Thesaurus results for SNAKED

snaked

verb

past tense of snake

as in lurked

to move about in a sly or secret manner snaking softly through the brush

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as in slid

to move slowly with the body close to the ground commandos snaking through the grass toward the house

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Recent Examples of snaked Demands for the exclusive event pins exceeded common sense and ventured into the absurd with haphazard lines that snaked through the convention center. — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2026 But the real action was in line for the Breen meet and greet, which snaked across the lobby of the Regal’s mezzanine level after the second screening. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 The historic flood that snaked its way through Central Indiana over the weekend shook the region, damaging homes, businesses and roads as portions of White River crested up to 24 feet. — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 16 Aug. 2026 At the Meijer gas station in Highland, several lines snaked through the parking lot and onto the main road on Wednesday. — Sara MacHi, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 Here, too, there were echoes of Keegan’s blissful early days, when queues snaked outside the stadium hours before kick-off and every victory felt like alchemy. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 30 July 2026 At the bus stop, there was a queue of chartered double-decker buses and a vast crowd, mostly men in blue business suits, snaked four times around the car park, waiting to board the vehicles. — David Szondy july 23, New Atlas, 23 July 2026 Food trucks reopened after the storm and long lines snaked around the vendor area. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026 The famous crack snaked through during its ringing at the funeral of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 and widened beyond repair in 1846 while marking George Washington’s birthday. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 June 2026

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Danger lurked in the shady groves of avocado trees that stretched on the mountainsides as far as the eye could see.

— Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2026
Rhetoric that had lurked in conspiracy-minded corners of the internet was now coming from the federal government itself.

— Eric Boodman, STAT, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of lurked

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The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims slid to 196,000, the fewest since mid-July and down from 206,000 the week before.

— Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Carter slid inside and Thibodeaux rushed from the edge on third-and-5 late in the first half.

— Dan Duggan, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of slid

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Suki, who had been with her new family only a few weeks, had crawled into an opening in an entertainment center cabinet and could not get out.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Every window of every building the bus crawled past opened a severe yearning in me, as though my life here had become abstract or theoretical.

— Hisham Matar, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of crawled

Verb

The snake, later identified as an approximately eight-foot-long Burmese python, had slithered beneath the floor of a wooden shed.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026
Laura stepped right into her body, felt a small resistance and then the give as the rival slithered, eagerly, into the air.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Definition of slithered

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