Example Sentences

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"You take multiple pictures, sometimes over 100 and it takes tiny little slithers of focus, and then you put all those into software, and that creates your final image."

From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025

Once it has a plan in place, the 14-foot-long robot lowers its head, engages its 48 motors and slowly slithers forward.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2023

You stand stock-still until it quiets down and slithers on its way.

From Slate • Aug. 19, 2023

In it, a humanoid form slithers back and forth, its movements startlingly alien.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022

It slithers and moves around in the pit of my stomach, growing bigger and bigger.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung