And so she had to kind of slink back to the table. From Wordnik.com. [Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop -- Guardians of the American Century] Reference
Normally when you drop out of the presidential race, you kind of slink home and lay low. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2008] Reference
"slink" in the rumba, I must admit that, but as a general work of art, it was beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [BuddyTV] Reference
I watched him and his followers slink away very crestfallen. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary] Reference
From the holes where fraud, falsehood, and hate slink away. From Wordnik.com. [War Poetry of the South] Reference
"You slink back in that dark alleyway until you hear from me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Allies Under the Sea] Reference
Most other snakes will try and slink into a corner, or hide up. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
Can I slink by a side-road out of sight of my own intelligence? '. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
They hardly ever put up a fight, merely slink back to the streets. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will Carry Us?] Reference
For a moment I was abashed and would have liked to slink out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
Do they slink into darkened corners, hating and hurting only themselves?. From Wordnik.com. [Hooked on 'Addiction'] Reference
Fox could slink away and hide his disease from us — few would blame him. From Wordnik.com. [Heartlessness] Reference
You slink out, gifts left at the counter, angry and a little bit ashamed, too. From Wordnik.com. [Bah, Humbug!] Reference
They are essentially tired of the war, and would slink back home if they could. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Once inside, she would tuck her tail beneath her body and slink along the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Bomb-Sniffing Dog Gina Comes Home From Iraq Traumatized, Suffering From PTSD] Reference
The detective did not attempt to slink away -- he was too cool and ready-witted. From Wordnik.com. [The Dock Rats of New York] Reference
This was code to slink down to the woods beyond the public swimming pool and make out. From Wordnik.com. [The Summer She Turned 17] Reference
They may slink away under cover of darkness or transform into vapor and waft out the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Nature Of Things] Reference
Before long the two cats, Sadie and Tugboat slink in the room and begin circling the duck. From Wordnik.com. [Route 346] Reference
Instead he seemed to slink down in his chair, bound as he was, as if trying to get out of sight. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference
They slink off to the New York woman's trysting place when there is no longer any reason for secrecy. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
He would whine solemnly until a lively tune was struck up; when he would slink away in manifest displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, April 1873, Vol. XIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest People] Reference
They will slink through the open window, and walk down the moonlit driveway to wherever it was they came from. From Wordnik.com. [Animals, Animals, Animals] Reference
De one dat do dat was just a smart aleck and de cap'n of de crowd shame him and make him slink 'way, out de house. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4] Reference
I slink past him, his peculiar smell of cooked onions and Old Spice a comfortable annoyance. From Wordnik.com. [Snake Dreams] Reference
"He decided to slink away, and staying slunk away might have been a better option than coming back in this fashion.". From Wordnik.com. [Total Fiction] Reference
But there was no help for it -- unless he desired to slink back to the camp he had just abandoned with such thief-like stealth. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Cowards! "exclaimed a younger man, in a fierce whisper, as the others began to slink away;" are you afraid of a parcel of women?. From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference
You might think that, having been caught perpetrating such a whopper, Torricelli would have slunk off to wherever such people slink. From Wordnik.com. [Torricelli's Larger Point] Reference
With any luck, they'll slink quietly back into their adolescence, unviolated by reality TV, and we'll never need to know their names. From Wordnik.com. [Who are these women?: D.C. "Housewives" recap and fact-check (#1, Aug. 5)] Reference
I felt sorry for my friend too, because he had to stay there where he lived and try to hold his head up while I could slink off back home. From Wordnik.com. [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference
He no longer opposed any of my demonstrations, and finally, with a hearty chuckle, saw me slink past him into the groves, wardrobe in hand. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
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