slip away

verb

slipped away; slipping away; slips away

1

: 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.

2

: 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

And desperate enough to understand, after letting two games slip away against the Atlanta Hawks in the first round, that easing off the gas for even a moment can get a season killed in the playoffs. —Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 11 May 2026

Upside-down and without food and water, her life was slipping away. —Tina Sturdevant, New York Times, 10 May 2026

They'd be heralded not by rippling explosions or flash frozen corpses floating against a tapestry of stars, but instead by oxygen, almost imperceptibly slipping away or radiation slowly accumulating in our cells over years. —Alan Bradley, Space.com, 8 May 2026

There have been many of those types of games this year, the winnable ones that for one reason or another — often the bullpen — have slipped away. —Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 8 May 2026

Rhymes for slip away

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