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slink - use in sentences
Preposition: behind
- shadow: You hide among the bushes, You fly with the air, You slink behind the shadows, But secretly you care.
Modifying Another Word
- away: We don't want any " hired hands " who can feed the sheep, but when the going gets tough, slink away.
- about: He was a friendly, gregarious soul, who used to slink about like an alley cat, rubbing himself up against people.
- just: Blimey... apologies for all of that... I'll just slink off back to my apocolyptic doom cult boards now.
Noun used with modifier
- riverside: For less than finishers in the riverside drive slinks.
- drive: For less than finishers in the riverside drive slinks.
Followed by a transitive particle
- down: Not that John needed a rope to slink down a slippery chimney en route to the elusive northern top!
- off: Just a quick update today before I slink off home.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- off: Luckily enough Bob followed us, he didnât slink off.
- around: And then I can paddle over to town nights, and slink around and pick up things I want.
- away: The first dog may let the newcomer take over a favorite chair and slink away for example.
- out: He slinks out from the shadow of the shed, Peers down, tail twitching, readying every claw.
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