slithering

Example Sentences

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Slithering along as deliberately as one of Vic’s snails, “Deep Water” runs hot and cold; it’s sometimes a self-aware hoot and sometimes a disjointed drag.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2022

Slithering through a crush of people on the dance floor to meet a friend or make a new one.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2021

Slithering through it, I nearly collided with an in-water photographer pointing his camera at me.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

Slithering over masses of cockroaches, the natives enter bat-infested limestone caves.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slithering the skinny dress over the doll’s head and arms and snapping the tiny fasteners was more than her chubby six-year-old fingers could manage.

From "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson