How to Use slither in a Sentence

slither

verb
Definition of slithernext
Synonyms for slithernext
  • The snake slithered through the garden.
  • He slithered his hand around her waist.
  • To get under the porch, I lay on my stomach and slithered like a snake.
  • She slithered quietly into the room.
  • The clip shows the snake attempting to slither through the air as the car speeds down the road.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • The cable slipped out of the socket at the bottom of the phone and slithered away from her and off the bed.
    — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The pain slithered into his life at age 12 and stayed day and night.
    — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
  • If the car floats for a few seconds, slither out the window.
    — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Just don’t linger on the plot holes, some of which are big enough for a sandworm to slither through.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The 3-foot-long, skinny brown snake slithered to the other side of the bedroom.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Video shows the snake slithering from a brick wall to the wooden door, through the key hole and down to the door's handle.
    — Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The video showed the reptile slithering out to sea, with its head above the water.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 13 May 2018
  • This complaint turned out to be a ? slithering down the road.
    — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 24 June 2019
  • The man and his wife pushed the snake away with a golf club and a shovel, but the snake only slithered beneath the steps.
    — Joe Marusak and Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The thing that slithered into our world was the size of a horse, but lower, longer, and leaner.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Of course, legless lizards didn’t just kick off their legs and slither away one day.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
  • But the gorilla is scared off when the snake begins to slither.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2021
  • Aestas slithered down from the tree and faced Ander, eyes wide.
    — cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The hatchling slithered in Ms. Siewe’s hands, around her fingers and wrist, up her arm, down her leg.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • This time, the law just couldn’t be ignored; it couldn’t be bent or broadened enough for Guyger to slither free.
    — Kirsten West Savali, Essence, 3 Oct. 2019
  • The lava moved down the hillside, slithered across a street and swallowed a Ford Mustang on the other side of the road.
    — Darran Simon, CNN, 7 May 2018
  • In the opening seconds of the fourth quarter, Green slithered the final 13 yards for what proved to be the final points.
    — Randy Jennings, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Young had two sacks and would have had a third had Peyton Ramsey not slithered out of his grasp.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland.com, 16 Sep. 2019
  • When the catcher took a closer look, the scaly body of a snake was slithering around the basket, between the toys and dolls, the video shows.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
  • Some have been known to slither over damp earth to reach inland waters.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Toya is halfway out the door just as Quad slithers her way into the party.
    — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But there are snakes in the grass, real ones, slithering closer and closer to the White House.
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2018
  • All are rendered with quick, slithering and slashing strokes of the brush.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Ryan botched the reward challenge with his awkward slither up the sand dunes.
    — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • Be warned, the film is not for the faint of heart with its oozing body cavities, slithering viscera, and firehose blasts of blood.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2024

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