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Example sentences for "sidled"

Lexicographically close words:
sidewise; siding; sidings; sidis; sidle; sidles; sidling; sido; sidus; sie
  1. She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand, and sidled a little nearer David.

  2. It seemed evident that the elephant was the host, and as David had been taught always to shake hands with his host when he went to a party, he sidled through the crowd of animals up to the throne.

  3. He carried a stout hickory club, and as the crowd hesitated old Hinch sidled his way to the edge of the walk and scrambled into his wagon.

  4. He would not enter the manse but sidled himself back to his wagon and drove away.

  5. As the man walked toward his horse which had sidled a few steps away the big cook gazed after him and fingered the riot gun regretfully.

  6. Calico had sidled off the plowing and was cropping the grass at the edge of it.

  7. Steelman sidled to the door and opened it cautiously.

  8. Steelman sidled over to the desk where he worked and sat down in front of it.

  9. He turned it gently, and sidled his face in, round the door.

  10. The man sidled off, and she continued, addressing the Colonel, "In the fifteen his father was one of us, and suffered worthily.

  11. I was edging out in the tail of the procession when Mr. Secretary, moved thereto by the Prince, sidled up to me, his sly eyes overrunning the outgoing chiefs as he came.

  12. He sidled back again with me behind him, wondering how far one fair kick would lift him.

  13. The man with the deformed shoulder and his companion were moving toward White-Eye when The Spider slipped through the doorway and sidled toward the middle of the room.

  14. The Spider sidled across to the reception-room and sat nervously fingering the arm of his chair.

  15. Almost immediately The Spider sidled across the hallway and entered the room.

  16. No, we didn't stretch our ears intentional, and if we sidled up under the cabin window it must have been because there was a couple of deck chairs spread out convenient.

  17. Meanwhile Mrs. Poskett had sidled casually along the railings, as if she were going nowhere in particular and didn't mind when she got there.

  18. Sir Peter and Mr. Brooke-Hoskyn both sidled up to Madame, while Mrs. Poskett stood utterly neglected and looked on with the air of an injured saint.

  19. The fat seaman was standing in front of the cage as she reached it, and regarding the bear with much satisfaction until Kate sidled up to him, and begged him, as a personal favour, to go in the cage and undo it.

  20. Bruiser," in a voice husky with emotion, as he sidled up to the mate.

  21. So, with the consent of Miaulis, they had for a whole day and night of almost dead calm edged and sidled up the gulf till they were in front of the Turkish fleet.

  22. Two days afterwards Tenedos rose from the north, but still no wind sprang up, and the Turkish fleet sidled and lumbered along with sails spread to catch the slightest breeze, but hanging all day idly.

  23. He seemed to have voiced the exact sentiments of the other two who had sidled up and with out-stretched necks were examining in the faint light the curve around Double-Trouble.

  24. Slowly and doggedly he sidled along like a disabled crab.

  25. The Lady of the Water sidled her head, as to note a familiar voice; and then drew him to a looped aperture.

  26. I could hear him growling under his breath in some strange language, while the horse sidled about as wicked as he could be.

  27. I could see Lord Grey examining a map, while his horse sidled about across the road.

  28. While I looked, a man sidled along the wharf from a warehouse towards me.

  29. Nine thousand Amsterdam Avenue was a drug store sidled in between a bakeshop that six days a week poured forth sweet hot breath, and an undertaking establishment with a white-satin infant's coffin de luxe tilted in the window.

  30. Now and again two or three sidled out, and if you had followed them you would have found that they went outside to listen hard into the darkness and to swear.

  31. Big James, who had now sidled grandiosely to the Smithers, and was fussing among the rollers in the rack.

  32. He sidled to me on his hams without attempting to rise, and held up a finger to me.

  33. Apache touched his horse, and it wheeled and sidled a little and threw up the dust, and then suddenly decided to accept this new master.

  34. She had him nearly sidled into the bathtub before he could escape with the cry of a hunted animal.

  35. Then Miss Straley sidled from the family pew to the aisle and marched up it and out of the church.

  36. Rosaline had sidled up so that her leg touched Andrews's leg along its whole length.

  37. In the truck on the way back to the mess the Kid, looking fresh and smiling among the sweating men, like ghosts from the white dust, talking hoarsely above the clatter of the truck, sidled up very close to Andrews.

  38. Then she went to the next hammock and the next and the next, until she had awakened all of the sleepers, whereupon, with deep bows and courtesies and murmurings, she sidled out of the room.

  39. The Mundurucu Indian sidled up close to Joe and stared at the glittering skin with all his eyes, but without attempting to touch it.

  40. He sidled around, dressing and fidgeting before he arranged to make his next remark.

  41. Along the ridgepole cautiously sidled the two men of the other company, dragging their hose.

  42. They raised a shout at him, until finally the old man, reluctantly and crabbedly, sidled over to join them.

  43. His door opened and a meek, mild little wisp of a man sidled in.

  44. The count turned his back in disgust, while the Jew sidled up to little Nina and muttered in Italian.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sidled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.