- present tense form of slither (3rd person singular).
slithers
Example Sentences
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"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
In it, a humanoid form slithers back and forth, its movements startlingly alien.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
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
He slithers up to a note, hits it, flails, recovers, oozes in the direction of another note.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
