Crossword clues for sidling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sidle \Si"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sidled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sidling.] [From Side.]
To go or move with one side foremost; to move sidewise; as,
to sidle through a crowd or narrow opening.
--Swift.
He . . . then sidled close to the astonished girl.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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(alternative spelling of sideling English) adv. (alternative spelling of sideling English) Etymology 2
n. The motion of one who sidles. v
(present participle of sidle English)
Usage examples of "sidling".
She struck Yellowjacket with her quirt and sent him sidling past the wagon and the tricky Caroline, too stubborn to answer her dad when he called after her that she had better ride behind the load.
His eyes found Warth, who was sidling back and forth in great excitement and watching him with bright, knowing eyes.
A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up.
The Ion of Avaric turned his head and eyed the young man sidelong, sidling.
Sidling a wild glance at the menacing sea, Miss Daventry clung to the gunwale with the tenacity of a squid, then lunged toward the belowdecks ladderway.
They were taking their time, the pigs, swigging claret in La Maison Bordelaise while he was sidling round pavements with a hamburger.
Had Diegan not needed both hands to settle his sidling mount, he could have struck the prince in exasperation.
Walking, stumbling, sidling, Janice felt herself drowning as she pushed through wee mad clusters along the western shore of Jabberwocky, hysteria rising, building, surging until screaming became the only possible antidote.
He kept shuffling after Shaley, one hunched shoulder pushed forward, sidling a little.
He realized that his horse had been snorting and sidling, and he saw that Aylinn with Morna had caught up with him.
This sordid haggling out in the open air, Axmen sidling by with knowing Grins, Girls peering apprehensively 'round corners, popping up from bushes to blow me Kisses of encouragement, even Mr.
Then she added: ‘Petulia here works for Old Mother Blackcap, over in Sidling Without.
The man who'd spotted me drew gradually closer, pretending to read labels along the way, finally sidling in next to me at the counter, the living effigy of a cost accountant or tax lawyer, radiating his special grotesquerie, that of sane men leading normal lives.
Ariadne saw one of the attendants sidling along the wall toward where Pasiphae had been.
Sidling around behind him, watching to make sure she wasn't coming into his peripheral vision, she slipped into the turbolift car.