How to Use slither in a Sentence

slither

verb

• The snake slithered through the garden.
• He slithered his hand around her waist.
• To get under the porch, I lay on my stomach and slithered like a snake.
• She slithered quietly into the room.
• The clip shows the snake attempting to slither through the air as the car speeds down the road.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• The cable slipped out of the socket at the bottom of the phone and slithered away from her and off the bed.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• The pain slithered into his life at age 12 and stayed day and night.
  — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 June 2017
• If the car floats for a few seconds, slither out the window.
  — Michael Stillwell, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
• The 3-foot-long, skinny brown snake slithered to the other side of the bedroom.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Video shows the snake slithering from a brick wall to the wooden door, through the key hole and down to the door's handle.
  — Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
• The video showed the reptile slithering out to sea, with its head above the water.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 13 May 2018
• This complaint turned out to be a ? slithering down the road.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 24 June 2019
• The man and his wife pushed the snake away with a golf club and a shovel, but the snake only slithered beneath the steps.
  — Joe Marusak and Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 29 Sep. 2017
• The thing that slithered into our world was the size of a horse, but lower, longer, and leaner.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Of course, legless lizards didn’t just kick off their legs and slither away one day.
  — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2020
• But the gorilla is scared off when the snake begins to slither.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2021
• Aestas slithered down from the tree and faced Ander, eyes wide.
  — cleveland, 19 Nov. 2019
• The hatchling slithered in Ms. Siewe’s hands, around her fingers and wrist, up her arm, down her leg.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• This time, the law just couldn’t be ignored; it couldn’t be bent or broadened enough for Guyger to slither free.
  — Kirsten West Savali, Essence, 3 Oct. 2019
• The lava moved down the hillside, slithered across a street and swallowed a Ford Mustang on the other side of the road.
  — Darran Simon, CNN, 7 May 2018
• In the opening seconds of the fourth quarter, Green slithered the final 13 yards for what proved to be the final points.
  — Randy Jennings, Dallas News, 2 Sep. 2023
• Young had two sacks and would have had a third had Peyton Ramsey not slithered out of his grasp.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland.com, 16 Sep. 2019
• When the catcher took a closer look, the scaly body of a snake was slithering around the basket, between the toys and dolls, the video shows.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
• Some have been known to slither over damp earth to reach inland waters.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• Toya is halfway out the door just as Quad slithers her way into the party.
  — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2024
• But there are snakes in the grass, real ones, slithering closer and closer to the White House.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2018
• All are rendered with quick, slithering and slashing strokes of the brush.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• Ryan botched the reward challenge with his awkward slither up the sand dunes.
  — Stephen Fishbach, PEOPLE.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• The slithering reptile was in a glass case, but that didn’t assuage his fears.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
• The slithering salamander — the largest in North America — is the state's amphibian, and there are only about 2,000 left in the wild.
  — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 15 July 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024