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    1. The cat waited, watching the owl disappear into the darkness, then turned its attention back to the trail it was following, slinking along close to the ground, its large head steady, every nerve taught


    2. Carolyn glanced in the direction Dawn was pointing and saw some cats slinking along the fence towards her struggling pony


    3. She turned back as Carolyn shouted a warning and saw the big cat slinking its way towards them, head low to the ground, yellow eyes blazing


    4. What can they do if you refuse to play by their rules and carry on killing them on sight? Nothing for they lost the initiative! They cannot get to you (homeland USA) to attack you so they are reduced to slinking around in their third world countries fearing the reconnaissance satellites and drones and Egg Breakers


    5. The slinking creature leapt through an opening in a fence and was gone, yet the groaning continued


    6. Jenny and Fergus said no more but steered their way down Coven Hill with Mister slinking at their heels just as he had done on the ascent


    7. “Gareth, is that you? What are you slinking about at?”


    8. Even the mountain dogs were quiet although he thought he could glimpse them slinking around and through the bony legs of Gelahn’s deadly troops


    9. A wind blowing across the green floor would have made more noise than Conan's slinking feet


    10. Slinking in the shadows was not congenial to his nature

    11. He glided down the marble steps like a slinking panther, sword in hand


    12. He lashed out with his heels at a slinking shadow that ducked and bobbed about him—and then about Conan other shadows moved: gray, furtive shadows that closed in on all sides


    13. team slinking around the house


    14. thy slinking feline shall lay with the tarnishing mouse,


    15. I'm really not” before slinking out


    16. If the poor bastard slinking away was worthy of a cringe of embarrassment, then surely there should be a sprinkling of embarrassment left over for Jameer


    17. street and al eyway that he went past and then slinking into streets further along


    18. He started off with a short slinking stride, sword raised high and ready to strike


    19. This striving towards a future and slinking away from a past is what creates the illusion that there is such a thing as a future and a past


    20. she said, slinking beside him, “Problems at home?” He shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly

    21. The black things slinking along the ceilings and


    22. But the flow of liquor over ice did not long hold Hugh’s attention as a slinking shadow at the doorway materialised into a woman more mesmerising than he had ever seen before


    23. With his mother and her assistant gone, the chamber echoed with the silence of slinking shadows caused by sleeping bats that barely moved and would not fly till nightfall


    24. A second, lower growl and they backed off, slinking into the bush from where they had come


    25. The school children were still learning about Bismarck's birthday, the schoolmaster was still laboriously computing attendances and endeavouring to obey the difficult law which commanded him to cane the absent, the elders of the church were still refusing to repair the steeple in time, the confirmation class was still meeting explanations and exhortations with thick inattention, the ecclesiastical authorities were still demanding detailed reports of progress when there was not and could not be progress, couples were still forgetting marriage until the last hurried moment and then demanding it with insistent cries, infants were still being hastily christened before the same neglects that killed those other infants who else might have been their proud and happy grandparents carried them off, and peasants were still slinking away at the bare mention of intelligence and manure


    26. Your cat, Twinkles, is slinking around the house looking cranky (probably because no one


    27. “Where is that slinking


    28. I noticed that a house buggie was slinking along the wall toward the stove


    29. The house seemed strange without the constant slinking motion of the animals, and peaceful


    30. Depressed and slinking though they were, eyes of fire were not wanting among them; nor compressed lips, white with what they suppressed; nor foreheads knitted into the likeness of the gallows-rope they mused about enduring, or inflicting

    31. As she meditated, at about nine o'clock, he opened the door and came in, slinking, and yet sulky


    32. Slinking into the shadows, he slowly passed one pillar at a time and drew nearer to his target that showed no sign of detecting his presence


    33. The days of hiding behind columns and slinking around were long gone


    34. Woodley must be staying in the neighbourhood, for he did not sleep here, and yet I caught a glimpse of him again this morning slinking about in the shrubbery


    35. 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


    36. He leaned against the wall with his arms folded on his breast, and the doctor walked up and down the whole length of the place with his peculiar hobbling gait, as if slinking about on damaged feet


    37. Are you trying to tell me Commander Khapahr is slinking around—probably to organize the flight of his admiral’s daughters and grandchildren—without Thirsk knowing anything about it? That’s crazy, Merlin!”


    38. He was feeling awfully low now, slinking back to East Third Street, though he couldn’t be sure why


    39. He couldn’t look at her and instead turned his gaze back to that tattoo of a tail slinking out from under her sleeve


    40. Woodley must be staying in the neighbourhood, for he did not sleep here, and yet I caught a glimpse of him again this morning, slinking about in the shrubbery

    41. But the red-haired boy was even more alarmed than Yulian Mastakovitch; he abandoned the little girl and, slinking along by the wall, stole out of the parlour into the dining-room


    1. He nodded his head and slunk away, his bad leg disappearing through the Monitor back entrance


    2. He slunk back a bit and began a slow circle of their fire


    3. "No problem", said the wolf and off he slunk into the shadows,


    4. She slunk back passed the talrin pen and thru the keda field, then worked her way out and around Nalu's and Cthanthan’s houses and back up to Knume's thru the front


    5. N: The council of the fishes were amazed at the rabbit’s courtesy to their King and slunk away with shame at their own rude conduct in kidnapping him, when a simple request would have been enough


    6. Mim and Yula slunk down onto the cushions of the vacated seat---right at home


    7. James slunk back, stopped and leaned against the door


    8. Peascod slunk away with an abashed giggle muttering that Thistle


    9. Instead of running away the cat lowered its head and slunk nearer


    10. Hissing low in its throat the lead cat slunk to the next tree, slithering around it, body close to the ground, yellow slit eyes fixed on the man lying on the ground

    11. Had the great killer slunk off wounded or—? He didn’t quite know how to think about what had just happened


    12. Only in retrospect had Keinalone learned what had become of the tribe who had slunk away after a leaderless skirmish


    13. woman and slowly slunk back into the house before slamming the


    14. I slunk away as he leapt up to play wrestle with whoever had thrown it


    15. Instead, he’d rested his head on the table and waited until the slow strands of his own character slunk back into his thoughts


    16. Egil slunk away to a dark corner, where he spoke with the invisible wizard


    17. The opposition slunk back into


    18. They slunk back into dark corners as they smell their own rottenness


    19. He slunk from the room to plan his revenge on Isaiah


    20. She took me downstairs, introduced me, and slunk back to her cell

    21. We slunk around the side and under the building - a forest of galvanised poles


    22. She slunk into the room, and it was then he noticed she was


    23. The whole thing had been embarrassingly amateur and I slunk away, sick with apprehension


    24. I couldn’t make myself get off the ferry, just sat there in shock for the return trip, slunk home as soon as we docked, and spent the day in bed


    25. He lowered it when a dog, a great, gaunt, scarred beast, slunk out of the bushes and stood staring at them


    26. They were violently shaken and then the dog slunk back to Balthus' side, his jaws crimson


    27. He slunk along, stooped in a semi-crouch, his head turning from side to side


    28. From his very side something whimpered in fear and slunk away in the darkness


    29. Somewhere in these primitive forests were the ruins of an ancient, accursed city, men whispered, and among its tombs slunk gray, anthropomorphic shadows—Conan shuddered strongly


    30. Wolves prowled openly along the grass-grown highways, and bands of gaunt, masterless men slunk through the forests

    31. The dogs slunk further away


    32. As soon as Bubba closed the gate, he whistled twice and an obviously disappointed Fanny slunk around the corner of the doghouse, ears down, tail drooping with its wagged greeting barely discernible; piercing eyes followed the two strangers like radar


    33. Davidson slunk into the room


    34. Call it soliloquy, call it raving, call it what you like – the captain muttered on and drank by himself until morning was close, whereupon, before the Smug had a chance to peep at him over the horizon, he slunk off again to his chambers to try and snatch some sleep


    35. When Debbie got back to the top, she slunk into the back of the group


    36. Instead, he had slunk home, in the shadows of hedges and alleys


    37. So Schnottweiper slunk into the cave himself


    38. mother’s breast milk, slunk through to his newly prepared bedroom, clambered


    39. slunk into the drivers seat, disabled the alarm, hot-wired it, and they were away


    40. They slunk off into the Forest, drenched in disappointment

    41. He climbed to his knees, grabbing his ax and bow, then slunk towards the entrance


    42. minutes play and the shame-faced players and supporters slunk slowly back to their


    43. She felt like a truant and slunk out as though trying to avoid the prefects


    44. Kshatriya of the village of our sad story slunk one after the other into a


    45. ” Hunter muttered and slunk off to the kitchen to retrieve the much needed bottle of whiskey, and quickly poured himself a healthy glass full


    46. Shutting her dry mouth abruptly, Anne slunk


    47. Wrangler seemed to sense the shift in the atmosphere and slunk off to a corner


    48. While she was doing this the son, who knew no English, talked with an air of one who proposed to stand no nonsense to Joey, who knew no German, and Vicki, visibly depressed, slunk round the Christmas tree blowing her nose


    49. All day I've slunk about in silence, watching for a moment alone with Dolly


    50. Slightly shamed by the ruckus, Greg slunk back to the partial shelter of the cab, insulating himself from their glares






































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    Synonyms for "slink"

    slink prowl creep sneak steal skulk glide

    "slink" definitions

    walk stealthily