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sidle

[ US /ˈsaɪdəɫ/ ]
[ UK /sˈa‍ɪdə‍l/ ]
VERB
  1. move sideways
  2. move unobtrusively or furtively
    The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log

How To Use sidle In A Sentence

  • The Jag blocked the whole alleyway, barely leaving enough room for someone to sidle past it. DEAD BEAT
  • Shortly after my wife left for her evening walk, Zachery sidled up to me furtively.
  • They sidled up to the guards, letting their cloaks loosen to let them get an eyeful.
  • Interesting, Orphan thought as she sidled around the corner of her hovel to the stone outcropping that crowned the Oracle's cavern. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • Did they kind of sidle up to you and go, So, you're turning 50? Yahoo! Sports - Top News
  • Artists and intellectuals are called upon not to offer critique or alternative visions but to sidle in compliantly amongst the lowest rungs of this same pantheon and so to boost its size and glory.
  • You might get a tart calling over, ‘Hello Jack, how are you’ - that sort of thing - and sidle over alongside.
  • He sidled past, trying to seem casual.
  • Feckless Andy, late for his former teacher's funeral, sidles into the wrong chapel at Richmond crematorium and finds himself at the sparsely attended exequies of one Christopher Madigan. Angelina Jolie Biography, Gary Shteyngart's 'Super Sad True Love Story': Book Review Roundup
  • Your first step onto the revolving disc that holds the tables can be a bit disconcerting and it's easy to get lost as your seat sidles away while you're loading up your plate.
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