slink

“Upon encountering humans, the snakes’ first inclination is to slink away, but they will strike if suddenly disturbed or cornered,” a 1991 Times report said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 2026

“They slink in without warning, do no immediate damage so far as one can tell and then begin their deadly work from within….”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 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

I slink inside and shut the door behind me.

From "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher

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

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

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

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2023

Gabriel slinks into the corner and sits at a Net station, looking small and thankful to be under the radar.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

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

Hallowell slank back in his chair, shaking his head.

From Vera, the Medium by Richard Harding Davis

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 Grant Allen

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

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

Keepers realised within minutes the springer spaniel-sized rodent had slunk off to an adjacent area of long grass and woodland, and began to stake it out.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2024

The girl cowered and slunk away, joining a group of boys and girls her age, all of whom had been watching.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

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

Here, mountain lions mostly hide during the day but come out at night, caught on doorbell cameras’ video slinking into backyards and hopping fences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2025

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

The thought that a virus might be slinking its way through his system ... it was unbearable.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner