Russa shook her head as she skirted a patch of mossy grass, still wet and slippery with morning dew.

There was no accumulation of snow so far, but the pavement was glistening and my tires tended to sing every time I hit a slippery patch.

The pace was too swift for Prasamaccus, despite the fist that kept prodding his back, and on a slippery patch where the path rose he fell.

In New York, when anything - a sudden braking, a slippery patch - causes a round wheel to skid on a straight rail, the roundness of the wheel starts to straighten out in places.

As the hive litters passed a slippery patch, one exhausted litterbearer stumbled.

Zack helped Carlos past a slippery patch.

Eragon squatted on a slippery patch of wood and hooked his fingers through a crevice in the trunk of the tree in order to keep himself from toppling over.

Who wants to take responsibility for wrecking Roberto Baggio's $13 million knees on some slippery patch of sod in some dismal domed stadium?

Careers progressed square by square and there were slippery patches too.

A slippery patch of trail put paid to the conversation at that point, but not to my speculations.