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
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
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
His little phosphor LED showed the dust snake slither where the copper cables had gone before him.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
"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
Once it has a plan in place, the 14-foot-long robot lowers its head, engages its 48 motors and slowly slithers forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
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
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
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
They spontaneously linked together to form chains that slithered through some obstacles and surrounded other objects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
He could sense her smugness as she slithered back to his desk, and he had to bite down on the corners of his mouth to kill his laughter.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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
On the slithering “Naraka,” a mass of voices come together in a chant while a dense tangle of electronics coil around them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
A driver had to make an unexpected stop on a Melbourne motorway after she looked down to find a deadly snake inside her car - and slithering up her leg.
From BBC ● Dec. 1, 2024
The giant adder was slithering closer with each passing second.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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