slither

"It's incredibly hard to observe snakes in the wild before they slither away, so our knowledge about L. slashi is limited," says Ruane.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

A serpent might slither out during the winter if there’s a warm spell to get a bit of sunshine, said Greg Pauly, curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

Still, he held on to a slither of hope.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

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.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2025

I slither my legs inside it, then have to kind of crumple down—no way I can bend over.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

"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

Gene slithers into that receptacle and arises from it, hands up and covered in slime, as Saul Goodman.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2022

It slithers and moves around in the pit of my stomach, growing bigger and bigger.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Throughout the World Cup, the team slithered away from trouble again and again … until the final game.

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

It is thought the reptile had escaped from his owner's house in Bridlington and slithered inside a nearby car and was unknowingly transported up the coast to Scarborough.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

But she clipped the wall of the halfpipe halfway down the course and slithered to the base, losing a ski.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

Their wait came to an end Tuesday as a 2.4-mile section of the road known as “the Snake” slithered back to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

He had only beaten the air that slipped and slithered around him like smooth silk.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

The global rise in bond yields is like a boa constrictor squeezing the Budget maths, slowly and relentlessly, occasionally loosening its grip, but never actually slithering away entirely.

From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026

I caught the film at a recent matinee in New Orleans, and children and adults alike gasped at Harryhausen’s movie monsters – from the looming metal colossus of Telos to the hissing and slithering Hydra.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

On the slithering “Naraka,” a mass of voices come together in a chant while a dense tangle of electronics coil around them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

Even the opening credits, some written in slithering hair, seem to tremble out of either fear or ecstasy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026

One night when the lights were out and I could see a sliver of moon through the window, I heard a slithering noise on the floor.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls