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Example sentences for "sidle"

Lexicographically close words:
sideways; sidewise; siding; sidings; sidis; sidled; sidles; sidling; sido; sidus
  1. And every now and then a Forsyte would come up, sidle round, and take a look at him.

  2. At times they would fly up into a tree and sidle along the limbs like little parrots.

  3. Sometimes in the trees they would sidle along the limbs exactly as a parrot does along its perch.

  4. The "horseman" squeezes his horse by pressure of the calves into his bridle, his horse like the former horse seeing the target tries to turn his head towards it and to sidle away from it.

  5. The men stopped and two of them started to sidle in front of two others, but Hopalong was not there for the purpose of permitting a move that would screen any gun play and he stopped the game with a warning shout.

  6. Did they sidle in by companies or squads?

  7. When he saw his young friend sidle over to him he smiled and nodded a hearty welcome.

  8. The eleventh is a new hole, when we sidle along the railway; and then we drive out to sea once more at the 'Fox.

  9. Phil, who has started from his chair and unaccountably begun to sidle away.

  10. I let him sidle in and out of the house, and I laughed.

  11. Even after he came back and would sidle up to my bedside in his old fawning style, I couldn't bring myself to take him seriously, and I was only amused.

  12. She would approach a little, and then, as the stiff, aristocratic decoys made no sign of welcome or recognition, she would sidle off again.

  13. Our Cells A string of young ducklings as they sidle along through grass beside a ditch--how like they are to a single serpent!

  14. Well, very shortly I shall have to sidle up to Tom and break the news to him.

  15. I couldn't say," he replied, beginning to sidle round the bench.

  16. They sidle past Ivy, and also sit down under the window.

  17. Realizing that if one of them became courageous enough to make a snap at my legs, all might follow his example, I began to sidle out of the middle of the street, intending to leap a fence close by and take refuge in a house.

  18. For a moment he stuck motionless, then he began to sidle round and up the trunk.

  19. Hat in hand, he started to sidle to a chair.

  20. He plumped whisky and bucket on the ground beside Hazel and then began to sidle casually toward the house.

  21. Brer Rabbit, he git crossways de road, he did, en he sorter sidle todes um.

  22. The bait took as I wished it, and after getting her to sidle and wriggle into the middle of the hut, I did as I promised, and then took her dimensions as noted below.

  23. The press in front of us gradually melted away, we were able to sidle into the roadway, reform ranks and tramp on Romewards.

  24. I taught him all the niceties of obedience acclaimed in perfect parade horses till he would stand, sidle, back, sidle diagonally, curvet and execute all the show-steps promptly at the signalling touch or sound.

  25. You long to see him, and sidle up softly a step or two; but your mother's ear has caught the sound, and she beckons you to her, and folds you again in her embrace.

  26. Try to stare the Great Stone Face out of countenance if you wish, but when a skunk begins to sidle toward you, do not try to stare him out of the path; just sidle in the direction he sidles, and sidle as fast as you can.

  27. Fillmore heaved a sigh of relief and began to sidle from the room.

  28. I hang around and sidle up to the customers when they come in, and say, "Chawming weather, moddom!

  29. True as a book, there she did cum, and begun tu sidle and whirl, and cut up her crancums all over agin.

  30. If they sidle up, I can't help sidling too if I died; and when them black eyes fall flash on me, I wilt right down under 'em as cut grass in Weathersfield on a hot summer day.

  31. Starers of infirm purpose would occasionally detach themselves from the throng and sidle away, ashamed of their fickleness.

  32. She was caught in the crowd as in the current of a stream, and when she tried to sidle out of it into a square, a row of smiling policemen barred her passage; she was a part of the traffic that they had to regulate.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sidle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amble; ascend; avert; bank; barge; bundle; cant; careen; climb; clump; crawl; creep; decline; descend; dip; drag; droop; drop; edge; fall; flounce; foot; gait; gallop; glance; grade; grovel; halt; hitch; hobble; hop; inch; incline; jib; jolt; jump; keel; lateral; lean; limp; list; lumber; lunge; lurch; mince; pace; pad; paddle; peg; pitch; plod; prance; prowl; rack; rake; retreat; rise; roll; saunter; scramble; scuffle; scuttle; shamble; shelve; shuffle; shunt; shy; side; sidestep; sidetrack; sidle; skew; skid; skip; slant; slink; slither; slope; slouch; slowness; snake; sneak; stagger; stalk; stamp; steal; step; stomp; straddle; straggle; stride; stroll; strut; stump; swag; swagger; sway; swing; switch; tilt; tip; tiptoe; toddle; totter; tread; trip; trot; trudge; uprise; veer; velocity; waddle; walk; wiggle; wobble; worm