sidle

Do they sort of sidle up to you in the elevator and say, “Good job”? Or do they ignore you in the cafeteria and hope that this passes?

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

Apart from enjoying the spectacle, many will appreciate the chance to sidle up to India’s most influential business family at the bar.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

A friendly cat will sidle up to you, tail and ears up, and may treat your leg like a foam roller.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022

His acoustic gleam hinges on boundaries, Saturn’s rings hula-hooping Earth as Sun Ra’s tone-science, distributed as sidle, cackle, ballad and soul.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2022

He tried to sidle back over to the Weasleys, but Lockhart threw an arm around his shoulders and clamped him tightly to his side.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

That’s when one satellite sidles up to another and either fixes it or kills it, depending on whose satellite it is and what day of the week it is.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2025

He sidles up, sniffs one of the vehicles, then jumps up and plants two giant paws up on the side of the buggy.

From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024

The team is sighing with relief when Kendall, of WDC, sidles up to Kowalcyk, quietly telling her the man next to Paul asked whether he could go inside, too.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023

He wears a terrifying Joker mask, sidles into conversations among neighbors on the street, and then interjects with something random.

From Slate ● Apr. 30, 2021

Garrett sidles up to me, holding the cake box, his blond hair winging out from under a baseball cap.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli

I sidled up to the bar with happy hour in full swing, feeling a little nauseated from the heat and mileage.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

Back outside, a crowd surrounded the sisters, but held back until one woman sidled up to the pair and whispered “Photo?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025

Kingsley went back inside and sidled up to the piano where Mercury was practising - it was a new song with the working title Freddie's Thing.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025

The way she sidled up right next to her at the bar in the premiere felt like someone zeroing in on a mark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2025

“He’s another Death Eater!” breathed Griphook, and Harry sidled sideways to repeat the information into Hermione’s ear.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

Now it has transformed itself into tumbleweed proper, sidling and bouncing wherever the wind chooses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

There are dozens of courtrooms spread across Floors 12 and 14, and observers and petitioners will bustle in and out, sidling past flocks of press and squads of federal officers.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025

Desperate times call for desperate measures, so you find yourself sidling into a café.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025

Zenyatta stay removed from the fray, sidling along like an outsider amused by all the foolishness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

Of course, it’s Abby, sidling up to me so closely, our arms almost touch.

From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli