listening again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The other friend then slipped out of the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I slip back out of his window without saying good night, making my way back to the room by the light of Summerland, and with a heavy heart. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

On a whim, she decided to slip off to Lambert a few weeks before the dedication. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few beans slipped out of the side of Lennie’s mouth. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then someone else slipped into the seat next to mine. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when I didn’t answer, he shut the game down and slipped the phone in his pocket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I slipped into the parlor and picked up my project, a pathetic pair of socks I’d started back in October when Charlie enlisted. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Did I fail to hear you knock?” she asked, staring so angrily that Meggie had to summon up all her courage not to turn around and slip quickly back out into the hallway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I backed the boat up into the slip, turned off the motor, wrapped lines from the dock around my cleats, and threw Ben’s coat and life jacket up on the dock. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

How easy it would be to slip on the wet deck and fall into the river below! Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I carefully slip the treasured book into my bag and, after a second thought, add the notebook filled with my lyrics too. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Roy watched in wonderment as more and more kids slipped out of the crowd and began joining hands, forming a human barricade around Beatrice’s self-buried stepbrother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snapped its case shut and slipped it into his pocket. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sierra sharpened her mind and allowed her vision to slip alongside the spirits as they, thundered through the old anthropologist’s inner workings. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Neel walked to the threshold and slipped into his sandals. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Harlem’s numbers industry hummed every morning and into the early afternoon, with the runners jotting down people’s bets on slips of paper in apartment house hallways, bars, barbershops, stores, on the sidewalks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I changed directions and slipped back into the shadow of the wings. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was the problem with shamblers: one little slip and everyone you knew was a ravenous monster. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But halfway through class, I see Anise write a note and slip it to Kalinda. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only then did we notice that the gentleman in whose house we were staying was nowhere to be found — he had slipped out and gone to work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip it on my finger and admire it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He followed me, slipping and sliding and trying over and over again. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The priest hung the lantern j from a hook, slipped a hand inside his robe, and produced an ornate key. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It reached the edge of the wood, where it paused for several minutes to lick its wounds with its red, red tongue, and then, purring like an earthquake, the lion slipped away into the forest. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a glittering turquoise slip and had long, dark hair. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He slipped the light-pen into the pocket of his shirt and removed his black-framed reading glasses, which hung in front of his chest on a thick cord. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He yelled for a switch one time when he could have slipped through a pick and I found myself alone, unchallenged for the first time in the game. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like something had slipped past the drawbridge at the castle, but then her forehead smoothed out. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My mother and sister were asleep, and I needed to slip into bed as quietly and as cool as possible. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I turn my head as he slips out of the old clothes into the new. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Maidens nodded in approval and slipped it onto my body. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Some of them slipped out as he stuffed the rolled leaf in his mouth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He tiptoed to the door, wanting to slip out without his mother hearing him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They open the back door of the ambulance and bring out the wheeled bed and slip me onto it and wrap the blanket around my legs. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I left my room, slipped into my flip-flops next to the front door, and went outside. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She put on the mask, which was tied with a silken cord so thin she could barely see it, and at last she took out her moonstone ring and slipped it on her right hand. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He continued, “White and red slip that fires to white and black in the finish. Chrysanthemums.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He straightened and lifted the brick, but just at that moment the reality of it all slipped from him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were starting to slip out of the twists, and Father Amadi ran his hand over the loosening braids, in gentle, smoothing motions. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

From under the bed I slip out a flashlight and a long, fat cylinder of paper. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Quinn slipped a photograph from its envelope, turned it like a playing card, and skidded it across the desk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ask as I slip my arms through the straps of my book bag. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Besides, in their merriment, the little gray-haired lady had slipped from their thoughts. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I try following her instructions, but my hands slip and my feet slip and I don't get very far. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I slip it into the backpack and stare at the runners' path between me and the west side of Manhattan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I use the distraction to slip quietly past. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Men take off their jackets like they’re slipping off backpacks, and women swing their purses like empty lunch boxes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Loretta slips away and I can hear her breathing like a broken bird in the cellar dark. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts her shirt and slips a gun from under the waistband of her pants, offering it to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He prodded a larger piece with a serving spoon to make sure the meat slipped easily from the bone. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She pushed him gently towards his bed, and as he got in she slipped the portrait of Mary Poppins into his hand—hurriedly, in case she should regret it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I practiced slipping the bag onto my back and running with it—I didn’t want to be left behind. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She slipped out of her work clothes and stretched languorously, and he admired the lean grace of her arched back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A sound of pleasure slips out of my mouth as the stuff eradicates my itching. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she thought it looked right she slipped out of the back and joined Tea Cake. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The name slips out of my mouth before my brain thinks about what I’m saying. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Violet sat in her slip with her coat on, while Alice mended the sleeve with the tiniest stitches. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Borrowing Jamie’s gloves, I hold the belay line—letting out slack as Jay rises, ready to snap it back if his legs slip or his grip fails. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

His shoulder strap slipped down, and I saw that mark on his neck—the purple blotch. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I nod in agreement, squeeze my lips into a forced smile, and slip past her before she can ask any other questions. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“She has to keep her feet up, otherwise the baby might slip out all of a sudden and bump his head,” Theresa says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper slipped it back into its sheath, trying to keep her hands from shaking. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Frank stared at him as though he’d slipped into another language. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as Papi came home from his shift at the hospital, he showered, singing a favorite Island song that made the girls giggle as they slipped on their party dresses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The horse slipped between the Bone Gap cemetery and the Corderos’ stone farmhouse, winding her way through the grasses at the edge of the Willises’ beeyard. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I slip into the same chair where I sat for Ace Period and produce my notebook and pen like all the other kids around me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then, as soon as the shop bell tinkled, I would slip the chocolate back into the display, the coins into the register, and this made Mrs. Diamant chuckle. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When he was finally gone, I opened the display case, slipped the watch inside, and rearranged the other watches around it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped out of their backpacks and left them on the terrace and kicked their way through the trash on the porch and pushed into the kitchen. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In their rush to slip away, they’d left with few supplies, and riding in the gaps between train cars meant it was impossible to scavenge for food. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s heading straight for me, and as I step back, trying to get out of the way, I slip off the edge of the pavement and fall. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I unpegged a fresh nightshirt and shook the stiff out of it and slipped it on. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He slipped off his shoes and padded toward the kitchen in his black socks. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He felt a flush of achievement, at how easily fiancée had slipped out of him, a sign of future uxorious bliss. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

With a smile, she cut a slice of babka from the loaf cooling on the counter, wrapped it up, and slipped it in with all the rest. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That’s perfect; they slip out of the plastic containers with ease. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I just want to see more of you,” she said, and slipped an arm around his waist. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Briony went to a bedside and plucked at the sleeve of a soldier who lay faceup, cradling his arm which had slipped its sling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The hand on the small of my back slipped under my shirt and curled against the skin there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

You don’t know that when a memo arrives to confirm the assignment, some deep and unseen fault line in your life has begun to tremble, that some hold is already starting to slip. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He yanked the sunglasses off, folded the stems across each other, and slipped them into his back pocket. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The silk rope slipped from her hands and fell to the ground. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped on a pair of glasses and inspected the key. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had never let a single word about Wash slip. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Grey had slipped, Father might have been badly hurt. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were fighting for pink slips on role playing characters. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when no one was looking I would slip into Ella’s room and steal a book and take it back of the barn and try to read it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door is heavy but between the two of us, we are able to pull it open wide enough to slip through. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind, ladies and sirs”—shut up, Nate—“giving me one more shot at side number one? Because I swear I won’t slip into a stupid southern accent on the Michael lines again.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He asked if she could slip away for a quick picnic. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She then takes the rifle and slips the strap on my shoulder. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her claws slip on the ice. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a casual way of ignoring affronts, slipping past insults to her whiteness like a seasoned boxer slips punches. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For now, the document was a permission slip to Trooper Rindlisbacher. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As soon as I think they're gone, I wave to the surprised man at the desk and slip out. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The recorder also stands, and slips his screen into his bag. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She reaches her hand between her legs and slips him inside her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But the armed riders made little difference because there were miles and miles of fence and two or three hunters could easily slip between them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Redemption sagged, and the anger he’d been clinging to slipped away, replaced by worry. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Sleep doesn’t come quick, and it takes a long time before I slip into that place of broken memories. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Andrew slips in a puddle of spilled glue and knocks himself unconscious on the floor. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He slipped from bed and was walking softly across the room when his brothers voice said, “Where are you going?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, her mind slipped sideways again, and she imagined he was her daddy coming to offer her a hand out of her stuffed-animal cave after her mother left. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When glazed and fired, the slip blurred or ran, making the edges of the design indistinct rather than crisp and clear. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A water snake slipped along on the pool, its head held up like a little periscope. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I found it hard to remember his treachery, sometimes I discovered myself thoughtlessly slipping back into affection for him again. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the timer rang, Fadi reset it for five seconds and used the tongs to pull out the paper and slip it into the indicator stop bath. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then Garrett stretches and—honest to God—slips his arm behind my shoulders. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Without a word to anyone he padded to the water and slipped into it without a ripple, and vanished. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She took a minute to slip off her shoes, then flopped over on the bed and curled up, one hand between her knees, the other slipped under the pillow. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Can she slip past him and into the street? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But, as she did every night, Blanca had locked her door and slipped out the window in the direction of the river. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped a gram of hash in my upper pocket. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He slipped his fingers into his vest pocket and felt the crisp roll of bills. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing in the world,” was the reply; and, replacing the paper, I saw him dexterously tear a narrow slip from the margin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The secretaries in the English department kept getting phone calls; there were messages left on yellow slips of paper: Where was I? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something was slipping out of me, slipping away, taking my strength and my sanity, and I could not stop it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When doctors assured us that Brother Hinton was receiving the best of care, I gave the order and the Muslims slipped away. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Putney he slipped his boat into the water, leaned deep into his oars, and over the course of three heats defeated a field of fifty- eight oarsmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pepperhorn sneered at them and grabbed Valley roughly by the arm, shaking her until her hood slipped off. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I can feel the tension creep into the room and slip down over different faces and shoulders I see in the crowd. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the moon slipped through a cloud and dived into the bloody stream, filling it with a sheet of stars. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Just as he examined the underwear she hung in the bathroom—black slips, slippery bras, white pants. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She takes it, lightly traces one loop of the embroidery, grins at me, and slips away. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, Daddy dear. The spoon slipped,” Mary Anne protested innocently. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped into the room and quietly closed the door behind me, making my way toward the lockers. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He awoke minutes later only to laugh himself to sleep again, and so he continued, laughing and sleeping and laughing again, all afternoon, until at last he slipped into a prolonged slumber. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

As he grappled and punched I somehow managed to twist and wriggle my way around him and slip out the door. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I ride the elevator downstairs, and check to make sure nobody is in the hallway or the storage closet before I slip inside. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When Mom leaves, the door slips out of her hand and slams. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I forced a smile and watched as she slipped back into her apartment. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She holds her arms out to me, and I slip through space like a feather on a current of wind, effortlessly carried by the force that is Claire. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

As I'm about to slip them on, Baba comes out of the bedroom, holding something in his hands. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Africa has slipped the floor out from under my righteous house, my Adah moral code. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped up to fourth position, just off of front-running Special Agent. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

During that last stay in San Jose, she went on a walk, stumbled across a church service, and slipped inside. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It looked like she might slip from Dad’s grasp or pull him out the window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel kept talking as they crept along—“Here, step here, be careful, don’t slip”—and under her words hummed the whisper: I'm here, I’m here. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I slip back into beauty creams, hoping they don’t see me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I slip this tape into the back pocket of my jeans. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then he puts a finger to his lips and slips me a small flip phone. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He stepped on a loose rock, slipped, then fell hard. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He nodded as he slipped off his backpack. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The checkered tile floor became slick with rain and mud, and it took all of my concentration not to slip. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She slipped a hand into her pocket and traced the circle of birds on the ring from Wash until the hour was over. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway across the alley, I see something slip out of his pocket. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My friends and I would slip out of the church between Sunday school and the 11:00 a.m. worship service to drink Cokes at Mr. Gaston’s motel restaurant. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the water finally gets hot, I slip in and I stare at the blobs of white on my feet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘I reckon you and I ought to be able to give him the slip if we have to.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip my fingers inside the envelope and pull out the letter. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had hoped to slip to the attic and fetch away his cup without being noticed, but Mrs. Lapham saw him enter and called him into the kitchen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when she left school that afternoon, Agnes slipped out from the corner of the building and fell in step with her. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Nyla sits on a stool next to the pod and slips on gloves like she’s a dental hygienist about to perform a cleaning. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ah, we’re making different measurements today. Stand on the metal plate—oh, slip your shoes off first. Hold your daemon, if you like. Look forward, that’s it, stare at the little green light Good girl...” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I see his feet first, slipping down the steps some but not hurrying, taking his time now that he knows we’re here. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nuwa slipped from his grasp and thrust herself into the hole in the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In her haste she missed her grip on the bucket and, to her horror, it slipped loose and tumbled several yards down the hill behind her. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I tried to retrieve it, the tie around my chest loosened and the notebook slipped out too. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping from your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you toward the future. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

These things were you, now there is no connection whatever; the sorrow within me is not for this body which has suffered and in suffering has let slip the spirit, but for you, my son. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

His foot slipped on a knot, and he slid sickeningly to the next. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She gets up to wash her dish, and when she’s done, she slips out the door. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I walked around him to the front seat and slipped behind the wheel. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He slipped into the living room early in the morning to get what he needed from the tin of Booker money. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena stumbled, her calloused feet slipping on the smooth floor as she straightened herself. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They slipped a few more drops from the bottle between her lips. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped her hand into her pocket and wrapped her fingers tightly around Wash’s ring. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Misjudging how far back he was sitting in the chair, his first attempt to rise failed and he slipped back, resting on his side. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

If her birthday fell on a school day, Mom arranged for whatever teacher Ivy was with at that time to slip her a note and a little piece of chocolate at exactly 10:33. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Various teams of Indians who had slipped across the twisted passes of the border undetected were working for Jean de Satigny. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just as she was turning to leave, Jinny happened to notice a slip of white paper sticking up from the side of the couch frame, pale in the dim room. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A soft curl slipped from beneath her ear onto her cheek. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you mind if I slip off my shoes?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I dropped into a crouch and slipped from tree to tree. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I imagined figures slipping into the shadows when I passed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The truth slips out before I can stop it. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I start slipping the tails of my white shirt back under my skirt. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Keep talking, Wraith. Don’t slip away from me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Suffering from a miserable mix of dysentery, headaches, and dizziness, Alvarez quickly slipped from 165 pounds to 135. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It became his habit to creep out of bed even before his mother was awake, to slip into his clothes and to go quietly down to the barn to see Gabilan. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold her hand until her hand slips out of mine. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Both had a slightly mildewy odor, and I sighed as I slipped them on. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She hesitated on the street in front of Lady Isobel’s sister’s house, and decided to slip around the rear to the servants’ entrance. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt, looking at her, that I was helplessly watching precious flaxen sand slip away between my fingers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they watched television and ate ramen or canned soup as the hours and days slipped away like water. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The bracelet slipped down to her elbow, silver against olive. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped it over her shoulders, Captain America style. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Wished there was a crack to slip through and leave all this stuff behind. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, like my armlessness is something that could slip by someone. I mean, how unobservant do you have to be to not notice that someone doesn’t have arms?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Some of the drugs probably slipped in through the Visit Room, but most, it seemed, were helped into prison by officers who were paid off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she slipped into the room with the bowl and shut the door in his puzzled face. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I can’t go in until the halls are empty and the teachers have numbed them with boredom so they won’t notice when I slip down the halls. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I slip my arm through the other strap and adjust the backpack. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I needed something to hold on to that was a part of you, because with every word Mom said, you slipped further away. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I slip on my shoes, grab my backpack. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Five or ten Ebola-virus particles suspended in a droplet of blood could easily slip through a pinhole in a surgical glove, and that might be enough to start an explosive infection. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With expert motions the women slipped tortillas—thin discs of cream-colored flour perhaps nine inches in diameter—onto the hot burners. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She tried to think of some hero out of one of her books, someone whose skin she could slip into, to make her feel stronger, bigger, braver. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Learning for him had always been hard, like catching water in his bare hands, it would all slip through, all be so near and yet somehow not useful to him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instinctively she reached for the splendor, but it seemed to slip from her, like trying to grasp at water. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He might show up at midday, but if he did not, the noon hour would be a perfect chance to slip away home and take the goblet. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The caduceus changed into a cell phone and Hermes slipped it into his pocket. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But after one glance at the Lion's face he slipped out of the saddle and fell at its feet. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

These days Molly slips into Vivian’s house, ducks her head with a quick hello to Terry, sidles up the stairs. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Taran tried to turn his mount’s head but Melynlas, in a shower of pebbles, slipped from the trail to the steep slope. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to ask, but the question slipped out anyway. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But he didn't slip into my room and under my sheets and hold me tight against the empty, endless night. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

To slip out from under my body without my feeling it? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could even slip in over the line and see her friends if she wanted to. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I listen and the spoon slips down into the pot of beans. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a Hon merely turning its head. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mami ran from the window, her face glowing, to the basket of house clothes and slipped out of her flowered dress into a faded shift. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Did I get a chance to slip the papers to a member of the committee? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It slipped. It was a mistake,” Valley said quickly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t know any more about Father than the small things Mother lets slip. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If he is near a river or stream, he strips and slips into the water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Thandiwe nodded, and without another word, hopped off the roof while slipping the forebear beneath her feet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I go back inside for my gun, slip the leftover food from the saucer into a little plastic sack, and set off up the hill, the sounds of my sisters’ shouts and giggles behind me. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been many slips, on many staircases. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I reached the top, my feet slipped. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if we get to a new home, I could slip quietly out the door one morning. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His fingers curled around one of the cakes and slipped it off the pile. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She was staring blankly at a little TV suspended from the ceiling, but she looked up when I slipped into the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I slip the necklace back down the front of my dress. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Even Sister Redempta slipped in the back door and stood to the left side of the courtroom while the Hungarian woman stood to the right. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A current of air slipped through the gym, fluttering the sleeve of her shirt and carrying her sweet peppermint scent my way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The excuse slips off my tongue almost before I’m aware of it. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I turn away in despair, and Bando slips his arm around my shoulder. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I expect Mrs. Winstead to hand me a detention slip or send me straight to the principal. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Our backs are wetter and we keep slipping while trying to get up. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Instead of the slip, she was wearing a robe of cherry silk embroidered with blossoms of white and saffron. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Here. Put this on and you can wear the dress on top of that. Okay? Can I see you in a slip or does that go against your virgin sensibilities too?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Right, okay. You two have classes together; we don’t. It makes sense. Things slipped through the cracks.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

We were out by old Highway 11, having slipped the noose of the last suburb of East City. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to be walking the paddle mile or bringing home a third detention slip from the office. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just weeks later, she was slipping away, falling apart in my memory and everyone else’s, dying again. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I got back to Miss Watson’s classroom, I found that the slip Miss Corrie had signed said I should be allowed to go home early. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I lifted it with my toes and slipped it into my bag. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His heel slipped, the edge of the cliff crumbled, and the- great Polyphemus made chicken wing motions that did nothing to help him fly as he tumbled into the chasm. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Luke slipped out of his shirt, grabbed hold of the sleeves and tore them, leaving huge gashes a breeze could pass through. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was as if she’d slipped over the edge of the world and fallen, to borrow Willa Cather’s phrase, “outside man’s jurisdiction.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My foot must have slipped or something, and in I went. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Great jagged boulders screened the view, and I slipped and stumbled on the wet rocks, making my way as best I could in Jasper’s direction. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Is it what you carried onto the train the last time you saw your mother and father, as your first life was slipping away? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We walked together back towards the car, trying not to slip. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had taken Howard’s ill-bred yearlings, worked with them in solitude for a year, then slipped them into Barn 38 at Santa Anita and hung out his shingle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds farfetched, but like a roast forsaken in the oven or a rescheduled dental appointment, childbirth is one of those minor details that tends to slip the minds of most soap opera characters. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I feel everything inside of me slipping down into the floor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I fold the napkin and go back to my seat, where I slip the cookies into my backpack. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

BigYou slipped under the police tape and licked one of the yolks sliding down my trunk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She slipped into the back of these gatherings—just a tired, heavy, middle-aged black woman searching for a place to rest her feet as she dealt with some bureaucratic runaround. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see anything to be careful of, like a dog that wanted to bite me or a mud puddle to slip in or anything. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I slip into the seat in front of Monica and Violet, then get up on my knees and pivot around to film my establishing shots. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Our voices were too soft or nonexistent, and our parents never signed the permission slips anyway. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My job now was to ride a bus across the George Washington Bridge where a fellow was waiting for me to hand him a bag of numbers betting slips. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See how this peg fits into the shoulder then slips into the top of the arms, and it swings. See!” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I slipped it out of my pocket and peeked at the screen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I quietly slipped out of the small door with my pack, keeping my head down. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

You think about curling up next to her and letting the day slip away on fast-forward. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Someone left an alien mask on my chair in Ms. Faraci’s class that I discovered when I slipped in right before the final bell. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He shut his eyes and slipped back into evil dreams. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My fall made the ladder slip even farther off the windowsill. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not even the ones holding betting slips, the ones who are usually beyond caring. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My hair has slipped free of its braid and lays in hopeless tangles. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I hurry to slip the tank over my head before my mom can barge in to help me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Coraline was almost asleep, but she slipped out of her bed and pulled open the curtains. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Before long they lost the course of the brook, slipping across the moonlit patches as fugitives and halting in the bushes with raised ears and staring eyes. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tries to wave again, slips slightly, then quickly regains his balance. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The journey had begun on August 7, when the Zeppelin had slipped its tethers in Lakehurst, New Jersey, lifted up with a long, slow sigh, and headed for Manhattan. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s a little over two miles to our house, and I arrive just as the last sliver of sun slips beneath the horizon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

They had slipped into a steady routine during the day; the two dogs trotting along side by side, unconcerned and purposeful, might have seemed two family pets out for a neighborhood ramble. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess stretched his legs, then he slipped out of bed. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I ran the last of the way and slipped quietly into the house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie slipped his shirt back on, then took her hand again and placed his other hand on her hip. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“My little sartorially challenged slip of a girl, we are ateliers. We dress the world itself. I embroider the earth with ice and frost, the most delicate silk in the world.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes before they were due to leave, Aurelia slipped away to her courtyard to feed her fish, and while she was there, Julius arrived with Boots. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He smiles at me, but then his smile slips. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I picked him up, but his no-longer-so-heavy frame practically slipped from my grasp. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The animals slipped through the grassland like the vervet monkeys near the leopard cave. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leafie had slipped her shoes and stockings off; I did the same. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I'm not hungry," I tell her as I slip out the door. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He slipped a few drops between her lips and thought she swallowed it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kicked my legs, tried to get up, but my feet kept slipping in the mud and I couldn’t get enough of a grip or a foothold to move away. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ray starts to bounce, too, the moment Dr. Martin slips from the driver’s side door. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Auntie Yeabu slipped away from the other wives and came to me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They skirted the side of the wood that lay along the southern edge of the combe and then, in ones and twos, slipped across the empty road beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rise to my feet and slip a bottle in each pocket of my jacket. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But all the time, he pushed me around on his lap, then suddenly he stood up and I slipped down to the floor. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to slip past him, but he slams his hand against Christina’s bed frame, blocking my path. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I turn and slip into the pocket of the dark. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I slip onto one of the chairs and examine the stamps. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean to say that Lancelot will be allowed to slip off with the Queen, under our noses?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped off the dragonfly’s back and tethered it safely, and then took out the lodestone resonator. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So when he came flying into the living room on skates, I laughed it up so he’d feel a little better about my slipping him the insects. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He instructed me to put another slip of glass on top. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He spins around, and before he’s even able to grasp the situation, the container of powdered bleach has already slipped down the side of the tub and splashed into the water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Whether shrouded in fabric or slipping on gold, it wouldn’t matter to me. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Past the slips to the terrible gowns, the headdresses and fans and pots of her mother’s face paint and all the macabre accoutrements of the goddess of despair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Quietly, I slip to the back of the kitchen worktable to press the seemingly endless stack of the Commandant’s uniforms. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His hands felt like leathery claws as they slipped around my wrist like handcuffs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Pan slipped down to the bench and curled up on her lap. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Southwest kept a grasp but a slipping grasp on localness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several arms slipped through the gap, blocking the door from closing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How would I let him see that I understood and that I still respected him, and that I formed no judgment against him for this momentary slip? Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven tied her combat boots and slipped on her oversized purple hoodie before securing her pointy hat on her curly hair with some pins. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Never once did we set foot on the main street But once, when we heard the watch approaching, he slipped into an alcove. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” Ana said as she slipped into the booth across from him the Friday after he first met Maya and Grace. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Percy felt like an arrow had slipped through a chink in his armor—as if he still had the blessing of Achilles, and someone had found his weak spot. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Jorgenson’s tongue flicked out, moving along the edge of his mustache, then slipped away. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In seconds, the shadows unraveled, and like black ink slipped off the man, who was sound asleep. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I would save my rejection slips, and every six months or so I would put them into a neat pile to check my progress. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Each bead slipping through her fingers was another resentment recorded and released. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I get up and slip my hand under the mattress for my journal. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Finally she slipped on her father’s jacket and snuck outside. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He did not want to see trees that he had passed, or houses and children slipping into the space the automobile had left behind. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped back on campus only when I knew school was officially out. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Presently,” Belknap said, “I heard my door tried and then a key was slipped into the lock.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They would always find excuses to slip away, afraid to reveal the narrowness of their knowledge. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Minli quietly got up and slipped out of the cave to see. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

And there I was about to slip away when an older man approached me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After hammering out a pile of jagged iron fragments, I slipped while crawling out and threw back my left hand to catch myself. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I slip my hands under his shirt, let them wander, feel him tremble. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He had no idea how she had slipped out of the house unnoticed, but he was glad she’d made it. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jody slipped into the living-room, and his father turned to him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a little early for Thursday’s rehearsal, so I slip out the side door of the auditorium and walk around to the back of the school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Mamou slipped into my room and maneuvered around the Dancing Fan. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trepid slipped the cloth off her head and sat up. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah. Well, it’s just a bad habit we’ve slipped into,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But I seemed to slip into a time warp when I visited Morrie, and I liked myself better when I was there. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she’d slip below the surface, swim nearer, and attack them from beneath. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt and the others below, who were up to their armpits in water and slipping on the mossy rocks, tied the rope to the outermost canoe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

But Master had already slipped on his shoes, without socks, and hurried out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He slipped off his backpack and pulled out one of his two canteens. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He slipped it into his pocket, where he continued to rub it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Apparently you got soppy drunk and let something slip to a wagoneer,” Chronicler said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then it slipped through, free for a second before it thrust, spitting and screeching, into the dirt below. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He slips back into the seat beside me like he's only been gone for a few seconds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I don't let it go even as I get out of my dress and under the covers in my slip. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was hard and cool as one would expect of metal in the shade, and his skin slipped right over it without any kind of friction. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mark takes off his ski cap and slips it on my head. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I was afraid it would slip and fall onto the tile and shatter into a million pieces. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma nodded as Dr. Maris slipped her hands in plastic gloves. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Nico studied it in his palm for a few seconds, then slipped it into his pocket. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She wants a Birth Day, here, with guests and food and presents, she wants a little child to spoil in the kitchen, to iron clothes for, to slip cookies into when no one’s watching. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scramble to my feet, shift the clothes so they hide the posters, and slip on the orange bra and undies set I got for tonight. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The nightmare was slipping from him, but there was something he couldn’t put his finger on, something different, something— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I went downstairs and slipped out the backdoor, pretending I was going to the outhouse, in case she woke up. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped back into her place without a word, and sat there sullen and scowling, neither smiling nor speaking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“They just slip out,” she says, as if she has absolutely no control of the things coming out of her mouth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

His childhood, his friendships, his carefree sense of security—all of these things seemed to be slipping away. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But those goals seemed to have slipped a bit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever let it slip that you’d like to go out in public with the words ‘My Sweetheart’ round your neck?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The guard slipped a notepad on the table without my saying anything to him. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lauren threw her a mock salute, then climbed the stairs as Maya slipped out the front door. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"Your brothers will be home soon. Oma will come over to tuck you in," she says as she slips into her old, brown woolen coat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

When he paused to look down, his head swam dizzily and he felt his fingers slipping. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He opened the flap on my book bag and slipped the envelope inside. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The secret stairs to his dusty sublevel were too narrow to accommodate great beasts like these, but they slipped down them easily. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I’m waiting for her to kiss me, show me her tongue, slip her tiny hand between my legs. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie demonstrated—her powdered fingers pinching, looping, slipping, pulling—all in one fluid motion that magically produced a healed warp thread with no hint of a lump to betray the break. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine when I will be able to slip away. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She slipped half a pill between my lips. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women were harder to figure out, but I could have opened a black market corner shop with the chocolate and cigarettes they slipped me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The moment the sound of raucous singing had hided around the corner, he slipped out of the gate and ran in the opposite direction. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He stood and turned to see Frankie slipping the key into a cabinet in the desk. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Grinning, he reached out and slipped me some skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Devi etched a number on the side of the bottle with a diamond stylus, then brought out a slip of paper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had good reason: The least slip would send her plummeting to rocky ground. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I was a little nervous the next morning as I slipped them on. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Enrique knows he could slip, fall between them, and be sucked under. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

One of them gave the coroner a slip of paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She backed to the door, slipped out while Mama cried, and let her feet take her up the road, away from her house, toward the ravine where Håkon lived. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The pantry door stood invitingly open, so he slipped inside. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be upset. It just slipped out. She has that effect on people.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

"When that plaguy Cutwater comes to tie us up, tell him I slipped out the door. Soon as he bounces off after me, I'll make a break for it." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even if she could miraculously slip past the German, there is no promise that the streets will be safer than the house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I got ready for bed and slipped under the covers. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

As soon as Eleanor slipped in the house, she could hear them fighting. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And this time, instead of slamming the gate and stumping noisily across the courtyard as usual, he had slipped as silently as his hulk would allow up the stairs and into his room. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The basilisk’s blade had scarce slipped from its leather sheath when the hammer’s spike slammed into his temple, crunching through the thin brass of his mask and the flesh and bone beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was so stunned that I almost missed what he’d let slip. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When I had slipped into other minds, there had always been a queasy feeling of sinking involved in it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They even have really nice inlay steps for your feet, so you don’t slip. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As he came to the opening he brought her downwind a bit, let the sails out a hair, and the Frog slipped cleanly beyond the harbor and into the open sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped in behind her to get carried along by her wave, but the crush was dense and I was given a warning too. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip out of my bed and tiptoe barefoot to the front door. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had almost let that day slip by without making my wish, and now here came an acorn like it was dropped right down from heaven. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I slip in and out of sleep the way you do when you’re sleeping in a house that isn’t your own. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I slipped off the backpack and held it in my right hand. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I vowed to do that one day, slip free of the ropes that held me. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grit my teeth and run, leaping over the bodies, feet slipping in the gore. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He noticed if they had slipped on some gang colors or had their caps pushed to the left or the right as gang members did. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Holly pulled a rubber cylinder from the dash and slipped it between her teeth. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She’d even forged his mom’s signature on permission slips—not to be sneaky but because their mother was busy doing the work of two parents. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But now, with the biting wind and the endless landscape of white, the walkway’s bends and length were more of an annoyance, and the fleeing group kept slipping on its curves. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I got my coat out of the knapsack and put it on over my slip. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Frank slipped his hand into his coat pocket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I toss them each a pair of gloves and we slip them on. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He was feeling hungry, and when Mrs. Little opened the door of the electric refrigerator to get something, Stuart slipped inside to see if he could find a piece of cheese. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Tucker slipped away with the rest of the scenery. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

They parked down the street and wished me luck, and I quietly slipped out of the car. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She slips a piece of paper into my cage. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

And so, the small mouse who had been dipped m oil, covered in flour, and relieved of his tail slipped out of the pantry and past the weeping ladies. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed back through the house and slipped outside, quiet as a ghost. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose,” he says as shadows slip into his eye sockets like dark water, “that is something you must decide for yourself.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She slips the sandal on to her right foot and stands on one foot. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her hand started to slip until I was holding her only by her fingers. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Other times, I would kind of catch it, but my grip wasn’t sure and I’d slip off. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I feel as if Tariq himself is folded between her palms, unable to slip away. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He slips down down, to be eaten alive by The Beast. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Children shot by us, darted around us, little ones shrieking with excitement, adolescents slipping like shadows from door to door, hands over their mouths to keep laughter still. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the band took a break, Bull slipped the opened can of mushroom soup into his uniform shirt pocket. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt followed carefully so he wouldn’t slip on the cement. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byrd slips out of the shirt, lays the collar over the hook on the back of the door, and runs a hand down it. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Jonathan gave no reply, she pushed a slip of hair beneath her cap and slapped away a tugging child’s hand. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

They stood, alarmed that something had slipped past their guard, and saw a gleam of light from the camping place; not firelight, though, nothing remotely like firelight. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom got mad after I let it slip out that I went to the land again. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

All the cages were open and the snakes were out—some curled lazily into great scaly knots, others slipping gently about the floor. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Jake slipped off his tie as he walked across the grass and stuffed it into his pocket. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Several times he slipped on icy rocks and sprawled flat in the shallow water. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“There’s so little of her, I’m afraid to say much, for fear she will slip away altogether, though she is not so shy as she used to be,” began their father cheerfully. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could lean back against the mast, or slip down to the deck and lean against the cabin wall. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rabbit slipped under a pile of brush and was gone. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I remembered what Nico had said about shadow travel draining her, so I slipped off her back. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ma slipped piping hot baked potatoes into their pockets to keep their fingers warm, and Aunt Eliza’s flatirons were hot on the stove, ready to put at their feet in the sled. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The path is still wild, and it’d be easy—too easy—for someone to slip, spin, fall down the hillside. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

You aren’t looking at the road and slip across the yellow divider. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Except it slipped out of Brit's hand before it had Krystal's fingers around it. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I slipped my phone in my pants pocket. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, watching John slip a lit cigarette into the hand of the dummy with the girdle and the brassiere. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” said the man as the dæmon slipped slowly off his arm and let her weight into the golden monkey’s hands. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty-five minutes later, freshly showered and changed into Violet-approved denim and silk, I slip into my black satin shoes. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His wife and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and inviolate, were slipping precipitately from his control. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Annabeth picked up the metal spider and slipped it into her pocket. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

So, Minerva and Sina have written up a statement I must somehow slip to the committee, signed by the Fourteenth of June Movement. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nana said that one of these days he would miss, that she, Mariam, would slip through his fingers, hit the ground, and break a bone. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

We ducked around the news van and slipped into an alley. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the cash register I found twenty dollars, a few golden drachmas, and some packing slips for Hermes Overnight Express, each with a little leather bag attached for coins. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She releases her hold on the eaglet, slips her hands from the bag, and zips the last three inches. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He discovers that the trunk is loose—the rope has slipped and it is leaning. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, and once only, the master hand that carved her face had let the chisel slip. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slowly slipped the pages into his science notebook and waited for the rest of the kids to rush out to lunch. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It was a relief when six o’clock arrived and they could slip out of their sleeping bags, dress in the semidarkness, then creep out into the garden, where they were to meet Hermione and Griphook. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"I might be able to slip the child into your bedcham-ber unseen. Chataya's is not the only house to boast a hidden door." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I was ready, we slipped out the door and down the stairs. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped, dropped to the ground, and skidded on her wings and undercoverts to a low spot where she finally stopped. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurried upstairs and hid in the attic until the crowds left and he could slip home safely. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then, climbing over a wall I looked back, seeing a man hurrying after me, slipping, sliding, going over the low dividing walls of the roofs with puffing, bustling effort. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, the carpet of leaves on the forest floor has grown thicker and brighter, and today I actually slip on them and go sliding down the slope. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Half the time we were slipping and sliding rather than walking. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I dug into a pocket for my admission slip. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They’re the ones who survived the arena and slipped the noose of poverty that strangles the rest of us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He front-palmed it, holding it between his first and his little finger, so it was invisible from behind, then slipped his two middle fingers under it, pivoting it smoothly into a back-palm. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Izzi slips behind one of the pillars and raises her hand to a brick that, at first glance, looks like all the others. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I slip into bed, my back to the fire. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled Tarp's leg chain from my pocket and slipped it over my knuckles. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teenagers stood on the steps and watched, some lighting cigarettes, others slipping fingers behind their sunglasses to wipe hidden tears. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She turns to wrap her arms around his torso, and when she buries her face in his neck, his other arm slips around her waist. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Jeremiah took off his flip-flops and slipped the shoe on his right foot, leaving his left foot bare, and took the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The orange slipped from her hand, or perhaps she dropped it, because she left it there on the terrazzo floor of the veranda. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girls and I danced with our escorts until the balls of our feet hurt, and we were forced to slip off our heels and dance in our bare feet. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Well, anyway, she could at least slip out, right now, she decided, and go into the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one thing he could do: trembling he pulled out the Ring upon its chain and quickly slipped it on his finger, even as Boromir sprang at him again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But she slipped through the silken tunnel without touching the sides. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This, I reasoned, surely, was why he had slipped away so quickly. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He slipped off his horse and tethered him to the well bracing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t even say hello when he saw me because he was too busy slipping his tongue into my mouth and putting his hands down my pants. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I slipped into the first row of trees, in the same spot we had entered from, then I walked left, keeping an eye on the clearing. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Others he collected for museums hut slipped into his own pocket or knapsack instead. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Given her the slip by the looks of it,” said Ron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I opened the door just wide enough to slip outside, and shut it silently. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sat down at the kitchen table, and wrote two names on a slip of paper, and handed the paper to Harriet. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slips the book under my shirt and lifts me from the bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maya slips out of her blanket, falling, like Pop, onto the floor. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In every way I could, I would try to slip away from my dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My name day will be here soon," Joffrey said as they slipped out the rear of the throne room. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My hand slipped around her arm, but she pulled away, her jaw clenched in a way that made her look almost ferocious. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He slipped his glasses back on and bounced his fists on his knees while tapping his feet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes dart away and back again because his words have slipped through by mistake. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I pound at the bracket with the heel of my hand, throwing the full force of my weight behind it, but my hand slips and slices into the sharp edge. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I sighed, slipped an old hair ribbon into the book to mark my place, and trudged downstairs. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“We want you,” he said, his hand slipping through my hair to cup the back of my neck. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Where you hiding. You slipping off. I knows it.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those in the gallery had begun to slip quietly away, but the notables on the floor were trapped, unable to depart without the king's leave. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I clenched my teeth resolutely, determined not to be caught up in the play again, and set to work transcribing all that had slipped by me before. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tucked the paper in my pocket, tied it tight, and slipped it under the waistband of my skirt where it could not be seen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after they were gone, he slipped inside Hodor’s skin and followed them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He ran because he was scared. And he slipped or he tripped on the stairs and he fell off.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They stripped me down to my slip and brassiere and made me lie down on this long metal table, but they didn’t buckle the belts I saw dangling down the sides. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just looking at it made her feel dizzy, like the canvas was the only steady point in the world and everything else was slipping. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If only words could be swallowed—caught and slipped quickly back between your lips. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The door to the bedroom beside it was open and the room unoccupied, so Kaz slipped in, moved aside a still life, and pressed his face to the wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Trista joined the fold, slipping her phone from her back pocket to check the time. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He hit the first step, feeling it sag under him, but he kept going, up wooden steps worn so smooth his loafers slipped backwards, but the chilly legs were getting warmer now. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tear slipped out of her eye and she brushed at it with her knuckles. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sonny glances at his phone and slips it back in his jacket pocket. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“No indeed, for you are the proverbial eel, always slipping away from me,” he called. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t permit this opportunity to slip through his swollen fingers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip off the rucksack and take out the book. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Albert stretched out his arms to strangle the dripping animal, slipped on the water, and fell backwards. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

El Patron slipped into it effortlessly, like a donkey walking along a well-worn trail. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the heft of a gun in my hand and curl my fingers around it, slipping my index finger over the trigger. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Even if the girl in front of you slips and falls on her bon-hooney and then catches on fire, too, you just keep smiling like nothing happened.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He slipped the metal sticks in his pockets. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She slipped the card into the math book that lay in the middle of Miss Harris’s otherwise absolutely neat desk. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He slipped a finger between her hand and his arm and tried to pry her off. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Prim was one slip of paper in thousands! The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When he was away from her, he tortured himself with the thought of other men slipping into her house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I reached in and pulled out a slip of metal. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept hunching her shoulders to keep the dress from slipping. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

That kind of slip up bothered him a lot, and for maybe five minutes he could not concentrate as he should have on the ground below. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hizdahr’s wine cup slipped through his fingers, bounced off the carpet, rolled. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

No cops had been shot, but the guy who had slipped in the dog doo was having his elbow looked at. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An entire life can slip away downstream in hiding.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

His slick hands touched the wall, slipped off. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Masked head against the plexiglass window, I slip my hands inside the gloves and remove the lids from the toxin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He felt a dawn emotion, with a lovely day to slip golden and quiet over him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

From below the scanty curtain that was stretched across the doorway that led directly onto the street came the relentless slip- slap of disembodied feet in slippers. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sleeves of the jacket slipped over his hands. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t had such a difficult question in as long as I can remember. Would you mind repeating it? It’s slipped my mind.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, he loses his balance on the edge of the bed and slips, knocking a plate of heart-shaped Linzer cookies off the table with a crash. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I slipped back out of the bed and walked out of the room, tripping over the dresser as I made my way through the darkness. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He squeezed her shoulder once and withdrew, slipping out the door into the cool night air. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I go to him and slip my hand into his. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I nudge my foot against Willem's, and he easily slips the chain back into place, sighing like he's sorry his broken bicycle held us up for so long. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The knots refused to yield, slipped from their numb fingers, and only bit more deeply into their flesh. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Something had changed with her; she had allowed her faith to slip from her fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Good,” I said and slipped the phone into my back pocket. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We’d gone down to the pantry so I could watch him slip into Lizzie’s mind and, for no other purpose than to make me laugh, ask her to cluck like a chicken. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Branches snap and puddles splash and feet slip and he pounds along the road matching our every step. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down on the steps and slipped his shoes on. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In such a mood, a person might even let a sworn secret slip. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A kind of fever seized him at the thought that he might lose her, the white youthful body might slip away from him! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I slip out of the house around eight o’clock and head toward the town square. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But through her lips a question slipped out: “Somebody blew up the earth? Who?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are smiling, but still, I close it quickly and slip it back into my jacket. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Luma was driving Jeremiah home when he let slip that he was hungry. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The girl ran into a corner, half-stooped and gathered the hem of her slip into both of her hands and held it tightly over her knees. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I counted my stack of hard-saved money one more time, then slipped it back into my pocket. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As the line devolves into a great milling mob, I slip away. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Finally she slipped from under the blanket, wriggled into a tunic, and padded barefoot down the stairs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He slipped between the police officers and ran back into the station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

As the prosecutors slipped out, a reporter shouted: “What’s your reaction?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He jumped up and ran to the spot before the radiance slipped behind the mountains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five hundred dollars, his driver’s license, phone numbers on slips of paper, social security card, airline ticket stub, cleaners receipts. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All you did was paste them little slips in the books.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nok slipped off her shoes and joined the villagers standing in line. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Mom slipped them on and, blinking, looked around the room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He removed his wristwatch, slipped it into his pocket, and stepped up to the foul line. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I finished setting up, then tiptoed up the steps and slipped in to where the service was going on. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Barack managed to slip into a back row and watch the dress rehearsal before leaving for Connecticut. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She went around the car, and as she slipped under the steering wheel, this time she was careful not to bump her head. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The smile is slipping from his face and I’m getting a bad feeling about this, a very bad feeling. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip the chained mirror from around my neck, then take a pin from my Belle-bun and stick my finger. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I slip a piece of apple into my mouth, savoring its juices. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Jinx gathered up his money and inched his way toward the door, mistakenly thinking he could slip out while the two women argued it out. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Celia walked in and opened her closet door, then let her robe slip off. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He pulled his cap visor lower and slipped into a doorway to wait for a car. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Still playing with baby toys?” he asked, as if to make up for slipping and being nice. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai floated it softly into the dark valley of his shoulder blades and as soon as it touched skin, she slipped into his dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

To stay she would have to explain herself, so she slipped away into the darkness, tiptoeing quickly over the slabs of stone and the scented herbs that grew between them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I lost my grip on the bag and felt myself slip on the wet earth. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Lupita slipped out into the other room and went over to where her brother slept on the floor. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Please, I just need to go,” he slurred out, and then he was lost, the panic slipping over his whole body. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The gap at the foot of the door was wide enough for him to slip through. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He grabs for my arm, but I slip out of reach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When Toby mentioned it before, it had kind of slipped out. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Gabe felt it all slipping away: his dream of returning, of finding his mother, of becoming part of something he had yearned for all his life. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as she got to the classroom, Petra told Ms. Hussey that Calder had a morning dentist appointment, and slipped into her seat. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped the record out of its cardboard sleeve and placed it on the record player, then carefully lowered the needle onto the vinyl. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The curved blade slipped past the straight one and bit deep into the knight's hip where the mail gaped open. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As the moon rose above the grasslands, Dany slipped at last into a restless sleep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You work real hard, and what do you have to show for it? It just slips down the bark. You understand what I’m saying?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth fiddles with a clump of hair that’s slipped out of her roller, grimaces at its obstinacy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There’s no time to lose I heard her say Cash your dreams before They slip aviay Dying all the time Lose your dreams and you Will lose your mind. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He strategically slips in a passive sentence: One hungry heron was seen, as opposed to Birdwatchers saw one hungry heron. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Downstairs I slipped on my slacks, then wiggled my foot into the stiff black dress shoes. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I managed to unbuckle my seatbelt and slip out of the cab. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then I slipped down out of the couch and into Columbia’s tunnel, removing the docking probe as I went. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is a more serious weaving,” said Gwydion, slipping the net into his own jacket. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I slip and I slide off the pole. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I slipped my bare feet into a new pair of tennis shoes Dad had given me the week before, and I followed Cade Hernandez out of my room to face my audience. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Absolutely silently, she begins to slip out of the closet. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Fezzik reached the door at the bottom and threw it open and slammed it, with Inigo just managing to slip inside before the door crashed shut. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I began to slip down the steep hillside from stump to boulder. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy slipped a piece of the fat rind into a biscuit and took it out to Sounder. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The punt slipped downstream smoothly, without any alteration of the speed which it had gained within a few yards of leaving the bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each word seemed clear enough, but the meaning of the whole slipped away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this reason, Egyptian religious holidays had a tendency to slip backward relative to the seasons. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He looked me in the eyes and slipped his arm around the back of my neck, pulling me closer. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I slipped my hand inside my vest and put Seanie’s note in my front pocket. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I slipped off my Magic hat and sat on her bed. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She ran past her grandmother, slipping around her outreached arms, and made her way to Parker. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I cross, feet noiseless on the grass, and open it quickly, slip inside. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked a burning cigarette—the girl’s—out of the ashtray and started to bring it to his mouth, but it slipped out of his fingers. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He picked up my trash and slipped it into his hand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The gates popped open with a metallic screech and we slipped through the small gap rust and atrophy would allow. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Gruver writes something on a slip of paper, folds the note, and creases it with the back of her painted thumbnail, which creeps me out. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And while my mother used the restroom, I slipped the waiter a five-dollar bill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a willful action. To slip into passivity and allow a poison to do all the work is an embarrassment to who and what we are.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Once it’s sanded, stained, and coated, I’ll slip off my socks to feel the soft texture under my feet. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He slipped his keys back into his tool belt and headed for the mess hall. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The Salamander boomed to a halt, throwing men off in slips and clumsy hops. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t recall having it when he was riding in Officer Delinko’s patrol car, so it must have slipped from his belt while he was scuffling with the kid outside the trailer. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two children sleeping peacefully in the bed above her gave no particular cause for alarm, and yet, as Jinny piled her cushions and slipped into her clothes every day, she couldn’t shake her worry. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I leave a note on the kitchen table, grab my keys, and slip out of the apartment before Mom and Richard wake up. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She pulled her foot away and slipped it back inside her shoe. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Unless I’m wrong, it’s only a matter of slipping up the bank there and down the other side. Shall I go?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rowboat slipped from the bank then, silently, and glided out, tall water grasses whispering away from its sides, releasing it. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ampai would ask, not waiting for his answer before she slipped out into the alley. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Elements are already slipping away, dripping like the flowers around them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I pull out the glasses and slip them on. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We walked arm in arm to the dining hall, entered late, and might have slipped into the ball unnoticed, except for Aileen. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mark felt the jolt through his entire body but held on, slipping his forearm into the gap between the handle and the ship so that his elbow took the weight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her own slip was wet-dark and clinging to her body, and she was now thoroughly awake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The horse, up to his haunches in it, slipped sidewise. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip the magic glass into her frozen hand. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He lived in a thin, hard core of consciousness; he felt time slipping by; the darkness round him lived, breathed. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The following month, as Lavoisier and his wife were making tardy plans to slip away to Scotland, Lavoisier was arrested. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was a child of the working class who, through ill-considered choices and circumstance, slipped into the welfare class and had to fight her way out. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Kino could see them in his mind, slipping along the track, whining a little with eagerness, and behind them, dark and half disinterested, the horseman with the rifle. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't that long ago that I slipped notes into your locker, marked with bff and for your eyes only and our nicknames—mizz frizz and strawberry girl. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He pulls a notepad out of the front pocket of the smock and slips it into the back pocket of his jeans. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His eyes slipped on past and lighted on Lennie; and Lennie was still smiling with delight at the memory of the ranch. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass would bend down before the hide, making a soft cushion over which the hide slipped easily. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thoughts of Scoob’s mom slip back into his head like those long stringy clouds, see-through and not fully formed but visible. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

My hair was in a ponytail, but a few wisps of hair had slipped out and fluttered across my cheek in the breeze. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They scrambled up the slopes, some of them slipping and falling. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you a different one, a’ight. Nothing like how me and Robbie was,” Mr. Ray said again, slipping his arm back into his suit jacket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The foreman tears a sheet from a notepad and tears up little slips of paper for ballots. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get up and slip it under my pillow. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When he raised his head and saw Tyrion, the spoon slipped from his hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And then Ellen slips out of the last classroom on the right. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Some students were crowding around the edges, hoping to slip in on the side and get in before anyone else. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The oars were long and there were no leathers to keep them from slipping out. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He rips a foot into the earth and slips back to a walk, hearing her voice call out, coming closer. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I rolled my eyes and slipped the journal into my cargo shorts’ pocket. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Once everyone had finished cheering and I’d finished pretending to be surprised, my mom slipped her arm around me and whispered, “Is this okay?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Errooowww!” something screams beneath me, and I hurry to my feet, slipping on the leaves. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And once they were tied, it’d be much easier for the Midwest team to slip into the lead. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once, looking suddenly back, as if some prickle of the skin told him that he was watched from behind, he thought he caught a brief glimpse of a small dark shape slipping behind a tree-trunk. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I slipped from their gaze and found a playground. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But Scipio had already slipped off the lion's back and was now climbing on to the sea horse. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped off my Vans and set them against the door. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He’d let it slip my last night on Buck’s Peak, the same night he’d said he wouldn’t come to see me graduate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I slipped my hands into my pockets and casually walked home, another harmless pedestrian out for a stroll. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was one awkward spot, where there was no ledge and the wall was sheer and even undercut for a short space; there he slipped and swung out on the silver line. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was trying to fit a white cap over my dark Persian curls, but it kept slipping off. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tayo stepped inside one that was half buried in the reddish blow sand; he hooked an edge with the toe of his boot, and then he let it slip into the sand again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped outside and saw how still Montego Drive looked—quiet as a ghost town, the air hushed and peaceful, the only sound the pulsing rhythm of Mrs. Cantrell's sprinklers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As I am writing this chapter, every few pages I see the green wiggly line of Microsoft Word’s grammar checker, and usually it flags an agreement error that slipped under my tree-spotting radar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I slip off the headphones and hang them around my neck. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I imagined him still standing in our yard, frozen under the deluge, baptizing an endless circle of children, who would slip away and return with new faces requiring his blessing. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment it seemed like Mom had been wearing a mask, and the mask slipped. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He turned away and slipped into the water without a splash, and began to swim in his steady, tireless paddle toward the new world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his father would create some kind of distraction and allow him to slip through...perhaps... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped inside the boys’ bathroom and left Rachel Elizabeth Dare standing outside. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

With the demotion of Nick to our ranks, the peaceful interlude began to slip away, and my life once more became complicated, filled with anxiety and finally danger. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Much like tonight, he had felt too worked up to sleep, and despite the late hour he had slipped quietly out of bed and crept down to Mr. Benedict’s study. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over my nightgown, I put on one of Daddy’s old button- down shirts and slip out the front door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I turned back to Frankie, his smile had slipped from his lips. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I leave my mother to her pancake flipping, slip on my boots and coat, and head out the front door. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then I slipped out the back door, holding my new shoes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joan slipped out a pale blue envelope from her skirt pocket and waved it teasingly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then she slipped a decoy over the back of her own head and picked up the empty pail and a cotton undervest of Neel’s. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He still wasn’t moving much, so I slipped the rest of the way down the hill behind some boulders, until I was at the edge of the open space of snow. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod slipped through the crypt door, down into the crypt. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She went into her room and rummaged around in there for a bit while I tried to decide if I could slip out of Daddy’s office quietly. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He moved around North America, through Chicago, New York, Canada, riding the tough horses, the sour ones, and the nervous ones, but his statistics continued to slip. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands shone with the pungent juice and slipped around as she worked the tip of the blade back and forth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We have no chance of slipping out of our organized lines and skipping the pep rally in the gym. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Yarwyck and Marsh were slipping out, he saw, and all their men behind them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There are the usual conjectures about what it can be, the usual suspicion that there is a Spanish spy among us who is slipping ratsbane into our food and drink. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nervous laughter echoed around the room as he rose, and Father Olufemi took his slip from him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Then he took the letter she had written and slipped it into one of the many pockets of his robe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Her green rhinestone-studded glasses slipped down her fleshy nose as she grappled with a tall triangular package and a stuffed shopping bag. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

From behind the faucet, I took the scissors he used to trim his mustache and slipped them into the bag, too. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“No thank you,” he says, slipping his hands in his pockets. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I shove the rod in harder and finally make the space to slip away. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I felt my consciousness slipping as the pain subsided. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t in fact require help with either, but they’re all so afraid I’m going to slip and break my hip again that I get a chaperone whether I like it or not. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Chubs gritted his teeth and slipped his arms around me, making sure he had a good hold. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“An important room, this!” cried Mr. Wonka, taking a bunch of keys from his pocket and slipping one into the keyhole of the door. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

An oblong slip of newspaper had appeared between O’Brien’s fingers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Constance replied grumpily, sliding her tiny wrists free of the metal bands and slipping her head out of the helmet. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

If Shin had not slipped in the snow, he would have reached the fence first and he probably would have died. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I slipped on my shift and went up to my bedchamber. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spot my father, waiting in a line to enter the hall, and I slip my hand in his. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly there came a loud crash from somewhere in the house above me, and I startled so badly that all the pictures slipped from my hands. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Magdalys slowed a bit so she wouldn’t slip and splatter herself all over the stone walking path ahead. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I back out, close the door, slip the padlock through the loop, and snap it closed. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I watch Lou Anne slip away in the parking lot, thinking, There is so much you don’t know about a person. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Chronicler let slip a small laugh, though he did not look up from his page or pause in his writing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Miguelito had longer legs than I did, but I kept up with him until I slipped and lost my balance. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

About 6 percent of the time, as the subjects were repeating what they heard in the left ear, a word from the right ear, the unattended one, would slip through into their report. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I push aside low-hanging branches, step on weeds, grass, slips of bark. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When they came back he slipped the suitcoats from their hangers and shook them out and folded them across his arm. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The tears that had slipped down my dress left unsurprising dark spots, and made the front yard blurry and even more unreal. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This idea of Kang’s, the use of the red and white slip . . . could it be of such newness and beauty that it would mean a commission? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I slip into a quiet, out-of-the-way bar in the lower floor of a brownstone just off of Seventh Avenue. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip the crucifix around my neck into my mouth—something I’ve started doing when I need extra good luck. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He slipped silently into a stand of green reeds, downstream from where Gray’s body rested. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I took the necklace and slipped it over my head. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I felt in my wallet for the pad and pencil, then slipped into the stream of people which bore me, like a stick on the flood, through the entrance. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I realize my shirt has slipped to the side and I fix it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The hare stayed put, and when his hosts had gone he slipped out of the lion skin to play with the baboon children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Lazlo was always finding ways to slip off on his own, and his legs were always striped from the hazel switch that hung from a hook with his name on it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When it was dark, we went inside and kept threading, stopping only to hunt for any beads that slipped away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The down quilt Mom put on my bed is too light, and it keeps slipping off during the night. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched her walk to the hedge that separated the two compounds and slip underneath it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could only hold his head between his arms to try and block the vision that slipped in anyway. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was done he felt a pleasing lightness in the air around him which slipped silkily over his skin and through his nostrils. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her slip was pink as petals, the straps gossamer-fine against the azure of her skin. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Jus’ try an’ slip the rope ’round his sting, so he won’ hurt any o’ the others!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I slipped out of bed again, this time being extra sure to make no sound at all. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He let it slip from his hand and brushed his palms. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Which way do I pull my parachute slips if the wind is blowing left to right? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I slip my hand in his pants, heading for the bulge. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The dog lunges, and every move that follows slips into slow motion: I’m falling. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She could hear shouts in the distance, and slipping hurriedly into her boots she fled along the roadway. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If she begged him to straighten, he slouched, almost slipping through her hands. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before he emerged through the trees and stepped into the driveway, Rahel saw him and slipped out of the Play and went to him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to walk forward, away from the log, further up the slope and back toward the heart of the party, but she slipped and went down into the dirt and the leaves. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia slips her hand down the front of her army fatigue pants. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At her words, inexplicably, the boy’s body slipped from me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His hand slips into hers easily, like he’s known her for a long time. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She chuckles and slips her hands into my jeans and down the sides of my legs. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Tiny Robin slipped between the Blue Springs player and the ball, and kicked it clear. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She lifted her breasts a little wistfully with her palms, then let them fall, turned around, and slipped slowly backward into the cool water. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped an arm around my shoulders as we squinted up at the Jumbotron, waiting for the score. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I slipped my fingers between hers, and she gripped my hand good. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her small feet had probably slipped on the slick ice and she had fallen into the icy waters. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped into bed and faced the wall, but I could feel that fan. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Khrazz cursed and turned a high cut into a low one, slipping past the old knight’s blade for once, only to have his blow scrape uselessly off a white steel greave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Harry reached the castle, slipped in through the front doors, and began to climb the marble stairs; he was very out of breath, but he didn’t dare slow down. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And I grabbed her crescent flukes and tugged, inch by inch, until the water lifted her enough so we both slipped back suddenly into the sea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jack slipped into a low gear and we trundled slowly through them, coming out at a short straight stretch that bottomed out into a wide inside curve, a rocky cliff looming over it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Prowling and purloinment are my specialty,” he assured us, and with that he slipped away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Just the flat of his hand low on her back, slipped beneath her blazer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw the luminous woman with polished shoulders and the little boy, a shadow slipped across his face. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

These injuries and complaints range from blisters to severe tendonitis, bursitis, slipped vertebrae, rotator cuff dysfunction, and stress fractures, particularly fractures of the ribs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Slowly the door opened and Robin slipped outside. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Once, he signs his old name by mistake on a credit card slip at the college bookstore. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad slipped out of his flannel shirt and pressed it to my leg. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, she slips off her sandals and begins to stride toward the deep end. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I can surround it with stone, just in case it slips the Iron Rod...reinforce it with great deeds...I will not be a poor mortal!" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I slipped through the sleeping house as silently as a needle through lace. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Willow wasn't paying attention, Mai would slip it someplace she would find it. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Matty slipped into a group that had gathered and was standing nearest to the platform, a simple wooden structure like a stage that was used for many occasions when the people came together. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw more ’snappers sleeping in the slips where half a hundred ships might once have docked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I think you can sort of slip out of your life and it can be hard to find a way back in. But you kids are my way back in.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Sparrow and Ruby threw snowballs at each other, their laughter a bit too sharp, their aim a bit too true, and Minya slipped away somewhere, promising to release the ghost, Ari-Eil, to his natural evanescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She meant that she didn’t want to hear Vonetta and Fern tearing up order to find slips, socks, barrettes, and gloves. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Painful shame gripped Cole as waste slipped from his body and a raw stench filled the air. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The servicemen are gone, and so are the slips. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d slipped her backpack to the floor and sat down next to it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Playing in the street was discouraged and often forbidden and if you did manage to slip out, “Get your butt in this house before dark,” she would warn, a rule she enforced to the bone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whitiker was struck by his manners and how he spoke like the teachers and social workers she had known growing up— enunciating his words, slipping in a few she didn’t know. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The man slipped a soft circle of rope over Fred’s head. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I pause in my sweeping and sit down beside him on the sofa, listening to his words slip out, soft and thoughtful, painting pictures of temples and pyramids. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mass shifted again, and Matt slipped down a few more feet. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not expect to slip into a dreamspace where she could see and talk to him, and indeed she didn’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So I slip under the barbed wire and into the woods. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The man staggered and the soldier slapped him again and again and again and he crashed to the ground and the key slipped out of his hand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was food on the land and the snow was slipping away. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slips the sheet onto a clipboard and hands it over. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, six cars ahead, he saw Father Mike dart out of line, cutting off another car and slipping into a toll booth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I slip back behind the corner and climb up onto the washing machine next to my mom’s coat. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding that, he would have been lynched by the populace had he not been clever enough to give them the slip. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they got back to Jenny’s place, Cha-Cha slipped away to visit Duke. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was always good at memory games, and as a boy I annoyed my father by beating him if he slipped just once. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angel slipped the jab, and Denny slipped the jab, while Henry screamed and Bud yelled, and sometimes Donatelli watched and sometimes he didn't. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Relax, Chaol,” he said, and his hand slipped to rest on her back, his fingers grazing her bare skin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then she brushed the yellow hair, enjoying the roll and slip of it between her fingers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people had even slipped away from the reservations to join the gathering. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

And then it came, so smoothly buttered, it almost slipped right by me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, he let his mind slip into whatever cave mouths of memory it chose. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The board slipped downward faster and faster, the metal-detector lights flickering out one by one. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

My flip-flop slips on some loose earth, and all at once I’m skidding downhill. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

His life had consisted of a series of traps and obstacles—all the way back to the Nampa gang—that he’d slip or bump into and come to see as his inevitable fate. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip into the black dress with the deep V in the front, the black Delman flats. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I slip off the headphones, wrap the yellow cord tightly around the Walkman, and tuck it in my jacket pocket. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Some of the bolts did not want to slip through their holes; also I put the grate on backward the first time and had to take it off again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some afternoons, however, he would quietly slip away, and his lab group had it that a special girl friend existed. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Winterbottom took the envelope and turned it over and over before she slowly unsealed it and slipped out the message. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Anya took the rubles and slipped them into her pocket, the weight there somehow even heavier than the horseshoes from earlier. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

In my agitation, the hood slipped from my head just as Claudius spurred his horse and seized the mane to keep his slack body from falling off. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ultima nodded courteously, but I slipped out of the kitchen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers give us permission slips for our parents to sign. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She opened the door just far enough to slip through, into the hallway beyond. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The water felt good; slipping, sliding away all the things I wanted to forget. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you want to hear, Adam? Or are you slipping into your cloud bath?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped it in with the only thing that mattered that day. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

One false step, and he could slip right between the ties to the river. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were busy, he slipped out from under the burlap and straightened his orange vest. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju asked again, letting her handbag slip to the floor and moving forward, her hand outstretched, her face savage with hope. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She would slip and turn her ankle, or cut her foot on a sharp stone, and I’d be forced to rush over. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He will pay dearly if he unwittingly slips to beta. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then going through the other door to the hall he pulled the door to, locked it and slipped the key into his pocket. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m better at games when I can mostly use the joy stick,” I said as Connor slipped the disc into the console. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I catch her slipping upstairs to the empty bedrooms almost every day now. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I pull the headphones from my ears and slip them around my neck. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The word threw cold water on the warmth that I’d been slipping into. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I slipped my own hands under his sweatshirt, and the skin there was hot hut smooth. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Elinor began snoring after only a few minutes, but hard as Meggie tried she couldn’t get to sleep, so she got up quietly and slipped outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All my life, if the word ever slipped out of my mouth, he’d snap into me faster than a rattlesnake. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

"Oh, but the seafood here is so good," the doctor pleaded, looking at her from above his glasses, which had slipped down on his nose like a schoolteacher's. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe so, but right then Joe felt like a lint-headed fool, crazier than she and just as wild as he slipped into mud, tripped over black roots, scuffed through patches of dirt crawling with termites. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gourd slipped from her hands as she started to double over, but with surprising speed, the old woman was at her side again, holding her upright. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Almost every night, somewhere in the South, a slave slipped away from the quarter. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We think that starting all-star leagues and gifted programs as early as possible is the best way of ensuring that no talent slips through the cracks. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She jumped back and lifted her dress up, foot slipping on the mud near the water. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He passed Filch in the doorway; Filch’s pale, wild eyes looked straight through him, and Harry slipped under Filch’s outstretched arm and streaked off up the corridor, the book’s shrieks still ringing in his ears. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Celia almost makes it to Hilly this time, only to have Hilly slip behind the podium table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She tapped his grizzled cheek playfully, and slipped away, back to the palace. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

As far as timing goes, I’m starting to get the feeling that it’s now or never, so I slip on a desert camouflage tactical vest and head next door. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We all like appreciation for our own hard work, of course. But you must have had an accomplice, all the same...someone in Hogsmeade, someone who was able to slip Katie the — the — aaaah...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The chaplain beamed gratefully and then peered down at a slip of paper he had been concealing in his hand all the while. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Donovan slipped behind the wheel, started the car, and pulled out of the lot. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It must have been a slip of the tongue, because Starry would never hurt me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few people slipped out of the ranks, hoping to hide in some abandoned building. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip it behind the strip and pull down as hard as I can—it shifts the teeniest bit. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Pearl slipped out of bed and together they crept to the kitchen. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I handed Santiclo my little gold one from my First Communion I’d always worn, he gave me a quick wink and slipped it in his pocket. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun grew golden, then rusty as it slipped slowly toward the horizon. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had told myself to hang back—didn’t want to be lumped in with someone like Mildred—but I found myself running up to him and slipping something in his hand. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The two men laughed again, and Toby tried to slip away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was much too large and slipped down over his eyes, just as it had done the last time he’d put it on. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Oh yeah, one good thing—Pastor Ted slipped in behind us. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I quickly straightened her room after she left and slipped on my satchel. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Fadi slipped the book under the sofa and dove under the covers, pretending to be asleep. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I took off my costume and slipped on some boxer shorts and a sweatshirt. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Studies of ancient skeletons indicate that the transition to agriculture brought about a plethora of ailments, such as slipped discs, arthritis and hernias. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men danced and slipped and fell over them. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elsie looks over as I slip the key into the lock and she sits up. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Celestial bronze O-ring slipped out of Leo’s pliers and slid into the depths of the crawl space. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Devan, leave us,” she said, and the squire slipped away and closed the door behind him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now, he thought, that all these transitory things have slipped away from me again, I stand once more beneath the sun, as I once stood as a small child. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slipped out from the protection of the wall and headed for the front door—only to run straight into a man standing in front of the entrance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Put my hands to my face and realize my hands are bleeding and that’s what made ’em slip away from the oars. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Very well,” he says, and then slips into a white undershirt on which he has written with Magic Markers. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She surprised me by taking off half and slipping them onto mine. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He slipped the halter and dropped it in the manger. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was halfway through “Ten Tap Tim” when the sun slipped out from behind the clouds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While the Yoshotos were still in the kitchen, I slipped downstairs and telephoned the Windsor Hotel—which Bobby’s friend, Mrs. X, had recommended to me before I’d left New York. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He glares at me, and then slips the sash over his head and holds it out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was moving carefully, so as not to slip on the ice, when I passed the doors of the Longhorn Saloon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I think really he preferred slipping off quietly in the end,’ said Gandalf. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Days have a way of slipping past like raindrops in a river. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I slipped out of my daddy's office and into my room just as Mrs. Baylor was calling me to dinner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Hannah rolled her eyes up and slipped farther down in the seat. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped into my pants and walked barefoot down the narrow, dim-lit hall to the door with a crudely lettered sign reading MEN. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be right back,” I say and I slip into the kitchen, carrying my satchel with me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The only thing slightly off was his penny loafers, which were two sizes too big, but he’d stuffed cotton in the tips so that they wouldn’t slip off. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I close the book and slip it back into the backpack. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I see,” said Armpit, trying to sound as if the matter was of little importance to him, but a little bit of a smile slipped out despite his efforts. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She felt the board lose purchase, slipping downward. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He wrote very carefully on a slip of paper, Are you Democrat or Republican? and passed the paper across the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And just in case all that slipped my mind, two, three times a week Pastor Ted was there, on the other end of the line, going on about Stan’s one-way trip to paradise. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He slipped the disc into the stereo and pushed play. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I look and look for what will feed us while the one-brow man slips in and out of the crowd. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was so much taller than I that we jostled each other down the steps, so I let go of his arm and slipped my hand into his. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Harry slipped on his Invisibility Cloak once he had found an empty passage, but he need not have bothered. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My socks are puddled down around my loafers, and my headband has slipped back on my head. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Nico slips off his sneakers and lines them up neatly on the mat by the door. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When he slipped into the alley he felt something else, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I did, but his blood continued to slip through my fingers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He watched her face, and her eyes never shifted; they were with him while she moved out of her clothes and while she slipped his jeans down his legs, stroking his thighs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly he slipped up a cobbled street, turned into a garden, stripped off his uniform and hung it on a clothesline. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma agreed that I might as well close, and I went out on the porch, closed the shutters, slipped the wooden bar over the door and turned off the light. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had simply swum down to the muddy bottom of the pool, slipped between two flat stones, and waited while the net had gone above him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

One girl left with a broken leg after slipping on a bar of soap Pilar dropped while the nanny was bathing her in the sink. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped a hand through the opening and worked the rope. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When no one was looking, he slipped a note to the deputy sheriff. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The dove of peace Dri slipped into my pocket while we were at the diner. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was little time to waste by having him come off the campaign trail to celebrate Malia’s birthday, and he couldn’t slip out of voters’ view on what was the country’s most symbolic holiday. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I move closer to the window so I can tell him to stop if I see the ladder slip. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I slip my flip-flops on and go downstairs, out of the front door and on to Blenheim Road. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip on a fleece and start the short trek up. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

"Maybe we can slip back out now," I suggest. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But he had made David learn the feel of the boat, learn to ease her backward out of the slip gently, silently, then let the sails fill and move forward effortlessly. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

By October San Piedro had slipped off its summer reveler’s mask to reveal a torpid, soporific dreamer whose winter bed was made of wet green moss. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She pats my shoulder before slipping out of the room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I slip the pistol into my belt and cover it with my shirt. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And thankfully, her mother was busy with the vegetable garden, so she didn’t notice Stella slipping in a little later than usual. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Oh, if only he hadn’t slipped and fallen and dropped that precious bag. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped through the fence as quick as I could, and when I rounded the corner with the poster, there was no one there. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he gave the kid a slip of paper with his phone number on it, which Alex carefully tucked into a nylon wallet. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was certain he was safe, he slipped his arms beneath the boy and gathered him up. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped a hand under Penny’s tunic, just to be sure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The moonlight slipped over the table in the corner and washed across the polished wooden floor. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the long wait, the murmuring crowd, the timer blinking a new track record, and again, the soft whir of the finish photo slipping down to the stewards. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped out of his flying harness, and his wings shot back up toward the ceiling. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I pull back the covers, tucked tightly around the mattress, and slip between the sheets. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hold up the slip I drew from the bowl. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then she caught me slipping and added, "Ghost." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To some people,” Rafe replied, then slipped his apron over his head. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Kavita barely glances at me before slipping off her book bag and taking a seat next to Ma’s purse on the bench. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

As I slip to the counter and pay, I look back at Ma and the man, cautious not to be seen, but she’s totally engrossed in him. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

But the hope that kept the grief at bay is dwindling, slipping away with each word she speaks. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She slipped the piece of driftwood into her new coat pocket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But maybe with the tree’s magic weakening he’d managed to slip in. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“When the vigils flopped. Well, I let all my energy for them slip away too. I shouldn't have.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps I should send you to finishing school with her daughters. You might learn how to walk like the slip of a thing you are and not like a small elephant.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

A laugh slips out, and I stop myself. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Smith let him make his own choices and slipped him up on Seabiscuit’s back for a few light gallops. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marble underfoot was cold and slick, and Cersei had to step carefully for fear of slipping. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I left the light off and slipped out, closing the door. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had soon slipped back into her Oxford voice, and now she was acquiring a gyptian one, complete with Fen-Dutch words. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I glance back at Connor, but he doesn’t stir as I slip free from the covers, the fabric whispering against my flannel pajamas. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She slipped out of bed, tiptoed into her closet, and knelt beside the hole. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

We slipped off our sandals where the road met the sand and carried them up a dune, weaving through patches of beach grass and the green-and-rust-colored ice plants. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Diego took his schedule, folded it neatly, and slipped it into his back pocket. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They slipped through the doorway behind them and down a tightly spiraling stone staircase. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even the Congo has tried to slip out of her old flesh, to pretend it isn’t scarred. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip it into my closet—there's plenty of room—and when I turn back, I'm faced with the worst part of all: my bulletin board without a single thing on it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I slipped a foot out of my flat and opened my book bag. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Max tilts her head to the sky, a narrow beam of sunlight slipping through the buildings and falling on her face. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A few months prior, Kermit had been standing on a steel beam that was being hoisted over the river gorge when the crane slipped. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Cal slipped out the kitchen door and moved through Lee’s waning kitchen garden. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beto slipped past the stout legs of the mothers on their bench and climbed over their squirming babies to get to the aisle. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I handed him my paintbrush, slipped my shoe back on, and walked off with Connor down Main Street. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the corner he paused, checked again, and then slipped under a flap. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

As I leaned in, my mother’s slip of a dress suddenly felt too small and too frail on me and I felt ridiculously underdressed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

His words slipped over one another, slurred by booze. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The red bow had slipped from the back of his neck to the side. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He smiles slowly, like the moon slipping beneath the waves of the lake. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No one noticed when Ivy slipped quietly out the door. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The one with the hands slipping from his grasp, no matter how hard he tried to hold on. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my eyes away from his perfection as much as possible, but I slipped often. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Still, he didn’t seem to notice when Julia slipped over and snuggled against me inside my sleeping bag. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The daylight slipped away and the place darkened. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a new story, and yet she slipped entirely away, not waking up one morning. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Farrow tucked his slip of paper back into his pocket and stepped out into the hallway, leaving my door standing open. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as they’re gone, Max comes down the ladder with a slip of paper. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She should not have run away from her own house because Mama’s medicine had pushed Master into the arms of this common slip of a girl. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hanako was so busy watching him that she lost focus, so when he pulled on the twine, her peg slipped loose. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I have to slip off my thongs to throw at them before they’ll pipe down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At any sign that these virtues were slipping away, they began to panic that it had been wrong to bring us here. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I open the door, slip inside, and click the lock behind me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to her desk and slipped out a sheet of paper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She pictures them slipping from their sockets and moving before her in a steady gait, still wearing their rubber-soled shoes, their white-ribbed stockings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she hung flapping uselessly, Matthias called down, “Make up your mind! My paws are getting tired. This lead’s beginning to slip.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The other mother reached her white fingers for them, but Coraline slipped them back into her pocket. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Stepping outside, I slipped on an icy step and pitched, face-forward, into more than a foot of snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But now I had a chance to force back, a slim nothing of a chance that I could already feel slipping away. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The scissors slip through my hands to the ground. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then I take off the dress itself and slip the thin sequined straps over my shoulders. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She hands me a new card, and I slip it carefully into my empty satchel. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He slipped the note between the bust and its pedestal, and stepped back. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Javi slipped in the grass and laughed as he tumbled to the ground. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly Headless Nick chortled so much that his ruff slipped and his head flopped off, dangling on the inch or so of ghostly skin and muscle that still attached it to his neck. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

A maid without a tongue could never let slip any secrets. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nessie slips out of the room as quietly as she appeared, and from the look on her face I know that the story of Katherine Deveraux will be on every drovers lips by nightfall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She slipped away to get his brandy, and stopped in the sluice to be sick. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Zed helped himself to a bowl of cereal, and the towel slipped lower as he reached for the milk. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the lump of my money slip out and away. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The children ran down that section of path, slipping, tumbling, jumping from rock to rock. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hang up on David, slip the phone in my pocket, and step out of the bathroom. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In the far corner of the room, something crashed: her bag had slipped off the chair onto the floor and when she looked back, she was alone in the room. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

This is where, days before, the skip tracers had tried to slip through the camp’s wire fences and Hayes had “taken care” of them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I took my botde, climbed out onto the fire escape and slipped over to her window just as her front door opened. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What?” said Harry, feeling his spirits slip a further few notches. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I slipped the freezing whisde into my pocket, promising myself that I would never use it, and I dashed off to find Annabeth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then he slipped the drawings underneath his bed, onto the big pile of other drawings he had done, and climbed fully dressed into bed. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the man at the end of the row slipped out and took another seat. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After thirty minutes, the room started to slip away from me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I slip one hand inside on the right, and just like the weighted blanket, warm water massages my hands, followed by warm air. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But then the book slipped from her fingers and she fell asleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I did so; then I tucked the letter down inside my shirt and left, slipping out the back way and through his pasture before I cut back onto the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman slipped a hand under her skirt to reknot the top of her stocking. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

On some moonlit nights she and her mother slipped outside and stood together in the breeze, slapping at mosquitoes and watching the clouds slide past the bright globe in the night sky. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Picked up the food stamps, looked from me to Baba like we were pulling a prank, or “slipping her a trick” as Hassan used to say. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped on a cue stick lying in the middle of the floor and tumbled forward. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth moves against mine, and his hand slips under the hem of the T-shirt, and I don’t stop him, though I know I should. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick’s voice comes from the bed next to me and slips into my consciousness. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Stansfield had taken roll, and the morning announce-merits happened, which was usually about permission slips and the day's lunch menu. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Frank Sinatra appears, a disembodied voice, sliding around on the tune like someone slipping on a muddy sidewalk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Terrance got to Cora, he slipped his hand into her shift and cupped her breast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I slipped out of Daddy’s arms and checked all of Dismay’s usual sleeping places, just to make sure he hadn’t found his way home somehow and gone to sleep not wanting to disturb us. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I glare at Elizabeth until her smile slips and she looks away. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then they would put the sled away, and slip back to their bench and the catechism before their father woke up. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song ends, and I slip out and around to the back row of the auditorium, known among the theater kids—aspirationally—as Makeout Alley. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Red Jeyne loped over to lick at his hand, and Helicent slipped under the table and curled up by his feet, gnawing at a bone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I slip on her high heels and let my hair loose and admire myself in the mirror. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped his feet into his sandals and went outside to watch the dawn. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon shone on Grandpop like a spotlight, and he was slipping a finger behind his sunglasses and wiping his eyes. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I lay awake longer than even Chi-Boy that night, long enough to see him slip the white trapper hat under Wab’s pillow and linger to touch her long hair as she slept. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The party was slipping away in sweet sadness, Eddie went out in the office and did a little tap dance and came back and sat down again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, we slip under his arm. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Some slipped out of windows and jumped to the ground. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Back in London, Blake slipped quietly into his new routine of spying on England for the KGB—all the while pretending to spy on the Soviets for MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d hang on for a little longer, inhaling more and more of the poisonous air, clinging like a bug to the wall, but eventually he’d get too tired and high, and he’d slip off. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Catelyn saw the shadow slip through the open door behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Matthias slipped the master key from around Brum’s neck and dragged him into an empty cell, propping him up against the wall in a seated position. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He touched the screen door in back, found it open, slipped in, moved across the porch, listening. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver stealthily slipped the letter under the door, then snuck back down the stairs, quiet as a mouse. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He slipped between the stones, and into the crypt, where he sat and waited for Silas to return. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Whenever she had a chance, she slipped outdoors to work in the vegetable garden or to tend to the animals with her father. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"I have to go," I say, slipping out from between him and the wall. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

While the cameras were focused on Haley’s smile, Mrs. Daley wrapped up a couple of chicken kebabs in a napkin and slipped them inside her purse. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

At restaurants Bobby always carried with him a virtual pharmacy of remedies and potions to immediately counteract any poisons that the Soviets might slip into his food or drink. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Would your mistress notice if you slipped away?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, I realized that Jeffrey must have slipped off the stool and banged his face on the counter. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she slipped another note under the door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He would use words a foot long and then slip up on his grammar. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He hid in the scrape all night; and the next morning, when the children were brought to play, he slipped out and joined them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as my mother and sister are asleep, I slip the pearl from the drawer and spend a second sleepless night clutching it in my hand, replaying Peeta’s words in my head. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She places this glop in the nearest wall hole, wipes her hands on her skirt, spots a lizard running along the wall and follows it until it slips into another wall hole. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

We also slip them under the doors of the tenants that Nora says own dogs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lon slipped into the Library, clinging to the walls as the Second had instructed him, pretending that he too could melt seamlessly into dapplings of light on the marble floor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And I feel all the breath slip out of me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That’s the only time I felt anger through it all, seeing that rehearsed mask slip over his dark face. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Ron was resentful that Harry hadn’t slipped him a bezoar too. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Stick slipped on his shades, tapped the side of my arm with his fist, then walked away. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Not that a staff shortage is not significant in itself; but if Miss Kenton were indeed to return to Darlington Hall, such little slips, I am sure, would become a thing of the past. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He closed the screen door gently as he entered and slipped past his mother, who was rocking herself in the kitchen chair watching TV. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Other times, when he was tired of being a wolf, Bran slipped into Hodor’s skin instead. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Part of her scalp slipped off, revealing a perfectly round hole in the back of her skull. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And I refuse to let them slip through my fingers again! The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She slapped at her wet slip and sighed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As consciousness slipped away, he wondered where he could get a cool five-sided bolt like that. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton had slipped his blues harp in his pocket while he was getting dressed. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

We slipped through a door that was hanging off its hinges and stepped down into a sea of dark, aromatic muck. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I then fold the paper in half and slip it into the suggestion box, which is located next to the water fountain on the first floor. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Cry ‘havoc,’” Halsey whispered, “and let slip the dactyls of war.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I pecked his cheek and he slipped a piece of hard candy into my hand. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt the Ring on its chain, and quite unaccountably the desire came over him to slip it on and vanish out of the silly situation. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He rocked his head, working to keep the pencil from slipping off. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias says, slipping between his bunk and mine to stand in the aisle with us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He slips out onto the portico without really thinking about it, and the instant the door closes behind him, the music snuffs out into silence, and it’s just him and Henry and the garden. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

By the end of that cheery little number, my mom’s post-rally euphoria seemed to be slipping. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I slipped on my sneakers and Orlando Magic cap and headed down the block. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Around them, the sounds of the feast continued, but muted and distant, as if their little cluster of couches had slipped into a quieter dimension. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She slipped quietly downstairs with the bag in one hand and the note for Elinor in the other. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

One of the cops started running around the front of the car and slipped on some dog doo. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she slipped it out of her apron pocket and opened to a well-worn page. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She hid the branch behind the ventilator and slipped along the deck until she reached the first window. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tiptoed back to the bed, slipped matches into his pocket, detached the plug of the electric lamp by his bed and picked it up, winding the flex round it. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“A slip of paper? Something you find in a basket of eggs?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She slipped the pins into the pocket of her apron and started to smooth her hair so she could put it back into a braid. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This time, we waited until dark fell and slipped under a hole in the fence close to the butcher. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was wearing her pink slip, and it bore no blooms of blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

His foot slipped; his momentum carried him down toward the stream; and Balthamos, thinking of what Baruch would have done, kicked aside the priest’s hand as he flung it out for support. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As he passed behind me, he slipped his hand under my raised arms and pinched my left nipple. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You know darn well Mrs. Miyamoto isn’t going to slip Mr. Miyamoto any kind of weapon. Back off a little. Let them talk.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ivory, dressed in his uniform and smelling of sour sweat, groaned as the needle attached to the IV bag slipped into his vein. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as he did so, Hare slipped out of his skin and sailed away in the air. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Dr. Webb says that had Lucas Cader never met my family, he may very well have slipped into the same messed-up life that had ended both his father and brother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

There was the rushing sound of seventy-five thousand voices and the tumbling motion of horses and the flight of wind and dirt and the airy unreal feeling of mass and gravity slipping away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blond, stylishly dressed woman slipped from behind the wheel, talking on her cell phone. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“I’ll fix something,” Carolina said, climbing dutifully out of bed and slipping her feet into some fluffy pink slippers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byrd has left her spot in the garden, already slipped off her gloves, and gone to Daniel’s grandpa with hellos. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They dropped Harry; he hit the ground, slipped on the rock, and fell, grazing his arms, but scrambled back up, raising his wand and staring around. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

As a last touch, she slipped in a tiny caterpillar or “summer bird” to help bring her composition to life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then she slipped behind benches and columns and disappeared down the hallway. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

With shaking hands, he held the foot of red plastic and dough to his mouth and slipped it in two inches at a time. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever it was has just slipped out of sight. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

How stupid could I be to let that slip? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It slipped my mind. David asked me to find you and take you to the labs. There’s something there that belonged to your mother.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The world was as quiet as if it had spun itself into a cocoon like a moth preparing itself to slip out in the morning, young again and good as new. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So I go down to the library and wait for like ten minutes for Miss Fowell to get back from somewhere and I asked her for a slip so I could get a video camera. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

