slither

An unseasonable weather pattern that included heavy rain and sweltering heat served as a signal for rattlesnakes to slither out of their underground winter burrows in search of food and mates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026

Families and astronomers gathered at a site known locally as "top of the world" on Gaisby Lane, Shipley, to try to see a slither of the new crescent moon.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026

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

In it, long black canoes slither like alligators, navigating themselves gracefully on the water.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

"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

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

When a cannibal spirit slithers out of the ocean, Gabe and his friends must find a way to stop it before it consumes their town’s ghosts along with any secrets they carry.

From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022

The dragon’s teeth part, and a long, lavender tongue slithers toward Jeanne.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

Their wait came to an end Tuesday as a 2.4-mile section of the road known as “the Snake” slithered back to life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2025

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 adder, poisonous and silent as the Devil himself, slithered in through the space between the thin wooden door and the mud floor.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 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

Much of the town’s reaction was predictable: “Big city evil has been slithering into Granbury,” said one post on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

An apple slithering through Flatland would appear first as a point and then as progressively larger, roughly circular slices.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan