How to Use sales slip in a Sentence

sales slip

noun
  • However, even the top three have seen sales slip as a host of craft beers become more popular.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2018
  • The Detroit car-component maker swung to a loss in the fourth quarter as sales slipped.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
  • That means staple pieces will be on the sales slips, while more experimental items will have a tougher time at retail.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • But while alcohol sales slip, sales of their alcohol-free counterparts are soaring.
    — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 5 June 2022
  • 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
  • Although the first two months of the year saw sales slip, purchases jumped 46% in March, the company said.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2024
  • But some items that use the form of invitations are actually ticket sales slips, and may be ignored by those not planning to buy.
    — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The pantry item remains the leader within the boxed category, but has seen its sales slip and market share sharply decline in recent years.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 2 Apr. 2026
  • At Sinclair, the local media segment saw ad sales slip 6% to $322 million.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • But since then, the shopping center — like many other regional malls — has lost department stores and has seen sales slip with the growth of online retailing.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Other hardware and smartphone companies have seen sales slip this year as consumers reduce spending in the face of high inflation and other economic challenges.
    — Talal Ansari, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Diageo’s peers share some of its struggles—for instance, Remy Cointreau, the cognac maker, saw its quarterly sales slip last week.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 30 July 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If same-store sales slip by 10 percent, EBITDA would fall below $200 million.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • September’s data point for fashion specialty stores were better than August, which saw apparel sales slip for the month, and even July, when sales for the channel were essentially flat.
    — Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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