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Recent Examples of slithering
Sáez warned residents not to touch the slithering creatures, even with gloves.
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Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The video shows a slithering mass of babies and mom on a sunny day in the gardens in Ann Arbor Township.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 20 Aug. 2025
More recently, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour involved 70,000 wristbands pulsing in unison, and stage sets transforming from slithering snakes to whimsical fairy-tale forests to cinematic cityscapes.
—Lindsay A. Fleming, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
By the time South Park depicted Kristi Noem’s molten face slithering across the Mar-a-Lago ballroom last night, the long-running Comedy Central cartoon had reestablished itself — temporarily, at least — as a cultural flashpoint.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
Employees of a store in the Aloha State were in for a slithering surprise after a two-foot snake was found inside a shipping container of Christmas trees sent to the island.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2024
The border wall stretched out like a snake slithering up and down hills to the horizon.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Then, as Claire looks into the eyes of a coyote and senses chaotic energies rising within her, the hum gravitates downward, with double-basses and piano slithering across the classically diabolical interval of the tritone.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
The video shows a slithering mass of babies and mom on a sunny day in the gardens in Ann Arbor Township.
—Darcie Moran, Freep.com, 20 Aug. 2025
More recently, Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour involved 70,000 wristbands pulsing in unison, and stage sets transforming from slithering snakes to whimsical fairy-tale forests to cinematic cityscapes.
—Lindsay A. Fleming, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
By the time South Park depicted Kristi Noem’s molten face slithering across the Mar-a-Lago ballroom last night, the long-running Comedy Central cartoon had reestablished itself — temporarily, at least — as a cultural flashpoint.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
Employees of a store in the Aloha State were in for a slithering surprise after a two-foot snake was found inside a shipping container of Christmas trees sent to the island.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 22 Nov. 2024
The border wall stretched out like a snake slithering up and down hills to the horizon.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
Then, as Claire looks into the eyes of a coyote and senses chaotic energies rising within her, the hum gravitates downward, with double-basses and piano slithering across the classically diabolical interval of the tritone.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slithering
Verb
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The feelings of postpartum depression — despair, guilt, shame and worthlessness — began creeping in.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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With trigger-warning culture on the wane and a brutish permissiveness creeping back into society, corporate scolds have lost much of their power.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The centipede the Redditor found crawling in her bed.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Aug. 2025
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My death was supposed to be crawling up inside of the locker that the cat used to go in.—
Matthew Jacobs,
Vulture,
26 Aug. 2025
Verb
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In the early 1990s, after being dropped from RCA Records at age 39, Crow bought 10 acres of rolling pastures above the snaking West Harpeth River in Franklin, Tennessee, for $175,000, according to the Wall Street Journal.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
15 Aug. 2025
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Brea and La Habra move into a snaking district in Los Angeles County centered on Downey.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
15 Aug. 2025
Verb
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In recent weeks grosses for the show have slipped considerably, with the weekly take at the end of August sliding to an unsustainable $505,142.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
7 Sep. 2025
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Last year at Monza, Red Bull struggled with balance, with the car sliding at times.—
Kanzah Maktoum,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Slithering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slithering. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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