How to Use slippery slope in a Sentence

slippery slope

noun
  • His behavior will lead him down a slippery slope to ruin.
  • This is a slippery slope for me.
    — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Her debaters warned of a slippery slope.
    — Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The greater fear by those who know better is how far will this slippery slope go?
    — Annika Erikson, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
  • That’s a complex and slippery slope.
    — Stuart Miller, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
  • There are bound to be slippery slopes to any form of such censorship.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 20 July 2019
  • The Broncos stand on a slippery slope.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The graph above shows the slippery slope of leaders who are poor role models.
    — Joseph Folkman, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • There is a belief that such offers are a slippery slope—well, maybe.
    — Ilia Kiselevich, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Making movies about things that are ripped from headlines is a slippery slope.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
  • That’s a slippery slope…we’re actors, we are supposed to act.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • That could be a slippery slope, one that would make the world’s game less local and more global.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
  • And that becomes really a slippery slope that leads to a very dark place.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • 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 slippery slope is turning into an avalanche of the abuse of power.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The idea of stripping rights from the mentally ill is a very slippery slope.
    — Peter Mandel, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2018
  • And that could prove to be a slippery slope, Freedom House warns.
    — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 14 Oct. 2020
  • But in this case the really bad things are a tippy-toe down the slippery slope.
    — F.h. Buckley, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • And that creates a slippery slope in our -- in our justice system.
    — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2025
  • And while such insurance charges are legal, some see the move as a slippery slope.
    — Abigail Abrams, Time, 27 Aug. 2021
  • This is a slippery slope that could lead to larger, more powerful ground troops.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 June 2023
  • This, too, is part of the slippery slope of getting in bed with the gambling aspect.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 June 2018
  • Who would plunge off the slippery slope and fall into minusland?
    — Aleksandra Crapanzano, Marie Claire, 20 Dec. 2012
  • 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
  • But Gilman calls that a slippery slope to bankruptcy.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • And is that a step down a slippery slope that leads to restrictions that many people would not want on free speech?
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
  • And thus the slippery slope was oiled by the best intentions, and down everyone slid.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2018
  • The Hoosiers ceded the higher ground and are battling against a very slippery slope.
    — Justin Williams, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024
  • This seemed a slippery slope; the core of Chineseness might fade away.
    — Perry Link, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015
  • Even in the West, this quest can, in the name of harmony, become a slippery slope.
    — The Atlantic, 11 July 2019

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