- 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
You stand stock-still until it quiets down and slithers on its way.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2023
It slithers its way uphill through an Edenic garden, dotted with apple and pomegranate trees, to the university library, repository of human knowledge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
When a cannibal spirit slithers out of the ocean, Gabe and his friends must find a way to stop it before it consumes their town’s ghosts along with any secrets they carry.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
The web locks us into place, staring at each other as the moon slithers across the sky and the stars fall asleep.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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