Sentence examples for slinking back to from inspiring English sources

Slinking back to his Dodge, Marlin resembled a scolded child who had been caught pilfering cookies.

Most of them are scrambling for work in the remaining "new economy" companies or slinking back to Microsoft.

In a little over a month, Ms Rice will be slinking back to her old job at California's Stanford University, where an uncertain welcome awaits her.

George W. Bush, meanwhile, is slinking back to Texas with such low ratings that we forget that he made his own run at Presidential greatness.

Slinking back to his Jewish family members in Paris, Reuben finds them noisily weathering imminent divorce (his sister), a long-term affair (his father) and general emotional instability (his asthmatic mother).

You might think the humiliation of slinking back to return the stuff the next day (actually, to avoid the clerk I skulked to another Bloomingdale's in a different town) would have jettisoned further experimentation.

Others slunk back to Maiduguri.

Wetherell slinked back to London in disgrace.

Mortified, Mr. Tynan slunk back to the kitchen.

I slunk back to the Media Center beneath the stadium.

Eventually, exhausted, she slunk back to her teen-age bedroom.