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Example sentences for "slithered"

Lexicographically close words:
slipshod; slipt; slipway; slit; slither; slithering; slithy; slits; slitted; slitting
  1. We slipped and slithered and slid in the miry road.

  2. No sooner was this done than we slithered once more and fell over en bloc on the opposite side.

  3. We all pushed; we slithered to right and left; we slipped over each other and ourselves.

  4. We slipped and slithered and wallowed about, but we got to the top.

  5. Then, when he was getting down, he was hit, and slithered into the position I found him in.

  6. Slowly, an inch or two at a time, Reginald Simpkins slithered down the sloping side of the shell hole till he reached the bottom.

  7. Then, with a shuddering movement, the U-boat slithered under the water.

  8. Then like a gigantic whale the long, bulging hull slithered above the surface, the water pouring from its deck in cascades of swirling foam.

  9. With a final effort as the frothy water slithered past Pyecroft gained his feet.

  10. Then, with a rush of eddying water, the X-lighter slithered beneath the waves.

  11. At the second attempt he slithered over the transom and, still submerged, lightly grasped one of the thwarts.

  12. Peter's fairly long hair afforded a secure hold for the Arab's fingers, while his thumb slithered down Mostyn's forehead preparatory to the typically Arab trick of gouging out his opponent's eyes.

  13. The luckless fellow, lifted completely off his feet, crashed heavily against the bulkhead and slithered limply upon the deck.

  14. Striking a bit of flat bare rock, the runners spat out fire and squealed, after which the heavy sled slithered and slipped over the crackling snow, so that presently the outfit disappeared around the first bend in the tote-road.

  15. The toboggan slithered over the snow and there was a patter of dogs' feet.

  16. On all sides rose great walls of battered ice with steep snow-slopes in the middle, where we slithered about and blundered into crevasses.

  17. With the wind behind, and the good sliding surface made by the wind-hardened snow, one fairly slithered along.

  18. Soon the blunt brown tentacles slithered in search of them, but failed to reach their refuge by inches.

  19. Hundreds of short, clawed legs slithered on the rocks under a long sinuous body.

  20. They reeled from the shock, slithered sideways, and crashed, Dakkanese on the guard-rail which gave, and then smashed.

  21. Sylviana slithered to the ground with her back against the tree, her sorrow as bitter and unquenchable as any she had ever known.

  22. At long, impossible length he reached the gorge path and slithered down.

  23. Suddenly with a headlong dive, the carriage swayed as if it would fly in pieces, slithered along, and with a jerk steadied itself.

  24. Suddenly she slithered out her slender grey-pink tongue and licked its nose.

  25. The beams from half a dozen sun-tubes slithered across the room, burning flaming paths through the overheated air, bringing the very walls down about them.

  26. The deadly beam from his weapon slithered over the wall, searing a great molten gash in the crystal.

  27. A beam slithered down the smoldering air, and the Earth literally boiled under its impact, directly on the spot where Wat had stopped to shake his fist.

  28. I slithered down a steep bank into a meadow, where for my sins I ran into a fallen tree trunk with a jar that shook me out of my seat and nearly broke my arm.

  29. I slithered across the yard of deck, engulfed in a whirl of water.

  30. The chips of ice slithered between my legs and I could watch them till they brought up just above the bergschrund.

  31. The Kennedy heeled slightly to starboard, and poor little Cookie, knocked off balance by the force of the blow, slithered over the rail.

  32. They struck it with a crash and slithered to the floor, all but stunned.

  33. He rapidly slithered in my direction and, quickly tying the end of his long form securely round me, slithered away again, carrying me through the long grass at a bewildering speed.

  34. Eel-like, Gavin had slithered out of the imprisoning arms.

  35. Fat and short and horrible to look upon, they were, as they slithered and twisted here and there along the bright-lit floor or coiled and hissed at sight of the flame and of the fast plying hand and arm of the captive just above them.

  36. Now he knew why the softly falling bodies had slithered so oddly down the short distance between window and floor.

  37. As the Montanan's rope slithered suddenly straight ahead from an aim calculated to pick up the steer's hind hoof for a fall, the Gothamite spurred his mount and cut directly across it.

  38. Irene slithered from her seat on the arm of the chair recently vacated by the handsome real-estater.

  39. Dalrymple rattled the dice and slithered them across the billiard table.

  40. George smiled at the busy little man as his cart slithered from side to side of the driveway.

  41. It echoed through the darkness around him, where smaller creatures crawled and slithered into the protection of their holes.

  42. It unwound in a maddened convulsive movement and slithered toward the tree where Astro lay.

  43. At the first opportune moment, Gale's rope slithered out and fell over the two.

  44. A rusty bar slithered into place and they were prisoners.

  45. The vines slithered out of their hands and dropped to the ground, and the saplings sprang up again straight.

  46. The bindweed slithered out and fell to the ground.

  47. Natives slithered past, garbed in long robes of garish color.

  48. He watched humorlessly as the Antarian slithered out of the office with a flutter of colorful ceremonial robes.

  49. Somehow, anyhow, they slithered and dropped down the remaining steps of their Calvary.

  50. They scrambled and slithered through the passage, which resembled the moraine of a glacier, save that the rocks were on the same plane, and the central stream was clear and greenish instead of being nearly milk white.

  51. As it slithered away, a writhing shape in its mouth, Holmes muttered bitterly: "A competitor!

  52. Before he knew what was happening it had slithered down over his arms and drawn taut just above the elbows, and he was yanked powerfully backwards and almost fell.

  53. She exerted all her strength and slithered upward.

  54. With this warning, she slithered away before Betty could voice an objection.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slithered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.