slink

Paramount might still slink away from the merger, paying Warner a $7 billion breakup fee.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

But for now, museum members could slink about the echoing halls of L.A.’s newest landmark and ponder the possibilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025

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

From BBC ● Mar. 30, 2025

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

From Slate ● May 29, 2024

A pariah dog would slink into the courtyard from time to time in search of a morsel of food.

From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 30, 2024

A little later, Crenshaw slinks back into the dressing room grousing about having to clean up someone’s faux-blood in the bar’s backstage bathroom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

Snoopy slinks on all fours across a shadowy tree-lined road, made pink by the fiery red setting sun.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2023

The little girl slinks over to her, watching us the whole time.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

German carp slank into his yard, began to feed upon the carrots, the asparagus.

From Time Magazine Archive

First the buttons: thack-thack; then the lever: slank.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hallowell slank back in his chair, shaking his head.

From Vera, the Medium by Richard Harding Davis

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

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom

Ten minutes later Hank put up his hand and slank in behind a thick mass of underwood.

From A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

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

Yet by the end of her meal, she had slunk down so low her head was almost level to the table.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025

As the houses grew more familiar I slunk still lower.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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 only time I wrote a song for a girl was ‘Ando Más Que Mal,’” said Pedro of the slinking ballad from “Corta Venas,” in which he croons in Spanish, “Thanks for killing my soul.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2023

A few seconds later, they caught sight of him slinking low to the ground across the clearing, moving silently to the cottage’s nearest window.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley