slippery

"We applied it liberally to the leg just to try and get it as slippery as possible to help it to come out. It made all the difference."

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

When children’s mental health and cognitive development are at risk, implying that screens can be good in some circumstances is a slippery slope toward a worse future.

From Salon ● Jun. 21, 2026

She writes equations on the board to explain these findings, equations that begin to glow as the production moves from the realm of pure science to the more slippery domain of art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

Hyaline cartilage is smooth and slippery, allowing joints such as the knees, hips, shoulders, and ankles to move freely.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

Sheets of rain come down, making the ground slippery.

From "A Soft Place to Land" by Janae Marks

Keep these traits in check the next time you find yourself in a horror film scenario: curiosity—the genre’s original sin—and dissatisfaction, its slipperier cousin.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2025

The iPhone SE is slightly taller, wider, and heavier than the Mini — not to mention slipperier with its rounded corners.

From The Verge ● Sep. 8, 2022

Lines are abundant, but slipperier, in Linda Cafritz’s paintings.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2021

He struggled to find consistent velocity with his pitches and quality grip with the MLB baseball, which had smaller seams and a slipperier cover.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2021

Faster, slipperier, she was sliding through the woods and then down to the lakeshore.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

The new method proved exceptionally effective, as the team created the slipperiest liquid surface in the world.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2023

As he explains in his memoir, Ronnie was “a conman, fantasist, occasional jailbird, and my father. . . . Ronnie’s life was spent walking on the thinnest, slipperiest ice you can imagine.”

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2020

She is the slipperiest performer working in country music’s top tier, doing just enough to stay there, and even more to remind you how little she thinks of its limitations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2019

East End Underworld by Raphael Samuel Published in 1981, this is the story of Arthur Harding, who was born in 1896 and became known as “the slipperiest character in Brick Lane”.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2019

Salmon are slippery fish, and Loki was the slipperiest of salmon; he wriggled and tried to slip through Thor’s fingers, but Thor simply gripped the fish harder and squeezed it tightly, down by the tail.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman