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Sidled

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.

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sidled

vb. (en-past of: sidle)

Usage examples of "sidled".

She wasn’t even sidled, and her fur looked somewhat ruffled, as if she was too annoyed to put it in order.

Fortunately the youngster was still sidled: allowing any watching station staff to view the spectacle of him being dragged down the platform by something that wasn’t there, Rhiow thought, would have produced some choice remarks from Har’lh later.

As it was, she needed to be sidled anyway, to avoid the many ehhif who were on the street this time of the evening.

An hour and a half later, they were standing on the air directly above the roof of Grand Central, maybe thirty stories up, sidled, and fairly close to the windows of the Grand Hyatt.

So was another figure, an ehhif, sidled as well: Tom Swale, Har’lh’s partner-Advisory.

For once Rhiow wasn’t concerned about whether she was sidled or not: the ehhif would have a lot of other things to pay attention to for the next few minutes, anyway, besides a couple of cats.

He was sidled, which was just as well, for the place was full of ehhif going about their business, and he was doing the usual shuffle to keep from being knocked off the platform.

As a terrified Nrrna sidled cautiously out the back flap, Kelly decided that if this wouldn't persuade the female, she'd have to think of some other plan.

Showing his long teeth in an ingratiating smile and wondering where the unseen watcher was concealed, he sidled purposefully toward another small device on top of a table studded with sparkling lights.

The tall nervous young man had sidled up to them without either noticing his approach.

Then Tirone relinquished it to his grasp, and Desdra sidled up to look.

If the runner-beasts tossed their heads, sidled and shied, it was because their riders communicated their fury and humiliation to them.

Black had sidled away from the saddlepack holding the reeking clothes.

He sidled closer to the group and, in the light of the glow baskets, recognized two as seaholders, a miner, a smith and an Igen holder.

He sidled, spooked, and twitched his ears constantly at the echoes of his own rattling hooves.