sidling
- present participle of sidle.
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
McCarthy denied sidling up to Burchett and elbowing him in the kidney, just as he denied the "Trump's not eating" story.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2023
Ethan Garbers looks so young, so innocent, as if he should be sidling up to the Rose Bowl concession stand for cotton candy instead of throwing passes on the field.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2021
Martin asks, sidling up beside me against the wall.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
