slithering

With an unblocked defender blowing up the play in the backfield, Herbert cut back to his left, slithering through the defense for a four-yard touchdown.

The border wall stretched out like a snake slithering up and down hills to the horizon.

But a snake slithering across the top step of the dugout when your team is trailing by six runs in the fifth inning of a National League Championship Series game?

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

I had saved his miserable life, and he was slithering out of the bargain.