[
US
/ˈsaɪdəɫ/
]
[ UK /sˈaɪdəl/ ]
[ UK /sˈaɪdəl/ ]
VERB
- move sideways
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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
- 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.