slithers
Example Sentences
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"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
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 dragon’s teeth part, and a long, lavender tongue slithers toward Jeanne.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
