She felt very tired and was about to gratefully slip away into sleep when she heard a strange thumping sound approaching from overhead.

She went back down to him, and he slipped gratefully back into the water.

Roderick, Bishop de Clare, slipped gratefully into the cab at the top of the rank and murmured the address.

The houri made no move to stop him, and he gratefully slipped into his clothes, simultaneously slithering to the far end of the couch.

Sucking in breath through trembling jaws, Steve slipped gratefully between his furs.

Unfortunately, he isn't in modern Ethiopia anymore; he's slipping gratefully away from precise time and place.

Spring is the season when Boston, which is still a pedestrian's city, slips gratefully from galoshes to running shoes.

Jo slipped gratefully out of the bunk, glanced toward the shower stall.

She found a chair and slipped into it gratefully.

He handed me my shades, which I gratefully slipped back on.