sidle
verb (used without object)
to move sideways or obliquely.
was sidling
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past progressiveof sidle.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The Wart’s heart was thumping, and now the Colonel was sidling toward him along the perch.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
But the whole square was sidling slowly away from the gorge, pushed back by the pressure at the shattered corner.
From The Green Flag by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
And indeed, Bentley's mare was sidling and dancing in a manner that would seem to lend truth to the words.
From The Honourable Mr. Tawnish by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock
A gaily decorated old rooster, a fowl with a dissipated and immoral swagger and a knowing, devil-may-care tilt of the head, was sidling off to the left.
From Fair Harbor by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
And Patrick, though he was sidling and side-stepping with the awkwardness of a cat on wet ice, still retained his Celtic self-possession.
From Money Magic A Novel by Hamlin Garland
