How to Use slink in a Sentence

slink

1 of 2 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
• Why not just let Benton slink away, as others before him have done?
  — Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026
• 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

slink

2 of 2 noun

• Finally, around the video’s three-minute mark, the coyote turns tail and slinks into the brush.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 31 Jan. 2024
• Gigi Hadid wore a dark hoodie dress with a high slink factor.
  — Colleen Barry, ajc, 23 Sep. 2022
• There’s a reason so many of these slink into theaters and onto streaming services during the autumn months.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
• For most of its run time, Never Let Go slinks along slowly, but its final act explodes like a powder keg.
  — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
• After playing in the snow, book a spa treatment and slink into a copper soaking tub or enjoy a heated river stone massage.
  — Brittany Anas, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• Charlize Theron was seductively dishabille in a Dior gown that was part black corset and part emerald slink.
  — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2020
• There were crisp poplin shirts and crimson red slink-sheaths and flutters of tulle, all thrown against the steel-on-stone backdrop of Hudson Harbor.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Sep. 2022
• Pixie, Lamy and Owens’s hairless sphynx cat, slinks across the black plywood dining table hunting for food.
  — Nick Haramis Ola Rindal Dogukan Nesanir, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Most Broadway shows that close slink into the darkness uncelebrated.
  — Mark Kennedy, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Unsure whether to strip off her shirt or call the police, Connie slinks around, desperate to shake her shyness but unable to escape the naïveté that still defines her.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 8 May 2024
• After the second pisco sour, which comes on the heels of rushing out of the lodge in time to see two puma slink into the shadows, no one is worried about anything, least of all my presence on this trip.
  — Rebecca Misner, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Jan. 2023
• The protagonist version of Loki is intent on avoiding the fight and escaping the hideout, picking his way through the brawl with a mischievous slink.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 June 2022
• Sometimes a new archeological site rattles an old timetable, then slinks, invalidated, into obscurity.
  — Joann C Gutin, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• In the Harry Potter movies, coy and irritating Parvati and Padma slink in the vicinity of the main characters, hoping to be noticed by them but ultimately being cast aside and ignored.
  — NBC News, 24 Nov. 2021