What a world had slipped in between the mouth of the mine and his mother's cottage!

But what did Elgar feel as his noble world slipped away?

The concrete world has slipped through the meshes of the scientific net.

Then he was up again, but the world was slipping away into blackness.

When Carune invented his process, the world was slipping into a dark age.

He dreamed, and the world slipped away from him.

His world ranking slipped to No. 81 by the end of the year.

The entire outside world slipped away, as did time itself - one hour, two hours, three passed imperceptibly.

The grey world had slipped into the dark by the time they went back to the kitchen.

As the world slipped into recession, oil sales slumped and several planned social reforms were cut.