(a.) To creep away meanly; to steal away; to sneak.
(a.) To miscarry; -- said of female beasts.
(v. t.) To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow that slinks her calf.
(a.) Produced prematurely; as, a slink calf.
(a.) Thin; lean.
(n.) The young of a beast brought forth prematurely, esp. a calf brought forth before its time.
(n.) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical symptoms were slinking between the 50th and 57th day of pregnancy and six-week serosanguinolent discharge or greenish gray mucoid discharge after the abortion and extensive hemorrhages and edemata under the skin of the aborted fetuses.
(2) I think the Australian public give you great credit for actually putting your money where your mouth is and not slinking away from the camp in the middle of the night hoping you won’t have to fight the battle.” Asked whether he was prepared to give ground on the funding cut, Pyne said: “I’m always prepared to talk about negotiation, always prepared to negotiate – whether it’s with Universities Australia, whether it’s with the crossbenchers.
(3) Maybe it’s a lack of confidence or having more doubts than normal, but the players have quality and need to bring more.” Sadio Mané scored a hat-trick in record time in the May victory and the winger created Southampton’s first chance here in the first minute, slinking past Leandro Bacuna before pulling a pass back to Dusan Tadic, who shot over from 12 yards.
(4) Female staff in pencil skirts slink past, clipboards in hand.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Victoria Beckham slinks away to applause from the audience.
(6) The owner’s sons would just slink off to their cabins leaving a few random women dotted around the yacht.
(7) Movie monsters have been steadily slinking back to the B-list depths from whence they came, hence the popularity of CGI splatter such as Sharknado , where we can be sure no real animals were harmed, because it’s clear none were used.
(8) Approaching Istanbul, 435 days after slinking into the sea in Gibraltar, the pair found the city’s tendrils reaching down the Thracian coast.
(9) But unlike the hundreds of coal plants and their noxious smokestacks being built in the country, the only danger linked to the solar panels are the snakes and scorpions that slink and scuttle between the sparse shrubs, posing a minor hazard to those who dust off the panels after dusk.
(10) Though I had heard a fence panel bang the previous evening as an animal vaulted over, I had failed to catch sight of the intruder slinking through the impenetrable shadow of my semi-wild garden.
(11) The first part is always optimistic, but about that second part he's not lying; a hypercharged Teddy Picker, from their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, merges seamlessly into the sultry carnival slink of Crying Lightning, with its dark and demonic mood swings, an example of how the band have matured into a sordid Lynchian lounge band with teeth.
(12) Somehow a policy slinked out – £700 for every taxpayer.
(13) Instead I slinked home, had a cup of tea on my own, stared out of the window and wondered – what now?
(14) More than six decades ago, travel writer Norman Lewis described the mutts of Mergui, a coastal city in the south, with unsparing vividness: “There are more dogs than humans; they are a slinking, evil breed, cursed with every conceivable affliction … Many were earless, partially blind and had paralysed or dislocated limbs.” For now, there is no killing – just breeding Ye Naung Thein The situation has not improved – and is arguably most acute in Yangon, the country’s rapidly developing commercial capital with a population of some five million.
(15) If there is anybody in the European Union who thinks that if we don’t do a deal with the European Union, if we don’t continue to work closely together, Britain will simply slink off as a wounded animal, that is not going to happen,” Hammond said.
(16) And it’s worth splashing out at Terra Nostra Garden Hotel at Furnas (doubles from €95) for the chance to slink out after dark for a private splash about in the bath-warm, camelia-bowered lake.
(17) That sense of guardedness is heightened by the constant presence of secret service agents hovering around her, and by the figure of Huma Abedin, her long-time aide, who has been constantly at her side since the White House and who slinks into an adjoining room while we are talking.
(18) Some governments are already slinking backward.” The defence ministers on Thursday are expected to decide on the quick establishment of small headquarters units in six countries – the three Baltic republics, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria.
(19) They trail 5-0 at the break in the World Cup semi-final and their players look absolutely traumatised as they slink back to the dressing room.
(20) On the northern edge of Cornwall , it's more "of the sea" than either of the other two; as the tide begins to move in, it slinks across the low retaining wall like net curtains slide across a hotel window.
Swink
Definition:
(v. i.) To labor; to toil; to salve.
(v. t.) To cause to toil or drudge; to tire or exhaust with labor.
(v. t.) To acquire by labor.
(n.) Labor; toil; drudgery.
Example Sentences:
(1) RI: Game Feel – Steve Swink Homo Ludens – Johan Huizinga Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals – Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman Understanding Comics – Scott McCloud As for videos: Juice It or Lose It , Say How You play , and anything on Game Talks .