sidle
verb (used without object)
to move sideways or obliquely.
sidling
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present participleof sidle.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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Now it has transformed itself into tumbleweed proper, sidling and bouncing wherever the wind chooses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
There are dozens of courtrooms spread across Floors 12 and 14, and observers and petitioners will bustle in and out, sidling past flocks of press and squads of federal officers.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2025
“This is how politics used to be,” Democrat Harvey Englander said after sidling up to Republican Joel Fox.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2025
Desperate times call for desperate measures, so you find yourself sidling into a café.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2025
She deliberately assumed the bent-over posture of an old woman, sidling down the street.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
