How to Use sales slip in a Sentence

sales slip

noun

• The Detroit car-component maker swung to a loss in the fourth quarter as sales slipped.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• However, even the top three have seen sales slip as a host of craft beers become more popular.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2018
• Whole Foods began to lower its prices in 2015 as its sales slipped, but the promotions did little to woo back customers.
  — Laura Stevens, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2017
• Retail sales slipped in the first two months of the year as consumers pulled back after heavy spending during the winter holidays.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fox News, 16 Apr. 2018
• With the Hardtop already one of the older members of its segment, and Mini sales slipping around the world, that isn’t good news for the brand’s entry-level model.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2020
• One of the weakest elements of the retail report was food services and drinking places, where sales slipped 1.8% from a month earlier.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2018
• Three weeks after the launch, weekly HomePod sales slipped to about 4 percent of the smart speaker category on average, the market research firm says.
  — Mark Gurman, Houston Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• Apple also revealed in a first fiscal quarter earnings release earlier this month that iPhone sales slipped 1% year over year.
  — Don Reisinger, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2018
• Trading at the unit, headed by Marcus Schenck and Garth Ritchie, slumped 27 percent in the fourth quarter, while fees from advising on deals and arranging debt and equity sales slipped 3 percent.
  — Bloomberg.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Precision Castparts watched its sales slip in the first quarter across all of its major markets, Berkshire said Saturday in its earnings report.
  — Dallas News, 4 May 2020
• Boots of this type are no longer manufactured, and the museum intends never to part with these, whether the original owner produces the sales slip and notarized photographs of himself wearing the boots or not.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2018
• Banana Republic saw sales slip 3% from a year earlier by that measure, and even mighty Old Navy – the family-friendly chain that has been the company’s life raft –stumbled, notching a 1% comparable-sales drop.
  — Washington Post, 2 June 2019
• And apparel and accessory store sales slipped 1.7% after gaining 2.2%.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2018
• Retail sales slipped in January, but some economists say the figures could pick up, especially with many workers starting to take home larger paychecks following the U.S. tax overhaul.
  — Akane Otani, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2018
• But Samsung’s higher prices didn’t deliver, as flagship Galaxy S9 sales slipped and unimpressed consumers turned to less expensive devices from Android rivals.
  — Tripp Mickle, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2018
• Shares of home builders such as PulteGroup and Lennar also struggled for traction after data showed home sales slipping in the second quarter, even as the broader economy continued expanding.
  — Ben St. Clair, WSJ, 27 July 2018
• Sales of electric vehicles are growing rapidly, up 26 percent last year even as overall vehicle sales slipped 1.8 percent, and some see a looming tipping point where demand will accelerate even more.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Overall retail sales slipped by 0.1%, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday, versus the gain of 0.3% economists expected.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
• Even with global smartphone sales slipping, Qualcomm has expanded from selling modems and processors in phones to other parts, including the antennas and power modulators.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2019
• This year the Hamptons experienced its slowest market conditions since the financial crisis, with sales slipping at the high end and inventory rising, according to a report from Douglas Elliman.
  — Anna Bahney, CNN, 5 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024