slink
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Paramount might still slink away from the merger, paying Warner a $7 billion breakup fee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Do you slink away and count on the courts to sort it out?
From Salon ● May 13, 2025
"I tried to slink away and he was reeling me back," Annie says.
From BBC ● Mar. 30, 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
Nearby, the yellow dog cringed and tried to slink away from Old Tallow’s glare.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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 the sounds of torrential rain and creaking floorboards set an increasingly macabre mood, Patrick slinks toward pure paranoia as he wonders who his mysterious yet familiar-looking visitor might be, and what she’s after.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
Tara just slinks away into a depressive state that barely anyone notices.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024
A tall girl wearing glasses and a too-big sweatshirt slinks out.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
First the buttons: thack-thack; then the lever: slank.
From Time Magazine Archive
German carp slank into his yard, began to feed upon the carrots, the asparagus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ten minutes later Hank put up his hand and slank in behind a thick mass of underwood.
From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
Ernest slank down the staircase again with a sinking heart, and tried to get no further hints from the respectabilities of King's Bench Walk, at least in this his utmost extremity.
From Philistia by Grant Allen
“I’se warrant he’s do that, doctor;” and in slank the faithful beast.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
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
He stared at her, glanced around with trepidation, and then slunk into the room.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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
“The only time I wrote a song for a girl was ‘Ando Más Que Mal,’” said Pedro of the slinking ballad from “Corta Venas,” in which he croons in Spanish, “Thanks for killing my soul.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023
Even “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour,” that musical behemoth slinking from stadiums to screen, commands a rigorous 2 hours and 48.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2023
"Pay close attention," Ivy whispers to me before slinking backward into the growing pack of onlookers.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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