1.The carvings on the cabin have lost lustre (faded) long before , the slates on the road have been outworn to their slipperiness by to-and-fros of generations.
4.Due to its slipperiness the clothes will naturally adjust underneath to fill the pockets of air that, may be trapped between all those folded layers.
5.Several theoretical and experimental studies in the last few years have found the real cause of ice's slipperiness — that thin layer of liquid water on the surface, it isn't really liquid water at all.