SLID in a Sentence

Learn SLID from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

75 example sentences for SLID, such as:

1. His arm slid behind her shoulders.
2. He slid safely into the third base.
3. The bolt slid easily into the groove.
4. On high the great white clouds slid swiftly.
5. The gate slid opened at the push of a button.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLID
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Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  Cautiously he slid his hand palm-downward along the table till his finger-tips touched the end of the stuff.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  Her hand, with palm clammy with perspiration, slid into his.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The carriage slipped and slid down the muddy road and Scarlett leaned back on the cushions and smiled.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  He had good pilots and paid them well, and they slid out of Charleston and Wilmington on dark nights, bearing cotton for Nassau, England and Canada.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  His drawl was caressing and his hands slid up her bare arms, warm strong hands.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  Reluctantly he slid out of his hiding place, a giant ragged figure, bare-footed, clad in denim breeches and a blue Union uniform jacket that was far too short and tight for his big frame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  As the full impact of the meaning smote her, Melanie became so embarrassed that she fumbled with the bandage until it slid off the wound entirely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  His lips slid down to her throat and finally he pressed them against the taffeta over her breast, so hard and so long that his breath burnt to her skin.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
9  Aunt Pitty, who had been a petrified witness to the whole scene, suddenly slid to the floor in what was one of the few real fainting spells she had ever had.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
10  His arm slid behind her shoulders.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  Sometimes she one-stepped demurely; sometimes, in dread of life's slipping past, she turned into a bacchanal, her tender eyes excited, her throat tense, as she slid down the room.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  In a manner of more than sacerdotal reverence he unlaced her boots, tucked her skirt about her ankles, slid on the slippers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
13  Beneath an inch of water was a layer of ice, so that as they wavered with their suit-cases they slid and almost fell.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
14  Upon this, Daggoo, with either hand upon the gunwale to steady his way, swiftly slid aft, and then erecting himself volunteered his lofty shoulders for a pedestal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
15  In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising higher and higher, and disentangling itself from the azure, at last gleamed before our prow like a snow-slide, new slid from the hills.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.
Example Sentence:
1  He slid safely into the third base.
2  On high the great white clouds slid swiftly.
3  The bolt slid easily into the groove.
4  The entire pile shifted and slid, thumping onto the floor.
5  The glasses slid off the table onto the floor.
6  Murphy gradually slid into a pattern of drug abuse.
7  The gate slid opened at the push of a button.
8  We laid low and kept still, and never shoved out till nearly ten o'clock; then we slid by, pretty wide away from the town, and didn't hoist our lantern till we was clear out of sight of it.
9  Reacher lifted the envelope's flap and slid the two photographs out, facedown.
10  We slid by, pretty wide away from the town, and didn't hoist our lantern till we was clear out of sight of it.
11  His hand slid from the back of her neck to circle the base of her throat, and her pulse leaped as her breasts tightened in sensual hunger.
12  She slid the sheath from the short sword and swiped toward him.