slithery
Example Sentences
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Roy Webb’s slithery bitonal chords and complex love theme are fully in tune with Hitchcock’s spy-romance story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
What better way to convey the ominous ambiance of your production than an image like the Statue of Liberty emitting a slithery tongue?
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2024
Then, hop back into the car for a side trip to the Bug and Reptile Museum, a small building with dozens of well-curated slithery things — snakes, insects, lizards and more.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
The slithery fish began to evolve into proficient hunters, and the new fossils hint that today’s bloodsucking species evolved from flesh-eating ancestors.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 31, 2023
With him was a man who was known only as Z. Mr. Trepid thought of Z as a shiftless man, slipping in and out of town like a slithery possum.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
