sidle

As the doors to the ballroom were flung open and the other guests came in, the admiral sidled up to Penelope and spoke quietly into her ear.

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

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.

As if on cue, Rudy, my aged Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, gingerly sidled up to him.

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.