Slip-away meaning

To leave a place, or a meeting, without being noticed.

I'm going to try to slip away from work early, if I can.

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(of time) To pass quickly, almost unnoticed.

The months slipped away and became years.

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(of an advantage) To disappear.

When Liverpool scored a third goal, their hopes of winning slipped away forever.

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To die.

He slipped away quietly in his sleep.

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Slip-away Sentence Examples

  • We all are, as if we let him slip away.

  • A nomadic army of horse archers might slip away to turn up somewhere else.

  • If the egg is not fertilized, however, resultant hormonal changes cause the endometrium to slip away and menstruation begins.

  • I sit alone on the grassy slope soothed by the sound of lifeless years flowing free and watch a thousand seasons slip away.

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