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
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
The beast, meanwhile, decided that it had had enough of just watching the two of them and proceeded to ease itself through the hole and slink through onto the floor.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
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