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
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
Gene slithers into that receptacle and arises from it, hands up and covered in slime, as Saul Goodman.
From Salon • Aug. 16, 2022
Dean Moran, opposite, eyes clenched, lips valving open as a cobra slithers out, a shiny cobra of half-digested toffee apple, candy floss, and three of Fryer Tuck's All-American Taste-Tastic Hot Dogs, highly recommended, writhing longer.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
