"slip" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

slip verbo

slip + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 5
slip off one's shoes • slip off one's shoulders • slip off one's skins • slip down one's cheeks • slip off one's jacket
verbo + slip
Kolokacji: 14
keep slipping • manage to slip • begin to slip • try to slip • let slip • ...
slip + preposición
Kolokacji: 51
slip into • slip out • slip off • slip through • slip down • slip under • slip behind • slip past • slip up • ...
slip + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 91
slip away • slip quietly • slip inside • slip easily • quickly slip • slip further • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 25
(1) away, forth, unconsciously
Kolokacji: 3
(3) inside, secretly, outside
Kolokacji: 3
(4) easily, comfortably, well
Kolokacji: 3
(10) forward, ahead
Kolokacji: 2
(11) simply, merely
Kolokacji: 2
(12) finally, eventually
Kolokacji: 2
(13) backward, backwards
Kolokacji: 2
1. slip backward = pośliźnij się do tyłu slip backward
2. slip backwards = pośliźnij się do tyłu slip backwards
  • Due to a drop in sponsorship money the team slipped backwards.
  • It was now a constant battle just to hold balance, just to keep from slipping backwards.
  • "I figured this was the way to insure the institution's growth and not slip backwards," she said.
  • "Today was a day that we slipped backwards," said one top Democratic aide.
  • The car, with the children inside, slipped backwards into the Seine.
  • Like a stone we slipped backwards towards the ocean bed which here lay 5,000 metres below.
  • "If anything, I'm afraid we are slipping backwards," a senior American official here said today.
  • Scents, more than anything else, are evocative of memory; everything slipped backwards in time.
  • How did a Labour government let inequality slip backwards in those golden years?
  • However, the remaining races saw the team slipping backwards and often struggling to score points.
(14) badly, inexorably, dangerously
Kolokacji: 3
(15) suddenly, gradually
Kolokacji: 2
(16) occasionally, frequently
Kolokacji: 2
(18) aside, apart
Kolokacji: 2
(20) noiselessly, soundlessly
Kolokacji: 2
(21) downward, upward
Kolokacji: 2
(22) unobtrusively, imperceptibly
Kolokacji: 2
(23) gracefully, awkwardly
Kolokacji: 2
(24) stealthily, surreptitiously
Kolokacji: 2
(25) upstairs, downstairs
Kolokacji: 2

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