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
She will also sidle up to the fence now and then to take in the latest drama going on with the rest of the colony, which now numbers 42.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
To get the pulse of the local scene, though, sidle up to the bar inside Isla Bonita Mexican restaurant.
From Seattle Times ● May 18, 2022
In one hall, they had to zig and zag to opposite sides and sidle along the lockers to avoid the security cameras.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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
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
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
One thing that worked in Dos Santos’ favor, Thorrington said, was the number of players who sidled up to say how much they wanted to play for Dos Santos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
As if on cue, Rudy, my aged Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, gingerly sidled up to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 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
When the BFG had consumed his seventy-second fried egg, Mr Tibbs sidled up to the Queen.
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
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
Martin asks, sidling up beside me against the wall.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
Vocabulary lists containing sidle
"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
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Grade 12, List 6
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