How to Use slink in a Sentence

slink

1 of 2 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
• Then, slinking through the palm garden, the thieves kicked in two boards on the fence enclosing the bonsai display.
  — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2024
• The tale begins in 1600 with a ghost ship slinking into a small Japanese harbor town.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2024

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slink

2 of 2 noun

• There were crisp poplin shirts and crimson red slink-sheaths and flutters of tulle, all thrown against the steel-on-stone backdrop of Hudson Harbor.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022
• Gigi Hadid wore a dark hoodie dress with a high slink factor.
  — Colleen Barry, ajc, 23 Sep. 2022
• Charlize Theron was seductively dishabille in a Dior gown that was part black corset and part emerald slink.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
• The protagonist version of Loki is intent on avoiding the fight and escaping the hideout, picking his way through the brawl with a mischievous slink.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 June 2022
• In the Harry Potter movies, coy and irritating Parvati and Padma slink in the vicinity of the main characters, hoping to be noticed by them but ultimately being cast aside and ignored.
  — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2021
• There were crisp poplin shirts and crimson red slink-sheaths and flutters of tulle, all thrown against the steel-on-stone backdrop of Hudson Harbor.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022
• Gigi Hadid wore a dark hoodie dress with a high slink factor.
  — Colleen Barry, ajc, 23 Sep. 2022
• Charlize Theron was seductively dishabille in a Dior gown that was part black corset and part emerald slink.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
• The protagonist version of Loki is intent on avoiding the fight and escaping the hideout, picking his way through the brawl with a mischievous slink.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 June 2022
• In the Harry Potter movies, coy and irritating Parvati and Padma slink in the vicinity of the main characters, hoping to be noticed by them but ultimately being cast aside and ignored.
  — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2021
• There were crisp poplin shirts and crimson red slink-sheaths and flutters of tulle, all thrown against the steel-on-stone backdrop of Hudson Harbor.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022
• Gigi Hadid wore a dark hoodie dress with a high slink factor.
  — Colleen Barry, ajc, 23 Sep. 2022
• Charlize Theron was seductively dishabille in a Dior gown that was part black corset and part emerald slink.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
• The protagonist version of Loki is intent on avoiding the fight and escaping the hideout, picking his way through the brawl with a mischievous slink.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 June 2022
• In the Harry Potter movies, coy and irritating Parvati and Padma slink in the vicinity of the main characters, hoping to be noticed by them but ultimately being cast aside and ignored.
  — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024