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

Especially this kind of bullying Rodgers is engaging in, where he slithers away from direct conflict with Kimmel — which he'd fail at — and instead petulantly tries to inflict harm from afar.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2024

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

He slithers up to a note, hits it, flails, recovers, oozes in the direction of another note.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood