How to Use slippery slope in a Sentence

slippery slope

noun
Definition of slippery slopenext
  • His behavior will lead him down a slippery slope to ruin.
  • And that’s a valid choice, of course, but a slippery slope.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This bill is a slippery slope to all kinds of problems.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 4 Apr. 2024
  • And that could prove to be a slippery slope, Freedom House warns.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 14 Oct. 2020
  • But that was a slippery slope to nowhere good, and Cere didn't have to go there ever again.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The graph above shows the slippery slope of leaders who are poor role models.
    — Joseph Folkman, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Even in the West, this quest can, in the name of harmony, become a slippery slope.
    — The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
  • This, too, is part of the slippery slope of getting in bed with the gambling aspect.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 June 2018
  • The greater fear by those who know better is how far will this slippery slope go?
    — Annika Erikson, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Has that been a slippery slope in terms of offers coming in?
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The idea of stripping rights from the mentally ill is a very slippery slope.
    — Peter Mandel, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2018
  • But in this case the really bad things are a tippy-toe down the slippery slope.
    — F.h. Buckley, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • There are bound to be slippery slopes to any form of such censorship.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019
  • Now, some of this is a slippery slope of logic based off of one massive goal in the season.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Fast forward to this year, and Britt's 2017 season is a on slippery slope down Bowe lane.
    — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • After that, a large group of teens walked up the hill and began smashing the produce on the road to ride sleds down the slippery slope.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Still, Measure 16 did mark the beginning of an avalanche down the slippery slope.
    — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 19 Nov. 2019
  • More than 100 Dutch lawyers have warned that the lack of transparency around the hacks could create a slippery slope.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Yet Google’s whole approach feels like a slippery slope.
    — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The governor’s allies view the ask as a slippery slope.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2020
  • There is a belief that such offers are a slippery slope—well, maybe.
    — Ilia Kiselevich, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • That’s a slippery slope…we’re actors, we are supposed to act.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • And that becomes really a slippery slope that leads to a very dark place.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • But Parler, and the people who join it, might find themselves on a slippery slope, too.
    — Donie O'Sullivan By Gabe Ramirez, CNN, 3 Dec. 2020
  • And while such insurance charges are legal, some see the move as a slippery slope.
    — Abigail Abrams, Time, 27 Aug. 2021
  • So yes, a slippery slope, unlike in the NHL, where games have been postponed when there is a breakout on a team.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Dec. 2021
  • And thus the slippery slope was oiled by the best intentions, and down everyone slid.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • Making movies about things that are ripped from headlines is a slippery slope.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
  • This seemed a slippery slope; the core of Chineseness might fade away.
    — Perry Link, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
  • Take Care of Your Containers Heat and containers can be a slippery slope, especially for those of us who love terracotta.
    — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 10 July 2024

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