slither
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He still has that elastic yogi’s body and can still slither across the baseline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
A serpent might slither out during the winter if there’s a warm spell to get a bit of sunshine, said Greg Pauly, curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
Still, he held on to a slither of hope.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
But he could have given himself a slither of a chance, despite the difficult position he was in by leading at the start.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025
"Well, you make a pretty good lizard, Sam. Why don't you slither downstairs and eat some insects? That's what lizards do. Go out in the yard and find a nice juicy caterpillar for lunch, okay?"
From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry
"You take multiple pictures, sometimes over 100 and it takes tiny little slithers of focus, and then you put all those into software, and that creates your final image."
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
She imagines standing alone in a nondescript finished office basement as a giant snake slithers by.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024
You stand stock-still until it quiets down and slithers on its way.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2023
The movement of life inside me slithers like a snake in the water.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2022
It releases its hold on the ship, and slithers back into the water.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
Throughout the World Cup, the team slithered away from trouble again and again … until the final game.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Huang sent the BBC a video from her village's WeChat group, which showed several residents looking alarmed as a large black snake slithered on their mud-covered floor.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
But she clipped the wall of the halfpipe halfway down the course and slithered to the base, losing a ski.
From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026
They spontaneously linked together to form chains that slithered through some obstacles and surrounded other objects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Her voice slithered under the noise of the crowd.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
The promotional contents within tap into parents’ grief with a slithering sort of sympathy: “You want more time together . . . you’re not ready to forget.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
Set against a slithering, seductive Chicago house beat, it’s really more of a command, one that the Queen of Pop immediately follows with another decree: “Come on, meet me on the dance floor.”
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Even the opening credits, some written in slithering hair, seem to tremble out of either fear or ecstasy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
Half asleep, she reached out for her dog - and instead found herself petting a smooth, slithering object.
From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026
The ground is covered with leaves and branches, so I cannot see what’s slithering beneath them.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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