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

He still has that elastic yogi’s body and can still slither across the baseline.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Still, he held on to a slither of hope.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

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

Maddie untangled the harness and let the pilot slither to the ground.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

"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

She imagines standing alone in a nondescript finished office basement as a giant snake slithers by.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

You stand stock-still until it quiets down and slithers on its way.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2023

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

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

Then, almost out of nowhere, replacement scrum-half George Horne slithered across the grass and into the corner, although Russell could not add the extras.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 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

The black snake silently uncoiled itself and slithered alongside.

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

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

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

In Guillermo Cienfuegos’ enlivening, if at times unsteady, production at A Noise Within, the role is played by Ann Noble, who forgoes the outdated hunchback but adopts a seething, slithering, perversely seductive aura of menace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

The eldest lion lifted its head to face the slithering threat.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2025

Anya watched Håkon flee, slithering as fast as he could go.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack