| She silently made her way past the bookshelves to Dymion's room, slinking along quietly. |
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| They moved like cats downhill, slinking in the shadows like natural-born predators, breathing in the dust and death. |
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| She turned to face him again as he took a step forward, slinking forward like a wolf toward cornered prey. |
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| Something moved there now, no longer slinking but charging towards him through the sea of fire that the field had become. |
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| Nine missions find the stealthy super-spy slinking and scrolling from side to side across the globe. |
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| Slowly slinking against the wall, she quietly made her way to the door that came off the entryway. |
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| I followed him back into the woods, slinking away as only a true hunter could. |
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| I like to think it was a part of me that hovered there, lost and afraid, alien and lonely, slinking after my retreating steps. |
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| These songs belong in a smoky speakeasy, slinking along the walls, chain smoking and breaking hearts. |
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| Suddenly I could appreciate the position of all those slinking spendthrifts I had rented from over the years. |
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| Carolyn Jones was wonderful as his darkly mysterious and sexy wife Morticia, slinking around in her figure-hugging, full-length black dress. |
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| Usually, I just turn to the BBC World Service for diversion, eventually slinking back to National or Concert. |
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| And with that she was gone, gliding out the door like a cat slinking away after a successful kill. |
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| So go he does, turning on his heel and slinking out with the cringe of a dog that's been kicked one too many times. |
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| A greedy otter has left a Preston grandfather scratching his head for a solution to stop the animal slinking into his pond to eat his fish. |
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| I'm slinking along the bottom like an eel, trying to see how long I can stay under before I need to surface. |
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| While the others slept peacefully, I was slinking and skulking around in the dark. |
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| They moved on, slinking through the slimy, black tunnels, trying hard not to think or display any emotion. |
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| So whenever we try talking we're either like two magnets slinking closer, and then pinging away from each other, or like an engine revving out of gear. |
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| Worryingly, some of the foreign investors who had rushed to take stakes in Chinese banks are slinking away. |
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| It's that first sly whiff of tobacco on the air, the steel-blue smoke slinking seductively across a shaft of light, the embers glowing brightly as a smoker draws in. |
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| The Ghost of Christmas Passed came calling today, sending pinecones packing and stockings slinking into the Rubbermaid bins from whence they came. |
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| They kept to the shadows, slinking along beneath a dusty shelf of rock. |
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| But America cannot fix any of these mistakes by folding its tents and slinking home to a grumpy isolation. |
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| Members of Kent County Council initially bristled at the idea of London-run lines slinking through their county. |
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| Maybe, who always wore stiletto heals and whit eyeliner around her bright blue eyes, she made me think of a kitty cat, slinking around in silk dresses and purring her hellos. |
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| In one of the last letters written to his brother, Vincent enclosed a sketch of the painting, which shows a cat slinking across the lawn. |
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| There is a superb slinking guitar solo from Lamine Faye and Cheikh's trademark harmony vocals open up the chorus. |
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| If anyone can talk Muammar Gaddafi into slinking away from Libya, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says it's him. |
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| The dark-haired child gave way to her sister's commands, slinking to the base of the stone pedestal that would be make-believed into a high and impenetrable lair. |
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| No one much noticed Elanor slinking in quietly, but a sullen man in the corner pulled up and stared, moving across the ballroom floor like a man possessed. |
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| She would feel ridiculous slinking around in clinging lame dresses and teeteringly high heels, playing the seductress. |
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| What is pathetic are some of these pedantic, professorial, preaching or pseudo-intellectual remarks and then slinking out of the chamber, but I digress. |
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| The Prime Minister just sits there with every question, slinking lower into his seat, deeper into his papers, hoping it will all go away. Well, it is not going away. |
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| There are maybe 50 or 60 students in this outdoor classroom that is surrounded by wooden work benches, scaffolding, ladders, and the occasional cat slinking by at the back of the class. |
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| A LESSER autocrat would be slinking towards the exit by now. |
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| In its presence, a subservient animal cowers on the ground with its ears back or stands with its tail between its legs, maintaining a slinking posture. |
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| On 72 minutes, the dazzling Marta seemed to have found a way through, but after jinking and slinking her way into the penalty area, Solo made an outstanding reflex save at the near post to keep the scores level. |
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| For the socialists, he is a muddle-minded liberal compromiser, slinking away from the real fight. |
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| He still looks wonderfully young, despite his awkward, shuffling, slinking walk, and his stooped shoulders. |
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| Judging from all those smoke-eyed sexpots slinking down the catwalk in head-to-toe noir, this season the new black is, er, black. |
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