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Synonyms for slither

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Synonyms for slither

to lose one's balance and fall or almost fall

to move sinuously

to move smoothly, continuously, and effortlessly

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Synonyms for slither

to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly

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Another long python (this time alive) uncoils, slithers across the water pond and up the rocks and across, its long body stretched from head to tail.The green mambas and the black mambas, the cobras including the really rare ones like the Mount Kenya carpet viper are in clean cages and well fed unlike when l visited in 2011 and wrote a scathing article about the terrible condition of the poor snakes.
While the thin slithers of apple are lacking in taste they do add texture and the tiny blueberries add a sweet zing.
Just when we thought we'd seen the last of him, he slithers back in with a new political party.
As you go round the building, and as the sun moves, the building changes as it quietly slithers into the centre of the town like an amiable, well mannered and very elegant snake.
A snake subjected to such vexations sometimes slithers off to lurk somewhere else.
that, buried, must outlast predatious slithers, legs
GOING..; GOING..; GONE..; I'M NEVER GUNNER LIVE THIS DOWN: Comrades watch as the trooper slithers from the saddle GETTY IMAGES
Everything seems futile, save the dandylike celebration of idleness, the wordplay that slithers between the deliberately uncertain brushstrokes.
It was also necessary to design structural remedies to be as noninvasive as possible: 'stitching' across fractures to columns using stone slithers to bridge the fractures, and drilling about 3m through the entablature to arrest previous fracture and movement.
For the aubergine caviar: 1 medium aubergine, 1 clove garlic, cut into slithers, sprig thyme, sprig rosemary, 1 bayleaf, cut into strips, 100ml olive oil, salt and freshly ground black pepper, 1 medium tomato, skinned, deseeded and finely diced
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta lists botulism as one of the six most dangerous bioterrorism slithers against gravity.
Morris captures animal movement with wit and inventiveness: snake (Mireille Radwan-Dana) slithers along the river bank, peacock (Shawn Gannon) struts with arms crooked back like wings, blue jay (David Leventhal) flits and darts.
Destroyer, 2003, confronts us with what looks like the underbelly of some prehistoric crustacean as it slithers up from the tendrils of flame at the work's bottom border.
The paradise tree snake (Chrysopelea paradisi) of Southeast Asia slithers while in the air, creating fleeting S-shape wings, says a report in the Aug.