- present tense form of slither (3rd person singular).
slithers
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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
After their snake handler’s docile specimen has an onset mishap, the real thing slithers into view.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2025
Unbeknownst to us though, the real Chalamet, incognito in a mask and baseball hat, slithers through the crowd like an undetected chosen one, or like his character, Lisan al Gaib in “Dune.”
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
You stand stock-still until it quiets down and slithers on its way.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2023
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
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