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
You stand stock-still until it quiets down and slithers on its way.
From Slate • Aug. 19, 2023
In it, a humanoid form slithers back and forth, its movements startlingly alien.
From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022
The movement of life inside me slithers like a snake in the water.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2022
The dragon’s teeth part, and a long, lavender tongue slithers toward Jeanne.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
