How to Use slink in a Sentence

slink

verb

• He slinked away in shame.
• Even from its own menu, the eel has learned to slink away.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• The roads here are gravel and slink through the mountains.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
• The songs have slunk back to the pace of a torpid murder ballad.
  — James Robins, Vulture, 1 May 2023
• Even in tracked up chunder, the skis never feel hooky and seem to slink down the fall line.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2022
• Some of the dogs looked like they were being dragged, slinking down as the snow hit their faces.
  — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
• The feline slinks, pounces and even takes to the dance floor for a tango when a female tiger comes on the scene.
  — David Sturm, Columbia Flier, 15 Sep. 2017
• But that only leads to the slinker to slink further and faster.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
• Purseweb spiders build silken tunnels that slink up the sides of trees.
  — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019
• Bugs slink through the cracks in thin-walled houses on the edges of expressways.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• Once the dogs lost interest, the opossum would get up and slink away.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
• Let the dog backtrack and work behind, too, as roosters like to slink out the back door.
  — Outdoor Life, 18 Oct. 2023
• The howler monkeys slink like cats through the canopy, swiveling their heads to look for danger.
  — Sam Kean, Science | AAAS, 17 Aug. 2017
• If only the Giants could slink out of Coors Field and head straight to Atlanta.
  — Andrew Baggarly, The Mercury News, 15 June 2017
• There were a few who noticed him slink in tonight, and none who wanted to give him any grief.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018
• Others just slink in and take a seat in the back, preferring to let their skills do the talking.
  — Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 6 July 2017
• The Fold is very difficult to traverse and requires a dark and silent ship that slinks along the sand.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 16 Mar. 2023
• Be big and loud, but avoid hazing moms with pups, and slink away — never sprint.
  — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• Dancers … slinked, swooped and strutted through a glitzy opening number that had the look of a Baz Luhrmann film.
  — Greg Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2018
• Other testers praised the Nela for its ability to carve big turns and slink through bumps.
  — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2022
• But even Stewart, slinking through the movie with a shrug and a wink, just looks more bored than anything.
  — Time, 15 Nov. 2019
• The sun seemed to slink in a low arc across the sky, as if somehow sheepish about showing up on such an odd day.
  — Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2021
• No amount of talking, though, will make the gorilla slink away.
  — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
• At one point my son and husband walk into the kitchen, see me with all the knives, and quietly slink out again.
  — Irina Dumitrescu, Longreads, 20 Aug. 2020
• Watch for my sordid senescent self to slink down a boulevard near you soon.
  — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 15 July 2022
• At the bottom of the page, a downtrodden Salvini was shown slinking off to the sidelines.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2019
• Thibault doubled over, and all Ferrara could do was slink away and pray that nobody had seen.
  — Jason Buckland, New York Times, 29 May 2017
• Meanwhile, in Cittágazze, night falls on the city as the Specters slink around the shadows looking for fresh souls to devour.
  — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2020
• And Cena was allowed to celebrate all around the ring as Corbin slinked away.
  — baltimoresun.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• Victory often went to the larger of the two, and the loser was forced to slink away, homeless for the time being.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 28 May 2024