snaked

past tense of snake

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of snaked Debates have raged in the busy industry program, standby ticket queues have snaked outside venues for the hottest premieres and the stars — in their droves — have been out in force and on major charm offensives, with distributors using the fest to launch both awards and release campaigns. Alex Ritman, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025 Tree roots and ivy creepers have also snaked through the stonework. Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025 The line snaked at least a half mile through Westgate and across north 95th Avenue to the west and north 93rd Avenue to the east. Rey Covarrubias Jr, AZCentral.com, 21 Sep. 2025 Lines of hundreds of guests snaked around the inside of the department store (which takes up an entire city block in Manhattan), with onlookers snapping photos quizzically. Anika Reed, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025 Lines snaked around every outside court, contrasting sharply with the ones only in use for practice, sparsely and quietly populated with players honing their skills for the bigger stages. Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025 Hundreds of energized voters snaked around Union Square on Sunday afternoon, as New Yorkers sought one of the limited Zohran Mamdani Scavenger Hunt cards at the first clue stop. Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Aug. 2025 The river snaked on into the next county, but the trail stopped near the highway. Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025 That sparked protests as the bill snaked slowly through the legislature. The Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snaked
Verb
  • The biopharmaceutical stock slid more than 5%.
    Scott Schnipper, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The broken glass happened because Mako couldn't stop himself while running on the hardwood floor and slid into the cabinet.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The terrain was steep and mountainous, the forests were thick, and threats from buffalo and leopards lurked in the wilderness.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Was Blass’s mental block a sign of what lurked on the other side of these quotidian failures?
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • In the quiet of the Sabbath morning when all the neighborhood was wrapped in slumber, some dastardly degenerate crept into the room, choked her to death, assaulted her criminally and left her bruised and bleeding body lying on the bed.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • But in Wyoming, where the number of men who hunt has crept ever-so-slowly down, participation by women has increased 30 percent in the past 10 years, helping to hold the line.
    Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Meanwhile, anyone who actually followed through on those long-ago threats to quit the NFL seems to have snuck back into the fold.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Charlie McAvoy came down from his right point spot and sneaked through a shot that goalie Akira Schmid could not handle.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • On a warm day in September, Schlink’s son crawled on the squishy, rubber surface of the large playground near their house.
    Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This time, of the five live roaches, the least shy sashayed across the floor in front of the cookline and crawled under a dining area table.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Earlier in the week at the Nobody Wants This season 2 premiere, Bell admitted that her upcoming anniversary slipped her mind.
    Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Having slipped the painting under his clothing, Peruggia escaped the building undetected and wasn’t caught for two years.
    Caitlin Danaher, CNN Money, 19 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In August, Kravitz told Meyers that her mom's pet snake, Orpheus, had gotten loose and slithered into a small hole in the corner of the bathroom.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Walton Goggins slithered into the 2025 Emmys with some apt nods to The White Lotus.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Sep. 2025

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“Snaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snaked. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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