My mother, not yet a bride when it all began, slipped into senility.

Her mother had slipped out of the kitchen like a ghost.

It was a relief when he and my mother slipped away to the basement.

The worst threat was that her mother would slip and become pregnant.

Caroline would take the good days as they came, fight the disappointment when her mother slipped away.

The vice president clearly took to heart a note his mother slipped to him before a 1988 debate: "Smile, relax, attack."

Her mother slipped a gloved hand under the crook of his arm.

A few months later both her mother and father slipped and broke their legs.

She had been kind the other night, when his mother had slipped into the past.

Back at the inn her mother had slipped over the edge into a completely delusional state.