And which would she have preferred, to have slipped inexorably into the blameless future, or to slide back into the sinful past?

Somewhere inside it, the Belladonna was slowly but inexorably slipping into the stormy maw of the phenomenon.

In economic terms Ukraine will slip inexorably and helplessly into the fold of Greater Russia.

"There comes a time when you have to take a stand because the games inexorably slip away," he said.

The beautiful dream that was Doona was inexorably slipping away from his grasp, deny it though he might.

In the ensuing months, however, the economy and the society slipped inexorably toward disaster.

Janeway cursed silently as Voyager slipped inexorably toward the center of the singularity.

He felt time slipping inexorably from him.

Without, with a rouble paycheck or, worse still, a rouble pension, life is slipping inexorably down the tubes.

Her heart sank as she looked at it, a living reminder that her time was inexorably slipping away.