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• He slithers like a limbo dancer under alder thickets girding the cliff faces.2026 February 27, Paul Salopek, “Hazard Cascade”, in National Geographic. From the entry gird
• Up at the cinema Campbell Cameron had been all slithering hands, like a dirty octopus.2020, Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain, page 58. From the entry winch
• When it slithers through the grass, the legless glass lizard is indistinguishable from a snake.2015 March 16, Andreas Wagner, “Possible creatures”, in Aeon, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2018. From the entry glass lizard
• I slithered over roots and through a bramble bush and a mulchy pile of rotting leaves.2010, Adrian McKinty, The Dead Yard. From the entry mulchy
• A slithering back porch visitor and a kindly sign painter helped a young mother overcome snake fright.1992, Wisconsin Natural Resources, volumes 16-17. From the entry snake-fright
• But I'm crocky already; My feet, 'ow they slither and slip!1958, Robert W. Service, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man. From the entry crocky
• The mash grass, through which the Indian canoes had slithered so caressingly, turned harsh and brittle.1942, Emily Carr, “Grown Up”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry caressingly
• The oldest Lark spaghettied down to a noodle and slithered through the letterbox-like hole at the bottom of the cistern.2022 August 30, Thomas Sanders, Samuel Sanders, “Little K, Fire ’Er Up!”, in The Companionship in A Case of OCD, [United Kingdom]: Sanders…. From the entry spaghetti
• But they slithered in a suitlike way.2020, Emily Segal, Mercury Retrograde, New York: Deluge Books, →ISBN. From the entry prayer beads
• Slithering around in the societal sludge, I was forced to admit I'd made a huge mistake – committing robbery.2011 November 7, Paris Lees, “My Transsexual Summer: a new view of gender”, in The Guardian. From the entry borstal
• Slither around Santa Fe's Rattlesnake Museum while practicing your parseltongue.2007 April 3, Let's Go Inc., Let's Go Roadtripping USA: The Complete Coast-to-Coast Guide to America, 2nd edition, Macmillan, page 496. From the entry parseltongue
• Well written, but a bit plooky and gimboid; not quite a breath of fresh air, but better than slithering crud.2004 October 29, Wally, “S.A.D”, in uk.local.glasgow (Usenet). From the entry plooky
• A narrow forked tongue as red as blood slithered out from between two long fangish teeth and flickered in the air.1999, Jeff Crook, The Rose and the Skull, page 133. From the entry fangish
• Slithering amongst the luxuriant growth were olive sea snakes.1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 114. From the entry olive sea snake
• The mammiferous secretary slithered in, changed the spool and slithered out again, giving me a small, hygienic smile en route.1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me, Penguin, published 2001, page 53. From the entry mammiferous
• A white jill popped out of the hole nearest men slithered through the net mesh and disappeared down an adjacent entrance.1971 March, Fred Taylor, “How the English hunt rabbits”, in Field & Stream^([84]), volume 75, number 11. From the entry jill
• My feet slithered and scrunched on stranded things.1941, Emily Carr, chapter 18, in Klee Wyck. From the entry belch
• Bullets slithered overhead, into the sea, into the hullside.1926 August, Robert Carse, “Stern Chase”, in Power Boating, volume xxviii, number 8, page 34. From the entry hullside
• Your tricks and spells are no good in this place; no demon can hide its putrid face or mask its slithering voice.2013, Casey Hill, Hidden, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 299. From the entry smite
• The seasons are come to a stagnant stop, the trees blench and wither, the wagons role in the mica ruts with slithering harplike thuds.1934, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Grove Press, published 1961, page 284. From the entry blench
• As the young man turned to pick up his stick to beat it, the snake spat its poison into the man's water gourd before slithering away.2011, Beverley Naidoo, Aesop's Fables, page 20. From the entry sjoe
• There were a few unusual creatures, like the octopodian creature that slithered along upright on tentacles and regarded her with bulbous eyes that had stars for pupils.2007, Amia Kettier, Awakening, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry octopodian
• When it zigzagged, it was because she wanted to take a taan that slithered like a snake as it flashed past, progressing sideways across the sand.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 147. From the entry taan
• Instead, she used a rejective wriggle to slither out of her frock, and there stood squirming, putting a shield of arms before her breasts and belly.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 197. From the entry unrobe
• Before I could answer, a tiny green krait dropped out of Tristan’s nostril and slithered swiftly toward Susan’s sandaled feet: She eeped, dropped my arm, and fled for her life.2003, John Treadwell Nichols, The Voice of the Butterfly, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry eep

Meaning of slither

1. verb To move about smoothly and from side to side.
2. verb To slide.
3. adjective Slithery; slippery.

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How do you use slither in a sentence?

Slither is used as a verb, adjective and noun. For example: “She crouched down, and slithered left.”

What is a short sentence with slither?

“She crouched down, and slithered left.”

What does slither mean?

Slither means to move about smoothly and from side to side.