slip away

phrasal verb

slipped away; slipping away; slips away

: to pass out of existence

The afternoon quietly slipped away.

They saw their four-run lead slip away.

Their grandmother slipped away in her sleep last night.

: to leave a place without being noticed

They slipped away from the party right after dinner.

Examples of slip away in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This, coupled with recent pushback against legislation like NEM 3.0 from both politicians and environmental groups, is an encouraging sign that Americans aren’t willing to stand by and let solar slip away. —

Chris Hopper, Fortune, 20 May 2024 In that matchup, the Terps let a 7-2 advantage at halftime slip away, and Florida used that comeback to begin its current 20-game run after a 0-2 start. —

Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024 Less than a week after being part of the Dodgers’ contingent that met with Ohtani at Dodger Stadium, his golf game imploded at the thought of the team’s top offseason target slipping away. —

Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2024 For the second time in four days, the Marlins saw an early lead slip away after turning the game over to their bullpen and couldn’t fully recover. —

Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2024 Meandering elsewhere, the feline can move a box and discover hole and slip away beneath a fence. —

Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 21 Mar. 2024 The University of Arkansas women's basketball team let a 14-point second-half lead slip away and dropped a critical NCAA Tournament bubble matchup in a 73-67 loss to Texas A&M on Thursday night at Reed Arena in College Station, Texas. —

Ethan Westerman, arkansasonline.com, 23 Feb. 2024 As humans continue to burn fossil fuels and pump increasing amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, the goal of holding global warming to a relatively safe level, 1.5 degrees Celsius compared with preindustrial times, is slipping away. —

Christopher Flavelle Ian C. Bates, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2024 Those four suspects slipped away before the indictment was filed in 2016. —

Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024

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