SLINK in a Sentence

Learn SLINK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

10 example sentences for SLINK, such as:

1. The youth went slinking around this spot.
2. I'd crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink there.
3. Wounded men and other stragglers were slinking through the woods.
4. I did not slink away through cowardice, but through an unbounded vanity.
5. And then I can paddle over to town nights, and slink around and pick up things I want.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLINK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
slink
 v.  creep away meanly; steal away; sneak.
Classic Sentence:
1  And then I can paddle over to town nights, and slink around and pick up things I want.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
2  I wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little, and see what there was there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
3  Don't imagine, though, it was cowardice made me slink away from the officer; I never have been a coward at heart, though I have always been a coward in action.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
4  I did not slink away through cowardice, but through an unbounded vanity.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
5  I'd crawl somewhere to a cave, and slink there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
6  The youth went slinking around this spot.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
7  Wounded men and other stragglers were slinking through the woods.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
8  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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST
9  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 Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
10  Then there are other stories--stories that you have been seen creeping at dawn out of dreadful houses and slinking in disguise into the foulest dens in London.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
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