Slip-away Definition

Slip-away Sentence Examples

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

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

• Ney had allowed the valuable hours to slip away when he could have stormed Quatre Bras with ease and ensured co operation with his master.

• The last chance of bringing about a decisive French success was thus allowed to slip away.

• His cavalry gained contact before noon with Thielemann's corps, which was resting at Gembloux, but the enemy was allowed to slip away and contact was lost for want of a serious effort to keep it.