His words slipped past me like the sound of a clock or an ocean.

Not until we are well away at sea, where there is no chance that a word will slip.

She turned back to him, and the words slipped quietly down her throat.

The word slipped from her lips on a trembling breath.

Once I recognize them, the words slip far less easily from me.

The last word slipped from her lips before she could stop it.

But sometimes a word slipped through, or somebody cried out in his sleep.

They moved together in the quiet of the morning and words slipped into sighs.

She tried to answer him, but no words could slip past the lump at her throat.

A wrong word, even one, and the truth would slip away from him.