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"It's incredibly hard to observe snakes in the wild before they slither away, so our knowledge about L. slashi is limited," says Ruane.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

Still, he held on to a slither of hope.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

Now we get the “Slow-Lows,” bottom-feeders who slither on the ground and survive off leftovers from other creatures: earthworms or other easy-to-catch prey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

Behind them in the cavern the giant adder settled down to a leisurely slither, his tongue flickered wickedly.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

"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

Unbeknownst to us though, the real Chalamet, incognito in a mask and baseball hat, slithers through the crowd like an undetected chosen one, or like his character, Lisan al Gaib in “Dune.”

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024

You stand stock-still until it quiets down and slithers on its way.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2023

When a cannibal spirit slithers out of the ocean, Gabe and his friends must find a way to stop it before it consumes their town’s ghosts along with any secrets they carry.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

The web locks us into place, staring at each other as the moon slithers across the sky and the stars fall asleep.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

Their wait came to an end Tuesday as a 2.4-mile section of the road known as “the Snake” slithered back to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

Sometimes Amá stares at me like I’m some sort of mutant that slithered out of her body.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Officials issued the alert Monday after a man shared with police an image appearing to show the dangerous reptile slithering from the thin branch of a tree onto the roof of a backyard shed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But almost from the beginning, some people questioned whether a Gaboon viper really could be slithering through the Orange County city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I caught the film at a recent matinee in New Orleans, and children and adults alike gasped at Harryhausen’s movie monsters – from the looming metal colossus of Telos to the hissing and slithering Hydra.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

Half asleep, she reached out for her dog - and instead found herself petting a smooth, slithering object.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

When I dragged the crayon across the paper, it left a trail in its wake like a slithering blue snake.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate