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SLINK

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Irregular inflected form: slunk   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Walk stealthily

Example:

I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "slink" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children slink to the playground

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 Context examples: 

Still, I could not bring myself to desert Jim; and so, as I say, I slunk about the house with so pale and peaky a face that my dear mother would have it that I had been at the green apples, and sent me to bed early with a dish of camomile tea for my supper.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He waited his opportunity to slink out of camp to the woods.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

We slunk through the bushes in silence until we came to the very edge of the cliff, close to the old camp.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do you think I would leave her alone to face the music while I slunk away?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He slunk away with a livid face and two venomous eyes which uttered more threats than his tongue could do.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even as he gazed, however, the two came writhing out from among the heather, and came down towards him with such a guilty, slinking carriage, that the clerk felt that there was no good in them, and hastened onwards upon his way.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had been discomposed enough before; but I was so much the more discomposed by this unexpected behaviour, that I was on the point of slinking off, to think how I had best proceed, when there came out of the house a lady with her handkerchief tied over her cap, and a pair of gardening gloves on her hands, wearing a gardening pocket like a toll-man's apron, and carrying a great knife.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

White Fang slunk into camp one evening and dropped down with a sigh of content.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In the great moonlight clearings I slunk along among the shadows on the margin.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A man came slinking along, went into the hut, gave a cry as if he had seen a ghost, and legged it as hard as he could run until he was out of sight.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)