sluing
- present participle of slue.
Example Sentences
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There was no sudden sluing of the needle, due to an amateurish device which Cleigh himself had constructed.
From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
As we looked, suddenly an armoured automobile appeared around the corner of the Mikhailovsky, its guns sluing this way and that.
From Ten Days That Shook the World by Reed, John
In me the caresser of life wherever moving, backward as well as forward sluing, To niches aside and junior bending, not a person or object missing, Absorbing all to myself and for this song.
From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt
The tragic beauty of his face and the pitiable, sluing, lurching stride!
From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
There he stood—the man with the sluing walk!
From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)
