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 sidewise out of the platform pack with Mrs. Hoover, he was driven to Union Station, entrained for New York amid a hearty little demonstration of admirers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slithering behind her, they sounded like an army of football players shuffling with sandpaper on their cleats.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan