What is "slinking"

Usage examples of "slinking".

Lobo checked the lengthened shadows and spotted the shabby creature slinking up the curving stone stairway.

By this time, of course, the imperialists will know who and what we are, from their slinking spies and cowardly reconnaissance aircraft.

Tupolev had been slinking about the Barents Sea like a fool while Marko had been heading the other way.

There was the serpent, meek as before the days of sin, and the leopard slinking to get among the legs of men, and the lion came trundling along in utter flabbiness, raising not his head.

The riders, spooked and uncertain, leave her for the slinking carrion-eaters.

I spent quite a bit of time hiding or slinking around to stay out of sight.

I watched him as he went slinking off toward the east, pausing now and again to look back over his shoulder at me.

He began slinking his hand toward her wrist and lower forearm, until she could no longer see her hand anymore.

He began releasing his hands from her upper body and torn clothing, slinking his touch down along the sides of her body, caressing and loving her breasts as he did so.

Then, slinking along the hedge, noiseless, unheard by my sleeping spaniel, I saw a tawny dog stealing by.

For in this savage, slinking shadow, I knew that I had beheld a manifestation of divinity no less than in the smile of the sky, each minute growing more starry.

Lal and I turned quickly to see what danger might be slinking upon us.

But it lets me just so close, shuffling through the crackly wrack of lath and plaster universes, before I can feel it slinking off after the star again.

Deathlands in packs, like mangy wolves, slinking into law-abiding villes and stealing food and supplies.

One was a short boy with a hesitant, slinking look and a furtive smile.