slink
Example Sentences
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Every now and then, he watched people pull into the gas station and slink back in the car for their drive of shame.
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
“They slink in without warning, do no immediate damage so far as one can tell and then begin their deadly work from within….”
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
“It’s a little bit like herding cats sometimes,” Kramer said of keeping volunteers from trying to slink away.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
