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"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

A serpent might slither out during the winter if there’s a warm spell to get a bit of sunshine, said Greg Pauly, curator of herpetology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026

Still, he held on to a slither of hope.

From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026

Droplets of sweat slither down my neck and into my T-shirt.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

"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

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

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

The Director slithers out from behind them, glaring at me—his suit wrinkled, his face beet-red.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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

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

Once while working in the fields, a black mamba snake slithered over his foot and prepared to strike.

From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba

The “coastally trapped” aquatic pulse has been slithering up the coast for weeks, fascinating scientists and weather watchers as it marched across the equatorial Pacific before splitting upon hitting the coast of Peru.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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

Half asleep, she reached out for her dog - and instead found herself petting a smooth, slithering object.

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 2026

But then whispers filled the corridor, slithering off the walls.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas