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snail

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verb

as in to drag
to move slowly the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles

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Recent Examples of snail
Noun
Snail Kite—The One-Snail Wonder The snail kite, a bird of prey native to the wetlands of Florida and parts of Latin America, is a textbook example of dietary specialization. Scott Travers, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 The bones were uncovered near a salt flat in the Anacleto Formation in northern Patagonia, Argentina and found among fossils of ancient snails, garfishes, crocodile relatives, clams, freshwater turtles, and other organisms. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2025
Verb
What can snail mucin do for your skin? Lacey Muinos, Health, 13 Feb. 2023 Davison and the scientists bred the lefty snails together, and over three years, nearly 15,000 eggs were hatched from four generations of snails, including Jeremy. Kristen Rogers, CNN, 2 June 2020 See All Example Sentences for snail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snail
Noun
  • The cowboy is able to put out the fire, but not before taking a slug.
    Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2025
  • What was the original basis for their slug of stock?
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • On the flip side, Jamal Murray dragged the Clippers for 43 points.
    Law Murray, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The officers then dragged Feliz out of his car, pulling his pants down and exposing his genitals in the process.
    Lourdes Rosado, New York Daily News, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Google’s index ballooned as its crawlers struggled to process this relentless deluge of pages.
    Ivan Guzenko, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • That gives him time to meet and chat with crawlers and learn about their book-reading habits.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Freya crawled on top of her, interrupting the seizure.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Continue to update your site with new, high-quality blogs, and search engines will more frequently crawl your site.
    Tonia Ryan, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Retired or not, the world’s greatest quarterback does not have the luxury to indulge in sequential action—one thing at a time is for slowpokes and losers.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 25 Jan. 2025
  • One group of 15 female rats, brighter in color than the rest, kept zooming past the others to make it into the houses first, making the rest of their furry colleagues look like slowpokes.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • His eyes dart to her as his thick mustache creeps up to reveal a half smile.
    Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 23 Apr. 2025
  • McGee, Sam, Knight, and Torres creep onto the ship and split into teams of two.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 22 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Antetokounmpo poked the ball away from Nembhard briefly and a scramble ensued, but the Pacers came up with the ball.
    Eric Nehm, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • Underneath, a dress in a nearly identical shade poked through slightly, and the actress paired her all-gray attire with black pumps and a matching purse — plus her signature blonde bob, of course.
    Bailey Richards, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Teams that pushed boundaries more than two decades ago would be considered laggards today.
    Christian Clark, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Yet, without embracing the risk of failure, companies risk becoming laggards in a fast-pacing market.
    Jessica Mendoza, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025

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“Snail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail. Accessed 4 May. 2025.

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