13 collocations for slink

Dan, with a quick gesture, made Black Bart slink a pace back.

Perhaps a hundred yards back of her I saw four or five slinking dark forms; for the cowardly prairie wolf becomes bold when fled from, and partly out of curiosity, and perhaps looking forward to a feast on some dead or dying animal, they were stalking the girl, silent, shadowy, evil, and maybe dangerous.

But the sun was up; people were stirring in the fields; and so he slunk homewards.

His eye is red with reminiscent fire, His thoughts are by the great Zambesi River Where hides the hippopotam, huge as sin, And slinking leopards with the dappled skin.

" Slinking through the door, the fat man hesitated on the little porch and cast a quick glance up and down.

Sometimes his "left hand" astonishes us by slinking mud at his opponents, and we eagerly await the loosing of the right hand which was to give us Paradise Lost.

There used to be in the Little Antelope a she dog, stray or outcast, that had a litter in some forsaken lair, and ranged and foraged for them, slinking savage and afraid, remembering and mistrusting humankind, wistful, lean, and sufficient for her young.

You remember that slinking black satin snakelike sheath that Gita Morini wore in "Little Eyolf"?

Hanging down his head, and looking very silly, he slinked off the stage.

"I believe," he slowly said, "that's why you wanted to slink out of town the back way.

He readily divined whither they were going, but some irresistible force impelled him to follow them; and before long, from an open doorway, in which he prudently concealed himself, he saw them look round to ascertain whether they were observed, and then slink, first the wife and afterwards the husband, into the dark passage of La Rouche's house.

Her choler burns; The fist and cudgel threat by turns; With hasty stride she presses near; He slinks aloof, and howls with fear.

"Wherefore slink ye behind me?" he demanded.

13 collocations for  slink