slither
Example Sentences
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After their snake handler’s docile specimen has an onset mishap, the real thing slithers into view.
From Los Angeles Times
They spontaneously linked together to form chains that slithered through some obstacles and surrounded other objects.
Mystified, he wanders the dank halls of their rented palazzo and the fetid alleyways of the “pestilential city” where canal waters slither past like “a fat, grey-green worm.”
Early on, there’s a wedding scene when David thinks he’s fumbled it with Sarah and he stands on the sidelines of the dance floor watching her slither up to some other guy.
From Los Angeles Times
The eldest lion lifted its head to face the slithering threat.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
