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
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How To Use sidle In A Sentence

  • They raised a shout at him, until finally the old man, reluctantly and crabbedly, sidled over to join them. The Gray Dawn
  • She was pondering that, when the pretty woman who had taken her earbob sidled up to Wusamequin. Spirited
  • Peter quickly sidled in front of Marsh and stood to attention.
  • Coby glanced at me out of the corner of his eye and sidled away a few inches.
  • Amy moved in something between a death-row shuffle and a proud march as Hart sidled close to her, ears leveled with uncertainty.
  • Tim sidled up/over to the girl sitting at the bar and asked if he could buy her a drink.
  • She sidled up to me and whispered something in my ear.
  • The Black Caucus in the House, even Charlie Rangel, who -- you know, who can get up on his high horse literally, pretty easily, even though Mr. Rangel did sort of kind of sidle up to it, there wasn't that -- that outcry that you would normally get from the Black Caucus when they think that a black person is being dealt with unfairly. CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2009
  • Finally the research vessel began to sidle sideways towards us, using its bow thrusters to close the gap with Hsu Fu.
  • Yes, the Healey was the type of car that would sidle up suggestively to your wife's MG in the golf club car park and suggest motoring down to a discreet little hotel on the coast for the weekend.
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