How to Use slippery slope in a Sentence

slippery slope

noun

• 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
• Rhaenyra Targaryen: 6 points The business of war is a slippery slope and Rhaenyra is going wheeeeeee all the way down it.
  — Brian Grubb, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2024
• 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
• What could happen next is the very definition of a slippery slope for Telegram’s billion users.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024