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.
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
Here, slender salamanders slink through the leaf litter under robust stands of Santa Cruz Island buckwheat and California fuchsia.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024
I can’t let him slink off to that darkness place inside him, where his pride is strewn all over the floor in some hidden room.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
Vocabulary lists containing slink
Stargirl
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