slink

Every now and then, he watched people pull into the gas station and slink back in the car for their drive of shame.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 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

I slink into the chair across from Hina, who gives me a little shrug.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

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

Tara just slinks away into a depressive state that barely anyone notices.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

Snoopy slinks on all fours across a shadowy tree-lined road, made pink by the fiery red setting sun.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023

Even after this iconic piece of Tennessee real estate has become her home, Priscilla slinks through its rooms like a stranger, as quiet and unnoticed as a phantom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2023

He turns forward and slinks into the seat.

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas

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

In an evil hour for his own chances Joe Harley chose that worse counsel, and slank off in his familiar crouching fashion towards the opposite corner of the copse.

From Strange Stories by Grant Allen

I didn't hear what she said to him, but I could see he was utterly crushed by the way he slank away with his tail between his legs, like a whipped spaniel.

From Philistia by Grant Allen

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

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

I slunk further into the shadows, hunching over so he wouldn’t notice me as he left.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

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

Now that I’m retired, my favorite is that Ring camera that caught Coach Belichick slinking out of that poor girl’s house at 6 a.m. a few months ago.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025

K-Ming Chang’s taut novella “Cecilia” explores the intensity of desire by slinking along the razor-thin line between love and obsession, between the desire to cuddle someone or consume them.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

I nodded, thinking about Miles slinking across his rooftop and dropping down onto the demon dog’s roof.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia