Example Sentences

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First the buttons: thack-thack; then the lever: slank.

From Time Magazine Archive

German carp slank into his yard, began to feed upon the carrots, the asparagus.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rear was even worse, as men slank off from it at every opportunity.

From The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)

Dan. slank, a depression in the land, a hollow, O. N. slakki, Norse slakke.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

On this several new-made lords slank out of the room, which the king observing, told the marquess, “My lord, at this rate you will drive away all my nobility.”

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac