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

So Dennis Swanson, the head of the ABC’s sports division, ordered Lampley to cover Mike Tyson’s first fight on network TV in the hopes, Lampley said, he would embarrass himself and slink away.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2025

"I tried to slink away and he was reeling me back," Annie says.

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025

Zack tries to slink out of the room, but I grab his sleeve.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

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

These days, he says, if the doorbell rings unexpectedly, the whole household snaps into survival mode — lights off, bodies flattened behind the couch, everyone holding their breath until the offending visitor slinks away.

From Salon ● Dec. 2, 2025

As he slinks off, Royal says that the past six days have been the best of his life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

I look at him to answer, and my heart stops as he slinks behind me.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

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

Ernest slank down the staircase again with a sinking heart, and tried to get no further hints from the respectabilities of King's Bench Walk, at least in this his utmost extremity.

From Philistia by Allen, Grant

Dan. slank, a depression in the land, a hollow, O. N. slakki, Norse slakke.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

Dr. Merrick took them up, and slank noiselessly from the room, murmuring as he went some inarticulate words to the effect that he had only desired to serve her.

From The Woman Who Did by Allen, Grant

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

Hudson was right that, in the three years since New York magazine's cover story caused so much controversy, nepo babies haven't slunk off into the background.

From BBC ● May 2, 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

Indexes were close to flat early in the day, but slunk lower after the Federal Reserve released the minutes of its last policy meeting.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

My voice was soft but my tone harsh, and the boy slunk away as if he’d done something wrong.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

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

From New York Times ● May 20, 2024

The group’s 1994 LP “At Action Park” was a brutal read on post-punk, its minimalist yet seething power-trio instrumentation slinking with menace.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024

Madge tiptoed into the room, slinking around the door.

From "The Marvels" by Brian Selznick