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

Shaking, I slink down, get my slide, and slither off the side of the stage and hide behind the riser legs.

From "Muffled" by Jennifer Gennari

"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

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

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2023

In it, a humanoid form slithers back and forth, its movements startlingly alien.

From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022

It releases its hold on the ship, and slithers back into the water.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

And while that last claim is somewhat breathless and overblown, the story told by Mr. Kerbaj teems with spies and spy catchers who could have slithered off the pages of John le Carré.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026

Huang sent the BBC a video from her village's WeChat group, which showed several residents looking alarmed as a large black snake slithered on their mud-covered floor.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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

She slithered for hundreds of feet in the unimaginable dark, an almost tangible darkness, blacker than night, blacker than closets with closed doors, blacker than closed eyes under bedsheets.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

But almost from the beginning, some people questioned whether a Gaboon viper really could be slithering through the Orange County city.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

Rattlesnakes do their best slithering in warm temperatures, specifically the high 70s to low 80s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

Len Ramirez of Auburn, Calif., gave readers a slithering surprise in his 2015 My Ride column, which was photographed by Max Whittaker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

That’s when they come, their long black tongues slithering up the outside of the glass, looking for a way in.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs