slither
verb (used without object)
to slide down or along a surface, especially unsteadily, from side to side, or with some friction or noise.
were slithering
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past progressiveof slither.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Worse, as he lay helpless, he suddenly discovered several rattlesnakes were slithering around him.
From Fox News ● Oct. 18, 2018
I felt movement around my legs and feet Things were slithering.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
The track wound up and down, often very slippery underfoot, and the horses, shod with the usual flat plates of iron, were slithering and sliding on the edge of the precipices.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
But get her in he did, although the propeller was throwing up muddy sand and the keel plates were slithering over the bottom.
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
Yorick and I were slithering over, just like the loathly Tertium Quid on the Mushobra Road; and there is plenty of Indian corn in the valley!
From The Great Amulet by Maud Diver
