sidle
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Do they sort of sidle up to you in the elevator and say, “Good job”? Or do they ignore you in the cafeteria and hope that this passes?
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
Apart from enjoying the spectacle, many will appreciate the chance to sidle up to India’s most influential business family at the bar.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
She will also sidle up to the fence now and then to take in the latest drama going on with the rest of the colony, which now numbers 42.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2023
His acoustic gleam hinges on boundaries, Saturn’s rings hula-hooping Earth as Sun Ra’s tone-science, distributed as sidle, cackle, ballad and soul.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2022
I walk over and stand in front of him, and I have to tell you, a nervousness manages to sidle up next to me.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
It then sidles up to a smaller U.S. government jet and elevates its container once again, presumably letting Trump board unnoticed.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
That’s when one satellite sidles up to another and either fixes it or kills it, depending on whose satellite it is and what day of the week it is.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2025
He sidles up, sniffs one of the vehicles, then jumps up and plants two giant paws up on the side of the buggy.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2024
The team is sighing with relief when Kendall, of WDC, sidles up to Kowalcyk, quietly telling her the man next to Paul asked whether he could go inside, too.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2023
These days Molly slips into Vivian’s house, ducks her head with a quick hello to Terry, sidles up the stairs.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
As if on cue, Rudy, my aged Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, gingerly sidled up to him.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Kingsley went back inside and sidled up to the piano where Mercury was practising - it was a new song with the working title Freddie's Thing.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
Just as the YouTube Theater is sidled next to SoFi Stadium, two smaller entertainment venues — with capacities of 5,000 and 2,500 people — will neighbor Rams headquarters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025
A big, middle-aged Irishman sidled past my friend and muttered, “I thought it was bad in Belfast.”
From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2025
Matthias sidled up, helping himself to a candied chestnut.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Now it has transformed itself into tumbleweed proper, sidling and bouncing wherever the wind chooses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
There are dozens of courtrooms spread across Floors 12 and 14, and observers and petitioners will bustle in and out, sidling past flocks of press and squads of federal officers.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025
“This is how politics used to be,” Democrat Harvey Englander said after sidling up to Republican Joel Fox.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so you find yourself sidling into a café.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
Duff said, sidling up to her by the railing.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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"Everyday Use" by Alice Walker
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Grade 12, List 6
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