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Recent Examples of slither
Follow our step-by-step guide to craft your own shimmery, slithering creatures.
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Beverly Rivers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2024
Murray created separation for an 8-foot teardrop with 52.2 seconds left to take a 125-124 lead; assisted Jokic’s only made 3-pointer of the night with 30 seconds left to reclaim a 128-127 advantage; then slithered around a Jokic screen on the last possession to get to his step-back.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 17 Dec. 2024
Your recruiting violations involve laundered money, strip clubs, escorts, luxury SUVs and a booster named Scabby who slithers around sticky towny bars.
—Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
The players were randomly divided into three teams and then had to slither up and down sand with their arms and legs bound while pushing a ball with their head and shoulder.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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Beverly Rivers, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2024
Murray created separation for an 8-foot teardrop with 52.2 seconds left to take a 125-124 lead; assisted Jokic’s only made 3-pointer of the night with 30 seconds left to reclaim a 128-127 advantage; then slithered around a Jokic screen on the last possession to get to his step-back.
—Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 17 Dec. 2024
Your recruiting violations involve laundered money, strip clubs, escorts, luxury SUVs and a booster named Scabby who slithers around sticky towny bars.
—Zach Przystup, Baltimore Sun, 10 Dec. 2024
The players were randomly divided into three teams and then had to slither up and down sand with their arms and legs bound while pushing a ball with their head and shoulder.
—Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slither
Verb
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Robbers methodically snake through the diamond center under a time crunch.—
Robert Daniels,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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See, in this case, the glowing river that snakes through this Rings of Power valley.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
30 Dec. 2024
Verb
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Emma Corrin — who plays Anna Harding, best friend to Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen Hutter — had to film a scene covered in rats that crawled on their bare chest.—
Laura Bradley,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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The investigators will lay out a grid at the scene, typically with string, and literally crawl around on their hands and knees in search of footprints or other clues.—
Adiel Kaplan,
NBC News,
15 Jan. 2025
Verb
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The drama creeps in gradually, like a gray poison slowly infecting the air.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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Mortgage rates have crept back over 7% to start the new year in a potentially troublesome development for the housing market that has struggled under the weight of higher interest rates for two years that have priced people out of the market and slowed sales to 20-year lows.—
Austin Denean,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Jan. 2025
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The film also slid into one of the 10 best picture spots.—
Nicole Fell,
The Hollywood Reporter,
23 Jan. 2025
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Schoen also would have the advantage, though, of letting Tennessee slide down only two slots to No. 3 rather than plummeting down the draft board.—
Pat Leonard,
New York Daily News,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Slither.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slither. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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