slither
Example Sentences
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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
He slithered past her and moved ’round Penelope like a tiger circling its prey.
From Literature
After their snake handler’s docile specimen has an onset mishap, the real thing slithers into view.
From Los Angeles Times
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.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