That sent them into an uproarious bout of laughter, and they slipped past him into the kitchen to finish up that night’s meal. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for an answer I slip inside the door and shut it behind me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He’d slipped over little by little till he was almost horizontal. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I watch her tear the slip across the serrated plastic and drop it into a wastebasket. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Lynn needed to stop to adjust her grip more and more frequently, and finally, the blanket slipped out of her hands. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The screwdriver slipped, and I hit my thumb really hard and the lock stayed locked. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He had posted guards around Mole’s Town, both to keep his crows away from the wildling women and to keep the free folk from slipping off southward to raid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had the patience to listen to her for a whole day until he caught her in a slip. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Even an oil-burning car slipped through the broken streets, its engine whining and grinding. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the space between the dash and the hood, his gaze slips back and forth from me to the engine. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I secure Bobo’s door and slip into the connection, the roofless canvas tunnel that joins the menagerie to the big top. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He almost slipped on the icy steps as he spun around to find me. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Grabbing my coat from the front closet, I quietly open the front door and slip outside. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A familiar shame crept over me, the shame of slipping past a stranger in the street and relieving him of his wallet without him even knowing it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was the anonymous letter, which burned so quickly that as it flamed I hurriedly unfolded another: It was that slip upon which Jack had written my Brotherhood name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he did I slipped the dagger from my pocket and gave it to him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

With the twenty-five cents apiece that Dad gave Mary Alice and me, we could each buy five Nehis during our week, if we could slip off from Grandma long enough to get our allowances spent. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slip out a sealed letter and read aloud. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Later while Mrs. Jordan was talking to the doctor in the hall, I slipped into his office for a private visit with my sister. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My feet slipped on the snow-covered ice, but I made it across and I lay for a moment in a grateful, exhausted pile. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She put her faded blue bathrobe over her slip. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t read it or even look at it, but he said, “Marvelous! Brilliant!” as he slipped it into his briefcase. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Unlike Justin, whose maturity helped him handle this transition much better than I did, I began to let my grades slip. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Worst fog I ever did see. You couldn’t tell which way to go....Later on they tied me up again. I slipped the knot.” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

She hooked a finger into his cheek and pulled as if trying to rip the side of his face off, but her finger slipped out. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The door opens, and he slips inside, closing it silently behind him. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

So just now, I took the queen of hearts, slipped it out the window, and watched it sailing down to the yard below. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Before I can second-guess myself, I slip all the way inside. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It slips out of my hand and falls open. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lost my grandmother’s antique bracelet in the trash! The clasp broke, and the whole thing slipped off!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“Recoil. He didn’t have it tight enough. Musta slipped—hit him in the face!” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

All of it, together, was horrifying, and the small amount of courage Thomas had gathered began to slip away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It is in the graceful slouch of the men slipping their hands into the pockets of their tuxedo trousers. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The permission slip had clearly stated that students were forbidden to make any purchases. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

She covers her face but a tear slips through her fingers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Kyle slipped on his jeans and sneakers and staggered out into the giant reading room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Just before reaching the top, his claws slipped in the icy mud. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slips through the basement door, out into the backyard, and starts kicking the ball gently from one foot to the other. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She slips her hand over mine and grabs the bag with milk and water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Insects droned in the noon heat, and the water slipped musically over green-mossed stones. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

As he folded his page and slipped it into his bag, two boys in the back launched paper airplanes at the girls in the second row. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He had slipped up to his locker quietly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men on the Redwyne galleys had grown lax after so long, however, and they had slipped through the cordon smooth as black satin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Later that evening, out to dinner with Jonathan at a restaurant on Chapel Street, Ashima slips, asking, “Gogol, have you decided yet what your major will be?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Axel slips on his Crocs and follows the smell down the stairs to find another surprise. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Just like I planned it, when the auditorium went dark for Act III, Pink and I slipped through a door by the stage and tiptoed back where the rats were. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The space was too small to admit a grown man, so it was a half-grown boy who had slipped in and taken only one of the famous cups. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’ve grown extremely cautious, using code phrases all the time, but they let one little thing slip by them. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He ventured forwards, and suddenly slipped and fell down a hidden gap between the bales. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh, please, Mr. Kimberley,” begged Kit, as the children, one by one, slipped through the door and escaped. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They were the only birds which made a practice of slipping off height to land—except occasionally the oldest, gayest and most beautiful of all the conscious aeronauts, the raven. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor stood up straight and tried to control the quaver that slipped into his voice. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or slip my feet into the hollow casts of feet and lurch in like something from a mad scientist movie. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped back down into die cool dark and rode slowly downhill toward the silent empty country to the north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped into the chair across from her. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth’s mom comes up to talk to her, and I slip away. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Then he crawled into the sleeping bag his mother had sewn for him and slipped into unconsciousness. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed I felt his hold on me loosen, so I twisted my body in a swift movement and slipped away. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Hold it still,” said Farder Coram from behind her, and then he was kneeling to slip a piece of card under the mug. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped it under my shirt; but when I got upstairs, Charles’s head had rolled back against the wall where the headboard should have been and he was snoring. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She made only one bad slip, and she had tried to avoid that one. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So that night I feigned a flulike illness and locked myself in my room, then slipped out the window and climbed down a drainpipe to the ground. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Once, Tiny Cooper slipped a Happy Bunny book into my locker. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He slipped on the floor of the hallway, caught his balance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He lowered it to her belly and kissed her mouth again before quickly slipping his hand under her skirt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sarai told Lazlo some of the better gifts she knew from Great Ellen, and slipped in among them a girl who could make things grow and a boy who could bring rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After a while, the door opens and someone slips in. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Chips of oak went flying, until the northerner lost his feet and slipped, falling flat on his back with his shield on top of him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Back in her dressing room, she put on a slip. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She was finally asleep when I slipped out, the dark eye mask covering her face. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I simply slipped my papers into my brief case and left as though going downtown for a meeting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hurried down the boardwalk and then slipped into brackish waters, wading until they reached one of the old mansions that filled the area. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

At one point, I felt his hand slip against my arm, like he was trying to help me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like Frodo when he wore the One Ring, I had slipped back into the Twilight world, hidden from the Iranians around me by my inability to speak Farsi. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s a lot to remember. I’ll have to make it sound convincing, won’t I? What if I accidentally let something slip?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dany sighed with pleasure as she slipped into die waters of her pool. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Quickly Pippin took it in his fingers and knotted it again into a loose bracelet of two loops and slipped it over his hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I slipped behind a tall man, where I would be well concealed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If we did forget, we might slip up. Break The Rule. Give ourselves away.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Those with higher numbers shift impatiently in their seats as they wait for the man with the notebook to reappear and politely call out the number on their respective slips of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I walk down the hall, into the bedroom I used to share with Khalid, and slip my hand under the mattress for the journal. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Turn some lights on out here!” he yelled back to Alec as he slipped out of the cockpit—he’d dropped the flashlight at some point and the world was pitch-dark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Next moment he had sped up, dragging Hermione along with him; she slipped a little on the ice. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I bring one hand up to touch her hair, let my fingers slip to her shoulder. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was slipping away from her, she knew, but there was nothing that she could think of to say that would bring it back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I wrote Murray and Ready I wanted two men this morning. You got your work slips?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Know Star Wars stuff?” he answered, slipping the thing over my head. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

But it would not be easy for Johnny to slip over. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put them on, then she slipped out of bed and tip-toed over to the window. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the shadows slipping out of the dark, coming for me. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I'll be right back,” I whisper to Jamie, slipping out of my seat and finding one of the doors to the balcony. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered doubt, slips into your mind like a spy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Harry slipped the tiny bottle of golden liquid into his inner pocket, feeling an odd combination of delight at the furious looks on the Slytherins’ faces and guilt at the disappointed expression on Hermione’s. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Paula had the air of a real ideologue; she could, Ifemelu imagined, slip easily into anarchy, stand at the forefront of protests, defying the clubs of policemen and the taunts of unbelievers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The hooded mask kept slipping down over my eyes and I held my scythe straight out like a lance so I didn’t run face-first into something solid. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she chose her own books; sometimes Mom or Emma’s favorite librarian, Mrs. Quinn, slipped them into her hands saying, “What about this one?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was a large unlocked window at the back of the building that I could easily slip through. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You can tell from the little things he lets slip now and then.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And then she slipped through my window and soundlessly made her way back home. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been running wild with some other kids and had slipped and scratched both knees. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I folded the clippings and slipped them in my pocket. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

And it is usually so with governments—not a fact but a small slip of paper. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom asks, slipping Jordan into the tote bag. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He rolls the president on one side and carefully searches for a puncture wound, his fingers slipping along the skin, probing for a telltale oozing of blood. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She reached the square, and the horse stopped, and the woman in grey slipped off it easily and stood on the earth, facing them all, the living and the dead of them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He rests his knee on the mattress and leans over me, slipping the ice pack under my head. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Bessy had been sick for quite a while; she slipped in and out of dementia. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped it under the lens and turned the enlarger back on. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Rogers came out of the dining room and slipped halfway up the stairs. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Around the table, he arranged mattresses and cushions, so as many as twenty people could sit and slip their legs under. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped away, up the stairs, and motioned for Somkit and Pong to follow. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He slipped out of the closet, leaving dusty footprints across the carpet, and was scolded by Celia when she saw the state of his clothes and hair. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, slipping on a pair of boxers under the covers. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kino slipped his feet into his sandals and pulled the thongs up over his heels. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The game was still running through my mind, almost slipping into a real dream, when Moms came to the door. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But Herrera had already slipped one under Luke, wrenching his neck. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that she’d already slipped into the secret room behind the closet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip on the nylon, then pull on a stump sock. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Once the ink was dry, Jinny folded the letter in half and slipped it back into her cushion. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As they walked beneath the Wall, she slipped her arm through his. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the spring, he slipped the bits out of his horse’s mouth to let him drink, then turned to me. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fooling around isn’t new for us, and when Chris slipped his hand in my shorts, I didn’t think anything of it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When I reached back for another, both of them slipped from my hand. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And how many times my feet have slipped into and out of them. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Last night she’d slipped the bracelet over her bedpost before she went to sleep, the way she did every evening, but when she’d woken up this morning it had vanished. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I gave her a shy wave and slipped back into my chair. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

L. Roy picks up Ma’s trench coat and holds it out as she slips her arms into the sleeves. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She slipped another cigarette from her pack, lit it with the car lighter, pulled a drag and let her smoke out slow. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Naomi was about to slip out of her stall when two more women pushed through the door. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He drew, but his hand fell, and the arrow slipped to the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He spent the next six months under house arrest in South Africa before slipping out of the country and going first to Lusaka to see Oliver, and then to London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It climbed trees to find nests; it crept into holes to find the young; it slipped through windows to find cradles. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Just before she slipped into a fringe of ferns at the wood’s edge, she paused to glance at him over her shoulder. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I slip out of my shoes and pants, into the zoot. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like many things in Chicago, Katz’s death slipped from public memory, and everything returned to as it had been. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He fumbled with it for a second and then it slipped out of his hand and dropped to the floor. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wiped sweat from his forehead on his coat sleeve, slipped off the narrow black tie that hung open around his collar and put it in his pocket. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the dishes were done, Marly slipped away and walked to Harry’s place. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I slip inside and pull the door shut. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

His mind slips to last fall and a writing course at the local community college. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She looked down at it, and he slipped it off. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then his father was running along the icy bank and slipping slowly into the water. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

She remembered her descent into the darkness, her arrival on the banks of the River Styx, and her consciousness began to slip. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I could disappear with the sun; I could turn quickly sideways and slip into a different world. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strings holding them in place sometimes slipped outside the short sleeves of her well-pressed white shirts, and she had to turn her back to us in order to adjust them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She perched now on the stern of our boat, watching the sanctuary she’d created slip away, more lost with every oar stroke. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She let some interesting facts slip along the way, though. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put the legal pad on the step beside me and slipped my mom’s research proposal out of the backpack. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But I do slip the pearl into the pocket of my uniform. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then often around two o’clock he’d come home and tease and wrestle with her for a half hour and slip on back to work. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The way you had to stand above it so that you could slip yourself in legs first. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Most looked almost ordinary; their owners had clearly tried to make them as Muggle-like as possible, but had slipped up by adding chimneys, or bellpulls, or weather vanes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

We stepped carefully so’s not to slip as we settled the gear on board. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Harry slipped inside, bolted the door behind him, and pulled off the Invisibility Cloak, looking around. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t know that it was born of tales told years ago by a monk slipping into senility, or that it had been fed ever since by every source Lazlo could get his hands on. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The small boy who looked in the kettle-hat, and who dreamed of well-water which always slipped away from his lips, had cherished an ambition to do some ordinary miracle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tied the lariat rope around her neck and slipped off the bridle to let her graze. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rusty hinges cried as we dragged the doors open wide enough to slip through. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I could try to slip out the window and run for help, but who could I run to? Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But there are still thousands of slips," I wish I could whisper to him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Alfred went to the back to wash his hands while Lou filled out the deposit slip. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lem tried to slip ashore again, and sat out the rest of the storm in the brig. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra slipped out of the anorak, the leggings, and the boots and bundled them up as small as she could before shoving through the crowded corridors to her dormitory. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I reach behind my seat and slip on my helmet like everyone else. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A black rim of algae rings the toilet bowl where the water has slipped away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

At one point he slipped and scraped his knee, tearing his jeans. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It slipped out before I could stop it. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The last thing I wanted was to let this slip in front of my mother. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He fought the quiet hateful brain down and it slipped aside and went about its work. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped the disc into the black box, then sat at his desk to read. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She slipped into her Saab and drove out of there a little too fast. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Harry’s numb hands slipped on the broom handle and his Nimbus dropped a few feet. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Bigger slipped behind the steering wheel again, glad to have room at last for his arms and legs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hesitate a second longer before slipping into the embrace of night. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was of a mind to slip them a note, like a captivated spy girl in the movies: “Help! Get me out of here!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she certainly didn’t slip over to the banana grove to meet him. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

With a twist of his wrist he slips a hood over her head and tightens the drawstrings with his teeth and free hand. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked slowly, holding on to her wrapper that seemed so loose it would slip off her waist any minute. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She sat up straight, like someone had slipped a yardstick down the back of her bright red business suit. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mole pulled backward, ducking down his head to slip his collar. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Madge finally hears my silence and slips into a seat and stares out the window. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Craig had a life, and I managed at least partially to slip into it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We rummaged around those shops, and in all honesty, after the first few minutes, I think Judy Bridgewater had more or less slipped from our minds. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always sleeping when we slipped quietly out of the room. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jaggers was querulous and angry with me for having “let it slip through my fingers,” and said we must memorialise by and by, and try at all events for some of it. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

We slipped inside and he locked the door behind us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Once he had slipped in and set up his stand no arguments could make him budge. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Ned shook his head but Jinx slipped noiselessly out of the water. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We slip off our sandals, walk close to the water’s edge, and sink our toes into the cooling sand. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I recall, earlier today, watching a slip of paper fall outside the shoe store. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

His hand slips down to the back of my thigh and he grips it, hard. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly and quietly, I slipped into her bedroom. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The car slipped off the muddy road and got stuck, forcing the prisoners to flee on foot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Yes. The police thought he slipped into the water and drowned, but there was a bruise on his neck.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“A devilish trick,” said Mr. Benedict, “and a necessary one. You see, only a child’s thoughts can be slipped into the mind so secretly. For some reason, they go unnoticed.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled me to my feet and started by slipping the sweater over my head and edging down my jeans. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands shake as he folds the leaflet, slips it into his pocket. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pontellier had prepared for bed, but he slipped on an extra garment He opened a bottle of wine, of which he kept a small and select supply in a buffet of his own. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach dropped as I slipped back in my seat, lips trembling. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Will, watching the shadows out of the corner of his eye, saw them slip ahead, leaping over the ferns to disappear into the bushes farther down. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I slipped through the entrance and pulled the door carefully closed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Roy’s hold began to slip, so he pitched forward, exerting his full weight upon the boy’s midsection. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“But you think this is something that”—my mother holds up the folded slip of paper—“Mrs. Kelly can help us with.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she had come into the woods and slipped into the life she was supposed to have had, if no one had wanted to give her up. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

If I cried a river, maybe I could swim away, or slip under the water to freedom. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped my shirt off and held it over my face. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You know how it goes. It somehow went from you slipping folks candy in the halls to you slipping folks weed in the halls.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I slip my hand under her chin and hold her still as I kiss her back. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

On the next switch, he let his hand slip a bit before clasping tightly. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She saw Aziza lifted, saw her sandals slip off, her tiny feet kicking. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s too busy celebrating or doing interviews to see them slip out the back door. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I closed my eyes and slipped away into quiet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Bigwig had slipped away, Hazel said to Silver, “Have you any idea how far the Wide Patrols go out? Are we inside their range yet?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to me, Liam’s foot slipped against the sallow dust collected on the floor. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I pop it open and slip off my backpack. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He took it from her and slipped it onto the ring finger of her left hand. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had been identified as a stranger and felt his sense of belonging slipping away. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The crowd started cheering and clapping even before Willie slipped gracefully through the ropes into the ring, and sat down on a three-legged stool. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ladd Devine stapled the two notes and the two envelopes they had come in together, slipped them into a manila folder, and filed them under E for “El” in his personal correspondence file. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard bristled; his fingers felt stiff and he feared his fork would slip from his grasp and this insufferable man would know how he felt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The biting got so bad I had to slip into the water and stay there for a bit, much as I hated being in the ocean in the dark. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Love you” can slip up on you, sure, but it doesn’t make an in-your-face slam dunk. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she’d slip from the bed while he slept and would cross to the door and go out alone into the night. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had slipped naira notes to all the salon workers, to the security men outside, to the policemen at the road junction. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of my usual seat up front, I slip in the back row, angry that Elizabeth wouldn’t even say hello. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His knapsack slipped off, but he didn’t stop. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a good girl,” she said to me once as I sat near her bed stitching at a slip cover. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Careful not to spill a drop of his Polyjuice Potion, Harry slipped into the middle stall. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She darted left, vaulted a low wall, leapt across a small canal, and slipped through an unlocked door into some dusty storeroom. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then I slipped back out and motioned for Maribel to follow me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I’d been trying to tear open a seam in a leather jacket last night and I’d tugged a little too hard; the seam ripper slipped and sliced open the back of my left hand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I slipped out of the kitchen before Mom could stick a paintbrush in my hand. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

As they did, the adrenaline that had taken over for Luke started to slip away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She set her suitcase on the bed and slipped off her shoes. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked down the aisle to introduce myself to the teacher and get my slip signed, I was watching him surreptitiously. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Run!” commanded Mrs. Arable, taking the pig from Fern and slipping a doughnut into her hand. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

They tried to run, only to slip and fall. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I untied my frayed shoestrings—I had to cut them, too—and slipped my sneakers off, tucking them under the bench. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Luma kicked off the black Puma soccer shoes she wore each day to practice and offered them to the boy, who stepped out of his sandals and slipped the shoes on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Neither moved as Johnny slipped quietly past them and entered the inner office. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you, every time he got close to letting something slip, he started banging his head against the wall.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, sir,” Reynie said, his hopefulness slipping into dejection. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We slip back into the house and I immediately locate the little trash bin near the foyer. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kenyon handed us a slip of paper with the names of three books to look up in the card catalogue. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He kisses my cheek, holding his own cheek there for just a moment, and then he slips under the fence, waving a hand. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I can’t stand to see life slipping away from him like this. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Just as the bell rings, Roger ducks into the door and slips into his seat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Kino deftly slipped his knife into the edge of the shell. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another bar ran along the length of the Berg’s lower edge, with just enough space for Mark to slip his arm through it. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ralph slipped through the window into a bucket seat, made sure his tail was safely inside, grasped the wheel, took a deep breath, and went pb-pb-b-b. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Birkway opened a cupboard, pulled out the journals, slipped the yellow paper over the cover of one and read: This is what I like about Jane. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My heart’s racing now, and I slip inside a row of com. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third man scrabbled away like a crab, slipped into the pool, and then he began to climb frantically, to climb up the cliff where the water penciled down. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nurse bustles in with a bag of blood, and before the door shuts behind her, I slip through it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was careful to have a good look around all the trees and high up in the sky before I slipped under the fence. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She regards it carefully before slipping it into her bag, as though she is not entirely sure it is real. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just as he slipped into sleep, a rooster crowed. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He slips between the tables and the people like he’s more liquid than solid, and I stumble after him, muttering apologies as I push people aside. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the director’s wife slips on ice in the Place des Vosges and breaks her wrist in two places, the museum’s gossip machine explodes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I slip it over my head, and it weighs heavy on my chest. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She walked to me, slipped a finger under one of my spaghetti straps and snapped it. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I darted from car to car, but she kept slipping all over the place. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

An hour of monologue, a poem, a comment, and then without even acknowledging the fact that Montag was a fireman, Faber with a certain trembling, wrote his address on a slip of paper. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if a gator got him, or he slipped and fell and hit his head? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Don’t keep them waiting,” he said, slipping past me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He thought of her slipping them on her feet. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I slipped into the little office, Beau coming with me but looking up at them and grinning as he passed, tail slapping back and forth. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Before landing she slips into the bathroom and changes, miraculously in that minuscule space, into a fresh sari. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s being handed everything you’ve ever longed for, only for it to slip through your fingers. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I start for the back door, but I lose my footing and slip on the sudsy water I dripped all over the floor when I hugged my mom. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Toby pressed the slip of paper to his forehead and walked three times around the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So. Let us begin. Simple procedure. Come up one at a time. Reach into this bag. Take one slip of paper. Read it out loud.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello,” she says low, slipping off her shoes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the everyday Anne slipped away and the second Anne took her place. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I slipped the papers into the cigar box and shoved it back into the floor space. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If he let it slip that he’d served in Vietnam, criticism was sharp. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

His glasses have slipped to the bridge of his nose again. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was so much easier to slip my foot in and out of flats. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He slips his phone back into his jacket pocket. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Winston examined the four slips of paper which he had unrolled. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I slip my hand into my back pocket and take out my phone. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“DuShawn is DuShawn, okay? The only way he knows to get the message across to Addie that he likes her is to nail her with spitballs and slip whoopee cushions under her butt.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The open bank slipped by and now the trees towered on both sides. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came over and slipped a tin of corned beef into her basket and then hurried away as if he had done nothing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hanako held tightly to the food basket, then reluctantly let it slip to the floor in front of her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, I slipped out of the manor to the greenhouse near the menagerie. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten typed-up poems lay beneath a printed rejection slip from Criterion magazine, initialed by Mr. Eliot himself. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I gripped the sides of the buggy with all the strength I had, ready to wrench free and leap if the buggy slipped deeper into the river. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I was sure that, if I took it into my head to slip off into the dark woods, he would know at once. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He was about medium height, medium build, reddish hair. I slipped on the steps and he caught my arm.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On opposite pages, she attached blue paper frames with beeswax and slipped in the corresponding watercolor sketches. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I put away the breakfast tray and rinsed out the milk saucer before slipping into the library to get a book. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The days until the first task seemed to slip by as though someone had fixed the clocks to work at double speed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

"That was the self-same preparation of baneberries he slipped into my dish of eels," and Letitia thought she heard the wind howling down from the mountain crags. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Redd said as they slipped around a corner through the shadows. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Without answering, Dandelion slipped along to another crack, gathered himself a moment and then broke cover, running across the yard to the opposite shed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I especially enjoy it when someone slips on a banana peel. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

"I feel sorry for them," whispered Ploy, slipping her fingers into Nok's hand. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She will be swayed, if not by my logic, then by the sheer fact that already the disastrous effects of her exile can be seen: Shadowshapers slip away daily. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. Cobb sometimes subbed for their Social Studies teacher, and he always managed to slip in a story about the Vietnam War, even when their class unit was on ancient civilizations. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“So,” said Dumbledore, slipping off the desk to sit on the floor with Harry, “you, like hundreds before you, have discovered the delights of the Mirror of Erised.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The daily small army of runners each got ten percent of the money they turned in, along with the bet slips, to their controllers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped past her with a whispered “Thanks!” and set off through the castle. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Kendra folded the letter and slipped it hack into the envelope, trying to situate it as she had found it. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I slipped out of my clothes and listened to the rain until I fell asleep. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Gently, she slips the note out from under my hand. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I was trying to come up with a theory on what those two found so frigging funny when Faith slipped into their circle. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

After Mom thought about it she said, “Grandma was probably so wired she slipped right down into the sewer and was washed away for good.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped out of the apartment, leaving the door ajar so it would seem the dog had worked it open. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I leant up, slipped Miss Hilly’s piece a paper out from under Miss Skeeter’s notebook. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Rose slipped into her old accent, picked up from years with the elderly before she’d come to us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

While she rests, I slip my mirror from inside my dress. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The gate buzzed open, and Seven pushed it and slipped onto the front lawn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Met Bong,” I wheeze out the words, “may I have a permission slip to go to the infirmary? My stomach hurts very much.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two faded slips of paper, both about someone traveling to a place called St. Ives. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The seams of the cushions were frayed and slipping apart. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Liberty disappears and Max slips the shirt over the one she's already wearing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

An attacker slipped around the side—a man with a mustache—and Lazlo cut him in half with a swing, only to watch the halves of him re-form like something from a nightmare. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“This ain’t our key,” he growled, then slipped it into his own pocket. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She slipped silently into their ranks, scanning the shadows near the Exchange for signs of Black Tip spies. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing left that I can slip up to the attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She takes the slip and quickly reads it. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book slipped to the floor and the world went up in flames. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On the playground he could hold on for a long time, but when his grip finally tired, his fingers slipped quickly and he fell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe he slipped in past the desk in Tomes.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As soon as the bus stopped, I made my way forward and slipped a Year-of-the-Souls penny into Noah's hand. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We slip our backpacks on and hurry out the door before dissolving into full-fledged laughter. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She felt her wetness slipping on his skin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And all that’s in the dressers are underwear, slips, and newspaper clippings.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The door creaked open and the cat slipped between the doorpost and the door and padded across the room, then up on the windowsill. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

From there it would be easy for them—these little stones, the fallen leaves and the whipped branches, the scuffed places where a foot had slipped. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d tried ribbons and string, but they always slipped out of her hair. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He tried to rise, but the stones slipped from under him and he stumbled backward. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I hold my breath and slip around the doorjamb into the outer corridor. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As he stepped down he slipped it on his finger, and he was never seen by any hobbit in Hobbiton again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her hair is always in a bun, and her glasses are always slipping down her nose; her clothes always remind me of a curtain or a sofa. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sarai’s fingertips did, at some point in the heedless flow of dream time, find themselves slipping under the hem of Lazlo’s shirt to play ever so lightly over the bare skin of his waist. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ben bends over to pick up the thin librex, and it slips through his fingers. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Did she hear the last gasp of the old man as he slipped under the wheels of a cart several kilometers back? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Anybody wishing to submit themselves as champion must write their name and school clearly upon a slip of parchment and drop it into the goblet,” said Dumbledore. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Amber and I slip into our own bubble. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then a series of rollers pound against my back as I slip over them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She brings us fizzy drinks from the staff refrigerator as a treat and slips out of her shoes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Of course, Miss Katherine,” I say, slipping into the characteristic speech patterns of an uneducated serving girl. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Percy caught a glimpse of it before Hazel slipped it into her pocket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Like so many, they had slipped, in a few short years, from a comfortable, secure middle-class existence to one in which every dime seemed harder to come by than the one before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Shirley slipped past and continued on, only to find the way blocked again on the second landing. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But Mexico. We could slip in, no papers. Lay low. I’ve got a plan to get there, too. I’ll sign on as a porter. And I’m learning Spanish.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After picking up additional passengers, the train slipped into a tunnel that angled downward. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They snapped in the breeze as the ship cast off and slipped away from the dock. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bran closed his eyes and slipped free of his skin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t wake him as I slip out of bed and head downstairs. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Invented—now that’s why I have no time. I’ve invented a little slot that lets a necktie slip around freely in a stiff collar.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This time his long pause slipped into pure silence. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slipped the newspaper clipping back into the envelope and stuck it between two books on her bookshelf. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He slipped up the run to the entrance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let the blade slip back into its sheath. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Afterward, he eased his arm out from under her head, slipped on his tunic, and went down to the garden. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She slipped in, found the rack of spares, grabbed two bungee jackets, and was out in less than a minute. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He slipped the knife into its sheath in the inside pocket of his long coat, and he stepped out into the street. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

If I had my wits about me, I would have slipped out and taken off with the truck the moment I realized there was no water in the bug-out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Finally Jennet covered the moaning woman with her cloak, and, whispering “I can do no more. This baby will not come,” slipped from the room. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shoe slipped on something soft, and she wheeled around and gave me an accusing look. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He kissed me, slipped his hand into the waistband of my jeans. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” I say and head on down the ledge, my shoes slipping and sliding under me. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I gathered my lunch and slipped out of the room. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard believed that his last chance for a match race had probably slipped away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She in the living room and she done pull a chair next to the wall vent, so what’s left a the air-condition blowing up her slip. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I slipped my watch off in the darkness. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I waited until then to slip away, we’d have less than thirty minutes to run the dinghy back to Rado’s dock, grab our bikes, and race home. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Later, Rosita collects our empty glasses, slipping her arms between our piles of books and papers, unnoticed, well practiced at being invisible. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s so easy to talk to, sometimes I let things slip before I even realize my mouth is open. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z