slinking

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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

You can picture him slinking off to a goth club to sway and stare away the night to the strains of Bauhaus’ “Bela Lugosi’s Dead.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024

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

Undulating hills slinking off into the misty nothingness of the horizon.

From New York Times • May 20, 2024

During the day I could see them slinking through the brush, watching me.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell