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Recent Examples of slither
That freed up Podz — an exceptional slasher with a strong feel for the game off-ball — to slither into all the spaces the defense left exposed.
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
Even the opening credits, some written in slithering hair, seem to tremble out of either fear or ecstasy.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
And then, with Barnes out of the game due to an ankle injury, Ingram slithered his way to a layup and helped force a Jusuf Nurkic miss on the other end to help put the game away in the fourth.
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
But best are moonless nights, when shimmering whorls of the Milky Way fill the night and desert creatures emerge to crawl and slither the dunes.
—Anna Zacharias, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026
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Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
Even the opening credits, some written in slithering hair, seem to tremble out of either fear or ecstasy.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 11 Feb. 2026
And then, with Barnes out of the game due to an ankle injury, Ingram slithered his way to a layup and helped force a Jusuf Nurkic miss on the other end to help put the game away in the fourth.
—Eric Koreen, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
But best are moonless nights, when shimmering whorls of the Milky Way fill the night and desert creatures emerge to crawl and slither the dunes.
—Anna Zacharias, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slither
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Boca Raton’s civic engagement Steady lines of voters snaked around some of the city’s polling sites throughout Tuesday.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Mar. 2026
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The team became the spectacle of Havana, with Maduro’s Gran Stadium filling with the sound of pounding drums and a conga line snaking through the crowd, as baseball felt more like a festival than a game.—
Tyler Carmona,
Miami Herald,
11 Mar. 2026
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Hanson, who spends much of his life crawling through underbrush to count trees, plunged ahead into stands of chest-high ceanothus, pointing out sequoias camouflaged in the pervasive post-fire brush.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Related groups of animals, such as the ancestors of today’s millipedes, crawled out of the sea a bit earlier than insects did.—
Andrew Coletti,
Popular Science,
12 Mar. 2026
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Joseph also responded to worries about facial recognition and other surveillance technologies creeping into the system by emphasizing the cameras used in San Jose only record vehicles’ license plates.—
Robert Salonga,
Mercury News,
10 Mar. 2026
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That familiar feeling of fullness crept in.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Asian shares slide in a volatile session.—
Nasteho Said,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
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Eight-foot glass doors slide open to the coastline.—
Angela Tafoya,
Vogue,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Slither.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slither. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.
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