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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

“No gods down there, m’lord. Only rats and water snakes. White things, thick as your leg. Sometimes they slither up the steps and bite you in your sleep.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

"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

Especially this kind of bullying Rodgers is engaging in, where he slithers away from direct conflict with Kimmel — which he'd fail at — and instead petulantly tries to inflict harm from afar.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2024

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

He slithers up to a note, hits it, flails, recovers, oozes in the direction of another note.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

In “Modern Times,” the Little Tramp slithered through a factory’s giant gears.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 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

They spontaneously linked together to form chains that slithered through some obstacles and surrounded other objects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025

Then, fast as a serpent, it slithered for the steps and began to flow up them, toward her.

From "Coraline" by Neil Gaiman

I managed to hold it like that, balanced on the throttle, slithering and sidestepping, until I had to join the main straight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026

The promotional contents within tap into parents’ grief with a slithering sort of sympathy: “You want more time together . . . you’re not ready to forget.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Set against a slithering, seductive Chicago house beat, it’s really more of a command, one that the Queen of Pop immediately follows with another decree: “Come on, meet me on the dance floor.”

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 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

Many creatures sensed the approach of the slithering evil, or scented its dry, musty, deathlike odor.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques