slither
Example Sentences
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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
Now we get the “Slow-Lows,” bottom-feeders who slither on the ground and survive off leftovers from other creatures: earthworms or other easy-to-catch prey.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
But a slither of fallopian tube was accidentally left, prompting an ovary regrowth only found in an unrelated ultrasound scan.
From BBC • Jul. 20, 2024
As for the snake-girls, Nhamo would have preferred them to slither off to someone else’s dream.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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