How To Use Sidle In A Sentence
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They raised a shout at him, until finally the old man, reluctantly and crabbedly, sidled over to join them.
The Gray Dawn
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She was pondering that, when the pretty woman who had taken her earbob sidled up to Wusamequin.
Spirited
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Peter quickly sidled in front of Marsh and stood to attention.
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Coby glanced at me out of the corner of his eye and sidled away a few inches.
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Amy moved in something between a death-row shuffle and a proud march as Hart sidled close to her, ears leveled with uncertainty.
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Tim sidled up/over to the girl sitting at the bar and asked if he could buy her a drink.
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She sidled up to me and whispered something in my ear.
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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
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Finally the research vessel began to sidle sideways towards us, using its bow thrusters to close the gap with Hsu Fu.
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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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Fed up and bored, Owen cast a furtive glance around the customs hall and then sidled over to Bret for a bit of a chat.
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This unusual posture again excited suspicion, and the animal sidled mincingly away.
To Build A Fire
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The city is filled with paintings, sculpture, mosaics, glasswork, ironwork, and an awesome number of architectural sidles that can keep you gawking for days.
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But the real danger is when someone whose name you can't remember sidles over and expects to be introduced to whoever you're talking to.
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Then a numpty, walkie-talkie jobsworth in a parka sidles up and tells me to shove off.
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There are three bars to sidle up to and pro circuit barmen who'll build you any cocktail fantasy from the daiquiri to the iced tea.
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And the juniors behind us, in looking forward to the same freedoms that we will soon be tasting, sidle up close and in a whisper ask the name of my OB.
Between Expectations
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I take advantage of this to sidle down the second counterscarp, but by the time the ditch is reached the lull reveals itself to be but the precursor of a storm.
A Changed Man
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To be doing something she began to sidle towards Deirdre - the slow, shaky steps that were the limit of her capability.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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Finally the research vessel began to sidle sideways towards us, using its bow thrusters to close the gap with Hsu Fu.
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When a couple of teenagers sidled up and asked him to autograph their citations for under-age drinking, he regarded it as an honour to oblige.
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Alvin slapped the door shut behind him with a backward scrape of his heel, to muffle the shouting from the neighbors, and sidled along the wall away from her.
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Even though he was fairly sure she couldn't touch him, he sidled to a side wall, trying to keep ahead of her.
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Whenever someone whips out an iPhone on the subway, I kind of sidle over as if pulled by some kind of magnetic force, and steal furtive glances over their shoulder at their p ...
PSFK
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Flipping onto my back, I then sidled underneath the larger of the two like an oversized remora.
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The Jag blocked the whole alleyway, barely leaving enough room for someone to sidle past it.
DEAD BEAT
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Although, if I were the carriers, I would be quick to sidle up to governments for a quid pro quo transaction — “we’ll give you free use of our network for municipal purposes if you get behind us in making the content providers pay their fairshare.”
The End of the Internet « Snarkmarket
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Little Johnny's late for school again, and sidles into the classroom just before lunch.
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There are three bars to sidle up to and pro circuit barmen who'll build you any cocktail fantasy from the daiquiri to the iced tea.
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Richard Gere sidles gracefully into the plush hotel suite, seemingly oblivious of the swarm of activity around him.
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Actually, here in Hollywood where almost everyone in a coffee shop has a laptop rather than a book, the fact that a woman is reading a book at all probably tells Bob everything he needs to know to sidle up beside her and strike up a conversation.
Allison Hill: Literary Seductions
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She continued to sidle at Mr Chuffey with looks of sharp hostility, and to defy him with many other ironical remarks, uttered in that low key which commonly denotes suppressed indignation; until the entrance of the teaboard, and a request from Mrs Jonas that she would make tea at a side – table for the party that had unexpectedly assembled, restored her to herself.
The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
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We spent three hours stoking the fire and drinking - admittedly no great hardship - till I eventually sidled down the hall while my friend stood by ready to enter the security code if I tripped the alarm.
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Kael sidled out the room, moving quickly past Mikah on his way out.
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She sidled out of the crowded room.
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A furtive local sidled up to me holding a pad and a ballpoint.
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Holland's voice is a remarkably supple instrument: her phrasing and the way she sidles up to notes is nearly miraculous.
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The early illusion of our beautiful slander took place, down in the Karelian pine needles, neither watched nor remarked upon by the passing animals, cryptic time, or police surveillance; back in the city, watching an arrest sidled me with fear.
Soviet
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Sara Sidle: Well, that's obvious, Hodges. If you were a miracle worker, you wouldn't be rude.
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Elsewhere, the delightful putt-putt sounds of fishing traffic off Vancouver Island sidle up alongside the Pärt and Ligeti and early Floyd influences.
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Tim sidled up/over to the girl sitting at the bar and asked if he could buy her a drink.
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As they rode, Miri's horse sidled sideways nervously away from Amniteri, and Miri tried vainly to rein him in.
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As soon as he was out of the room, he sidled against the wall, held his breath, and began to listen.
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No sooner was he seated than Lily sidled closer to him.
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A furtive local sidled up to me holding a pad and a ballpoint.
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This album is an interesting mix of symbol and story, solo effort and collaboration, though it continues Dar's gradual sidle towards a more mainstream sound.
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Her eyes sidled up to Herr Bormann, who was perusing his fork, with such intent that she wished she could unsay her words.
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Not getting the hint when they moved en-mass to the other side of the room, she sidled up to them again.
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Every herdsman and shepherd knows the danger to be apprehended from the inclination of some of either kind to "sidle" off from the plain and beaten track and pluck the green leaves of the laurel to their own destruction.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk
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A., 4-H, even Boy Scouts sidle up to a few doors and whisper a carol or two.
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I stretch out my finger and a brazen parakeet sidles onto it, inclining its head so I can gently stroke its chalk blue ruff, so downy tender that it feels almost moist.
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He then sidles brazenly up to Dusty and Recondo who are monkeying around with a GI Joe bike.
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Thralk sidled closer still and his double-jointed arms reached to embrace Sabriel's neck.
SABRIEL
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The Jag blocked the whole alleyway, barely leaving enough room for someone to sidle past it.
DEAD BEAT
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The shock of confronting this new and more tangi - ble figure jerked Slorg back into half-sanity and bro - ken words sidled from his lips.
Elric At The End of Time
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To be doing something she began to sidle towards Deirdre - the slow, shaky steps that were the limit of her capability.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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She sidled back onto the edge of the backseat, trying to give room for Matt's body to sleep comfortably.
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Tim sidled up/over to the girl sitting at the bar and asked if he could buy her a drink.
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I can see my husband riding the margins of the field, talking to his land steward, and I kick Arthur into a rolling canter and come up to him in a rush that makes his own horse sidle and curvet in the mud.
The Red Queen
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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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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
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He sidled past, trying to seem casual.
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You might get a tart calling over, ‘Hello Jack, how are you’ - that sort of thing - and sidle over alongside.
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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.
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Did they kind of sidle up to you and go, So, you're turning 50?
Yahoo! Sports - Top News
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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
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They sidled up to the guards, letting their cloaks loosen to let them get an eyeful.
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Shortly after my wife left for her evening walk, Zachery sidled up to me furtively.
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Afterwards one of them, a lisping seven-year-old by the name of Jimmy Poole, sidles up to him in his office and offers him a half-sucked gobstopper dug up from a fluff-filled corner of his pocket.
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People sidle up to you for advice and you tell them any old tosh and they go away happy.
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He sidled round and trod on someone else's foot.
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I dug it out of the gravel border as it began to sidle into the sidalceas.
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My friend, the one who has helped me come here, incorporates a do-si-do into her steps and moves to my left so that i can sidle closer to the gorgeous grass dancer coming up on the right.
This seems to be happening in a few places.
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To be doing something she began to sidle towards Deirdre - the slow, shaky steps that were the limit of her capability.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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The city is filled with paintings, sculpture, mosaics, glasswork, ironwork, and an awesome number of architectural sidles that can keep you gawking for days.
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As for the 1960s protesters, they have had to cool their rancors to remain on the national scene, and sidle toward "centrism" -- a centrism shaped more by my libertarian and conservative mentors than by their Saul Alinskys and Herbert Marcuses.
Four Decades of Conservative Journalism
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He was inquisitive and would sidle up to my mother on her towel and carefully remove each leaf.
Bird Cloud
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Tim sidled up/over to the girl sitting at the bar and asked if he could buy her a drink.
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The instinct that we all have he should face some sort of electoral process is unlikely to trouble the incanting Labour Droogs hereabouts about for but for ordinary working men like me, a sinister clerk does not sidle from the shadows and thereby become Caesar.
Archive 2007-07-01
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The Jag blocked the whole alleyway, barely leaving enough room for someone to sidle past it.
DEAD BEAT
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With a ping the shiny doors of the elevators slid open and Jude sidled inside.
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Collinge J, Sidle KCL, Meads J, et al. Molecular analysis of prion strain variation and the aetiology of ‘new variant’ CJD.
Mad-cow Disease
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Before she could obey, the dining room curtains were parted, and a black-clad little Jap butler sidled into the hallway, his jaw adroop, his beady eyes astare with terror, his hands washing each other with invisible soap-and-water.
Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story
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I have people come up to me all the time, kind of sidle up and nudge me in the ribs and say, hey, I hear you or see you on Imus -- I hear you on Imus, you know?
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Don Imus Discusses Campaign 2000 - August 11, 2000
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The young man began to sidle near the pretty girl sitting on the log
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Then Meljean gave her an appletini, Ilona sidled up with a chocolate martini, Jill nudged over some chocolate mousse (to go with the martini), and Patrice whispered that there was more where that came from.
Must Love Hellhounds & The Oddshots
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A waiter sidles up, but there is no way to communicate.
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Eventually a middle-aged man and his teenage son sidle up to the bar to drink the complimentary wine included with admission.
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Collinge J, Sidle KCL, Meads J, et al. Molecular analysis of prion strain variation and the aetiology of ‘new variant’ CJD.
Mad-cow Disease
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As you sidle up close you can hear voices swapping art world gossip, platitudes and dirt on various celebs, institutions and artists.
