How to Use slink in a Sentence

slink

verb
  • He slinked away in shame.
  • Anne slinks off with her husband.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Purseweb spiders build silken tunnels that slink up the sides of trees.
    — Jason Bittel, National Geographic, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Be big and loud, but avoid hazing moms with pups, and slink away — never sprint.
    — Vanessa Hua, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The songs have slunk back to the pace of a torpid murder ballad.
    — James Robins, Vulture, 1 May 2023
  • But that only leads to the slinker to slink further and faster.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Some of the dogs looked like they were being dragged, slinking down as the snow hit their faces.
    — New York Times, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Watch for my sordid senescent self to slink down a boulevard near you soon.
    — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 15 July 2022
  • Once the dogs lost interest, the opossum would get up and slink away.
    — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • No amount of talking, though, will make the gorilla slink away.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 21 July 2022
  • Bugs slink through the cracks in thin-walled houses on the edges of expressways.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Out slink the striped cats, snarling and roaring, leaping at each other or at me.
    — Alessandro Meregaglia, The Conversation, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • The team slunk out of Wrigley Field two games later facing the abyss.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Or slink back into your sleepy everything is just fine or just a hoax comfort zone.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 23 June 2020
  • Rarely would a sea turtle slink up behind you and catch you entirely off-guard.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • Out of sight, a car door slams; an orange cat slinks behind a pot of geraniums.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Hands slink around doorways and sofas and emerge out of closets and gutters.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Other testers praised the Nela for its ability to carve big turns and slink through bumps.
    — Marc Peruzzi, Outside Online, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Who’s trying to slink into the weekend with some right-proper, bassy garage?
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trish’s words efface Cannon’s, which slink off the page.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • The ones who do tend to retire, either with an impassioned speech or by just slinking away.
    — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
  • But even Stewart, slinking through the movie with a shrug and a wink, just looks more bored than anything.
    — Time, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Panting and glowering, Sid and his neighbor would slink back to their rooms.
    — Katie Prout, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2021

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