sidle
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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
They’re more like trusty gags that sidle in wearing Groucho Marx glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025
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
You can sidle up at the bar with a wild boar burger or in the dining room, order venison “camouflaged” by root vegetables.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2022
I sidle a glance at the red-haired fighter, to find his attention fixed on me with an intensity that sends an unexpected flutter through my chest.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
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
Brian McIntire, owner of Precinct, is less impressed as the group sidles up to the door then heads backstage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
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
Hammie sidles up beside me as we go, taking off her face mask and folding it away in her purse.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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
A big, middle-aged Irishman sidled past my friend and muttered, “I thought it was bad in Belfast.”
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2025
But Morgan sidled over after practice anyway and we talked for about 20 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
I sidled up alongside the kapo, but when I saw his face I gasped.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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
Now it’s been sidling tragically toward it: It is closed, and probably unlikely to reopen in the same place ever again.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
McCarthy denied sidling up to Burchett and elbowing him in the kidney, just as he denied the "Trump's not eating" story.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2023
Martin asks, sidling up beside me against the wall.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
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Grade 12, List 6
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