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
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
It slithers and moves around in the pit of my stomach, growing bigger and bigger.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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