slink

Kantenga laughed when I posed it to him, saying his usual gut reaction to the question is to slink away like the meme of Homer Simpson retreating into the bushes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

But each time the net seemed to be closing in on Neukgu, he would slink off the radar.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

Do you slink away and count on the courts to sort it out?

From Salon ● May 13, 2025

Every few months after she left the narrow white cottage on Poplar Boulevard, Maria Merritt would slink back to the tree-lined street in El Sereno, find a secluded spot and stare at her old house.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

As soon as she disappears from view, I slink behind her desk.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

He slinks along a wall, scales a cliff, navigates drain pipes and leaps up and down from his preferred perch—behind the left shoulder of Din Djarin, aka the Mandalorian warrior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

These days, he says, if the doorbell rings unexpectedly, the whole household snaps into survival mode — lights off, bodies flattened behind the couch, everyone holding their breath until the offending visitor slinks away.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

As he slinks off, Royal says that the past six days have been the best of his life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

Tara just slinks away into a depressive state that barely anyone notices.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

She slinks down off her stool and disappears behind a rack of fur-lined leggings.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

German carp slank into his yard, began to feed upon the carrots, the asparagus.

From Time Magazine Archive

First the buttons: thack-thack; then the lever: slank.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dan. slank, a depression in the land, a hollow, O. N. slakki, Norse slakke.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

“I’se warrant he’s do that, doctor;” and in slank the faithful beast.

From Spare Hours by John Brown

"Beatrix still sat at the disordered table" One by one, the terrified guests slank away.

From The Dominant Strain by H. C. (Harry C.) Edwards

Afterward, with the help of remaining friends, he slunk off to the U.S. in 1876, where he taught in Massachusetts for a while, then took up as a freelance newspaper writer in Chicago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

This is what first slunk out of Paul’s imagination: “A man dressed as a bat sitting in a hot tub full of mashed potatoes.”

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025

Keepers realised within minutes the springer spaniel-sized rodent had slunk off to an adjacent area of long grass and woodland, and began to stake it out.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024

And when Jan. 1 rolls around, it’s slunk back into storage, job well done.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

Calamity Jane, Finn’s tiny striped cat, slunk under the fence and twirled around his legs.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

The hush-hush raves that require knowing someone and slinking into condemned warehouses have always happened alongside parties thrown by big-name promoters.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

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 ● Dec. 30, 2025

“Water,” the Johannesburg native’s smash 2023 single, is feather-light and elegant, slinking around a deft amapiano beat .

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2024

K-Ming Chang’s taut novella “Cecilia” explores the intensity of desire by slinking along the razor-thin line between love and obsession, between the desire to cuddle someone or consume them.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

I wanted to see where Noah was slinking off to.

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan