sidle
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Do they sort of sidle up to you in the elevator and say, “Good job”? Or do they ignore you in the cafeteria and hope that this passes?
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
You all need to sidle up to a person and sit next to them so that the next couple can sit together.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 25, 2022
A friendly cat will sidle up to you, tail and ears up, and may treat your leg like a foam roller.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 6, 2022
His acoustic gleam hinges on boundaries, Saturn’s rings hula-hooping Earth as Sun Ra’s tone-science, distributed as sidle, cackle, ballad and soul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
I sidle a glance at the red-haired fighter, to find his attention fixed on me with an intensity that sends an unexpected flutter through my chest.
From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir
That’s when one satellite sidles up to another and either fixes it or kills it, depending on whose satellite it is and what day of the week it is.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2025
He sidles up, sniffs one of the vehicles, then jumps up and plants two giant paws up on the side of the buggy.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024
The team is sighing with relief when Kendall, of WDC, sidles up to Kowalcyk, quietly telling her the man next to Paul asked whether he could go inside, too.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
The property enjoys a hillside perch in the Oaks, a celebrity-filled neighborhood on the west side of Los Feliz that sidles up against Hollywood Hills.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2021
Hammie sidles up beside me as we go, taking off her face mask and folding it away in her purse.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
As if on cue, Rudy, my aged Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, gingerly sidled up to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Kingsley went back inside and sidled up to the piano where Mercury was practising - it was a new song with the working title Freddie's Thing.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
A big, middle-aged Irishman sidled past my friend and muttered, “I thought it was bad in Belfast.”
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2025
But Morgan sidled over after practice anyway and we talked for about 20 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2024
Martin sidled up to Moss and put a box of tissues and a pitcher of water on the table before dashing off.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
Now it has transformed itself into tumbleweed proper, sidling and bouncing wherever the wind chooses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
There are dozens of courtrooms spread across Floors 12 and 14, and observers and petitioners will bustle in and out, sidling past flocks of press and squads of federal officers.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so you find yourself sidling into a café.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
Now it’s been sidling tragically toward it: It is closed, and probably unlikely to reopen in the same place ever again.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2024
Edna says, sidling up to him, which makes Rachel’s eyes bulge.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
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Grade 12, List 6
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