slink

It might seem like it would be more sensible for this ritual to take place after the game, for the victors to stage a triumphant, high-style parade and for everyone else to slink out, unnoticed.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

But each time the net seemed to be closing in on Neukgu, he would slink off the radar.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026

“It’s a little bit like herding cats sometimes,” Kramer said of keeping volunteers from trying to slink away.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025

A national punchline, Garvey was forced to slink out of the limelight.

From Slate ● May 29, 2024

The human-size sack kept trying to slink away.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

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

Not that you would know it from the way he first slinks onscreen, silent and watchful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 23, 2025

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

The suave Morales slinks through the film making his unflappable villain alluring.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2023

The femme fatale must be back, Veronica Lake slinks again.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

O. N. slakki, a slope, Norse slakke, Dan. slank.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

I didn't hear what she said to him, but I could see he was utterly crushed by the way he slank away with his tail between his legs, like a whipped spaniel.

From Philistia by Grant Allen

He was left in a low slank after a fflood, and ye water fell away from him, and he died.

From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs

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

Put their tails down and slunk right out from under the best practical joke ever thought up by man or boy in Cold Sassy, Georgia.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

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

Arthur, coming behind her sheepishly, moved past her and, almost slinking, settled in a chair by the fire.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson