What's the difference between sideways and sidling?

Sideways


Definition:

  • (adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That may sound familiar to Tottenham fans, who grew tired with their team’s aimless, sideways passing under André Villas-Boas.
  • (2) He just look sideways and for some reason it’s funny.” But Clement himself names Rhys Darby, aka the Conchords’ manager, Murray, who plays a werewolf in Shadows, as the funniest man he has ever worked with – even if he does appear in “too many ads”.
  • (3) In a sideways reference to his own description of investment banks as casinos, King acknowledged it is almost impossible to measure risk and for regulators to keep up.
  • (4) He exited the sand trap sideways, was ultimately left 8ft for par but missed to the left.
  • (5) He would have been knocking it all sideways.” Anarchy & Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, 1860-1960 is at the National Portrait Gallery , London, 16 October – 11 January.
  • (6) I remember the way I slid sideways through rows of desks, my arms crossed over my chest.
  • (7) Sometimes, it is because a senior minister will not accept the sideways shuffle that is envisaged for them, and sometimes it is simply because the prime minister loses his nerve.
  • (8) At most companies offering 6%, the dividend is under threat or going sideways.
  • (9) But when Davie went to BBC Worldwide, via a few months as acting director general, the job went to Helen Boaden , moved sideways out of BBC News last year in the wake of the Savile scandal.
  • (10) The role of retinal Müller cells in spatial buffering is considered quantitatively: both buffering to the tissue surface and buffering sideways through cell-to-cell connections.
  • (11) ), aggressive episodes (offensive sideways posture and attack bite) were significantly suppressed in a dose-dependent manner.
  • (12) In Adelaide we 'wet-set' our instruments, in Darwin we had small pre-packed trays which were set on trolleys sideways, and in Perth we had pre-sterilised boxes of instruments which we laid out on trolleys ourselves.
  • (13) Also, proper douching that directs liquid sideways, not toward the cervix, should further reduce risk, It is underscored that contraceptive efficacy is not an effectiveness rate, but a failure rate.
  • (14) It was easy to detect their frustration during the first half and there was no shortage of chuntering whenever the ball went sideways or back.
  • (15) I congratulated him on the upsurge in his fortunes, such as his sideways move from squeezing, baking and daubing his filthy and infantile clay urns into broadcasting on the prestigious Channel 4 network.
  • (16) In it two grown-up cherubs seem to be flying sideways.
  • (17) Johnson said the need to continue the austerity programme into the next parliament had been caused by George Osborne's decision to allow borrowing to rise while the economy has moved sideways over the past two years, rather than tighten policy further.
  • (18) The football administrator Brian Marwood, previously in charge of recruitment, has been moved sideways to become the managing director of the club's academy in a move overseen by City's new chief executive, Ferran Soriano, who worked with Begiristain at the Camp Nou.
  • (19) The sideways looks in predominantly white areas suggesting your presence there is beyond the norm.
  • (20) Direct sagittal CT was performed by placing the entire infant sideways and supine within the gantry after metrizamide was injected.

Sidling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sidle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Negative gearing sidles into positive territory in Coalition's 'open mind' Read more They say negative gearing helps keep renting affordable.
  • (2) When he arrived at the venue and was confronted by a motley horde of fans, tipped off by a tweet, instead of sidling in the back to pace about alone in a corridor, like a normal human would, Fry blithely faced the crowd, chatting and signing autographs.
  • (3) Every week, it seems, brings a new furore over corporations – Apple, Google, Facebook – sidling into the private sphere.
  • (4) After eight years of George W Bush – who, in comparison to the Potus in the pipeline, now seems a wit of Shakespearean scale – it has been a great relief for many American expats to feel proud of their president again: “Hey, that hip, sidling, intelligent guy at the podium?
  • (5) It is not just military officials and government scientists who look twice in their wing mirrors when they see a motorbike sidle up alongside them.
  • (6) As is usually the case, radicals on both sides are resorting to ever-more ludicrous rhetoric in a bid to fan the flames – all the while oblivious of the fact that customers are yawning, sidling off and notching up airmiles with less precarious rival carriers.
  • (7) Tory remainers are grimly determined not to let leavers sidle away too easily from campaign promises that Britain could have its cake and eat it, somehow enjoying the benefits of single-market membership while refusing freedom of movement.
  • (8) It was so packed that no one saw me and so we sidled quietly away to another spot on the terrace.
  • (9) This girl sidled up and said, “Oh my god, it’s you ... Kevin Bacon!” And all of us, went, AAAARRRRGH.
  • (10) Not really,” he started and then tailed off when a stranger sidled up to listen in on the conversation.
  • (11) In fact, I would have remained in the dark, had Max not sidled up to me and said: 'By the way, Carole, for the purposes of this article, Jo is my PA.' And then the girls from his office got drunk and told me what every tabloid diary writer and showbiz reporter in the country apparently knew.
  • (12) If I sidle in you can pretend you haven’t noticed.” About a week later she was fronting another bulletin when, at the beginning of the programme, the camera swung away from her again.
  • (13) Not really,” he started and then tailed off when a stranger sidled up to listen in on the conversation, perhaps wary of security agents or informers.
  • (14) Caitlyn Jenner sidles up and tells Randy that some people like the comfort of nostalgia and he ought to accept that; she then vomits Member Berry remains all over his face, and Randy, in a daze, agrees to watch the reboot again.
  • (15) That night in 1981, Jenkins said not a word, but when Hoyle senior (now 82) became Lord Hoyle, Lord Jenkins sidled up and said, "It's time we had a drink."
  • (16) Nick Spencer Emeritus professor of child health, University of Warwick • As a one-time Labour councillor in rural Lincolnshire, non-Conservatives would often sidle up and suggest “we should work together”.
  • (17) Whether smiling and gesticulating at Mandaric or sidling over to the press bench to chat and joke with reporters before the proceedings began, Redknapp remained jovial and relaxed for the majority of his time in court.
  • (18) The frequency of sidling and supplanting also varied significantly across hormone-treatment groups, with A + E males showing higher frequencies of these behaviors than other males.
  • (19) Later that day a couple of army medics sidled up and confided that they had just been called upon to revive a prisoner who was being interrogated in a basement by British troops.
  • (20) Believe it or not, there are still some men who give matte-look hair wax, sidling over to girls with a raised eyebrow, and owning their own home a swerve.

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