slither

He slithered past her and moved ’round Penelope like a tiger circling its prey.

After their snake handler’s docile specimen has an onset mishap, the real thing slithers into view.

They spontaneously linked together to form chains that slithered through some obstacles and surrounded other objects.

Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”

Early on, there’s a wedding scene when David thinks he’s fumbled it with Sarah and he stands on the sidelines of the dance floor watching her slither up to some other guy.