slink
Example Sentences
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He was ready to run, but his mother curled a finger at him and he slunk over to her.
From Literature
The beast, meanwhile, decided that it had had enough of just watching the two of them and proceeded to ease itself through the hole and slink through onto the floor.
From Literature
Every now and then, he watched people pull into the gas station and slink back in the car for their drive of shame.
The album was “Transference,” its cover a grainy seventies tableau — a boy slinking low in a golden wingback chair, viridian curtains pooling behind him, a table lamp casting an almost aggressively orange glow.
From Salon
“They slink in without warning, do no immediate damage so far as one can tell and then begin their deadly work from within….”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
