slinking

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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

“Water,” the Johannesburg native’s smash 2023 single, is feather-light and elegant, slinking around a deft amapiano beat .

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2024

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

From New York Times • May 20, 2024

An Amur leopard - "the world's rarest big cat" - is slinking around his new enclosure after arriving at Dartmoor Zoo.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2023

He could see the shadowy figure of the bulky security guard slinking away from the round desk at the center of the rotunda.

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein