snaked

verb

past tense of snake
1
as in lurked
to move about in a sly or secret manner snaking softly through the brush

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2
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 The line snaked down 43rd Street, around the corner past the Steinway piano store, and then back up to 44th Street. — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026 The queue snaked along the block and snaked around the next-door parking lot. — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026 The queue outside of the auditorium snaked nearly 200 people long. — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 30 Oct. 2026 On a recent Tuesday in October, about 50 people were in a line that snaked around the lobby of the Public Theater in Manhattan. — Mariah Kreutter, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2026 Long lines of vehicles snaked outside gas stations across Indonesia’s resort island of Bali this week after fuel deliveries were disrupted by a combination of technical problems, bad weather and surging demand, officials said Wednesday. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 At Yohji Yamamoto, a long strand of eyelashes cascaded down from a model’s lower eyelid and snaked against her face. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snaked
  1. lurked
  2. slid
  3. sneaked
  4. crept
  5. slipped
  6. crawled
  7. slithered
Verb
  • In the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, on the morning of March 11, 2013, something lurked just below the surface of a young Afghan man, a boy, really.
    — Ron Farina, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
  • Like fossils of prehistoric life, the evidence of all these past relationships lurked in the debris of our Connecticut household.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of lurked
Verb
  • The online booking company slid more than 13% after issuing mostly weaker-than-expected guidance for the current quarter.
    — Sarah Min, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026
  • Elon Musk’s companies SpaceX and Tesla each slid around 10%, largely in response to the midterm results.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of slid
Verb
  • Somewhere in New York, Chinese spies snuck in too-thick ballot paper.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Boise State snuck into the final spot of the rankings with an overall record of 7-1 and an unblemished 4-0 record in Pac-12 play.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of sneaked
Verb
  • For months now, so much vitriol crept into our TVs, interrupting the Bears or your favorite college football team with a special message from a super PAC or a partisan looking to score points by smearing their opponents.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026
  • LePage’s decision to spend more time in Florida after leaving the governor’s mansion has also crept into the consideration of at least some voters following a drumbeat of attacks by Dunlap.
    — David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of crept
Verb
  • An early 1990s recession clobbered Nasdaq, but home prices slipped only modestly, down 1% annually.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026
  • The observation comes after the Nasdaq Composite slipped earlier this week, as losses in Nvidia led tech stocks lower.
    — Liz Napolitano,Hugh Leask,Lee Ying Shan,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 10 Nov. 2026
Definition of slipped
Verb
  • This year has both flown past and also crawled along at a snail’s pace.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The lawsuit says Brave crawled and copied content from more than 30 billion webpages in its index without identifying itself or providing the owners of websites any mechanism to block its crawler, according to the newspapers’ complaint.
    — Molly Crane Newman, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of crawled
Verb
  • Python, in particular, slithered into several of our favorite looks, as seen on this showgoer with a distressed leather jacket, croc-effect leather skirt, and roomy Miu Miu tote.
    — Laura Jackson, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Saint Laurent‘s shining gold shoes slithered down the spring 2027 runway on Tuesday to become the talk of Paris Fashion Week, with sculptural snake heels among the collection’s standout footwear.
    — Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of slithered

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“Snaked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snaked. Accessed 12 Nov. 2026.

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