He lifted a lock of her hair and allowed the strands to slide through his fingers.

She remembered the silky feel of his hair sliding through her fingers.

Squeezing, he felt it slide through his fingers, and then fade.

And the feel of the wool sliding through my fingers was almost like a caress.

Life began to slide through my fingers, and the harder I grasped hold of it, the more fell away from me.

Not even when the rope continued to slide through his fingers.

You don't see money like that go sliding through your fingers without getting pretty mad.

The man slid a carefully-braided rag rope through his fingers.

He picked up the rune-bone, slid it through his fingers swiftly.

As she reached for him, his hair slid through her fingers, and the river snatched him away.