slithered
past simple and past participle ofslither
slither
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
uk/ˈslɪð.ər/us/ˈslɪð.ɚ/(ofbodies) tomoveeasilyandquicklyacrossasurfacewhiletwistingorcurving:
Shewatchedthesnakeslither away.
Synonyms
slide
slip(SLIDE)
Moving on your hands and legs or on your stomach
- clamber
- claw
- clawyourway(somewhere)idiom
- crawl
- four
- grovel
- on all foursidiom
- pull
- scramble
- shimmy
- slither
- wriggle
Examplesofslithered
slithered
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Scientific discourse on raceslitheredinto colonial practice and became the foundation for bureaucratic procedure there.
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Yet when he was challenged he dodged andslitheredaway from making the charge that miners or power workers were breaking the law.
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We haveslitheredfrom one crisis to another.
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It has meant that over twelve years we haveslitheredfrom one crisis to another.
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He made a number of errors and then slipped andslitheredaway to another misstatement.
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During the intervening two years the industry hasslitheredcloser and closer to the brink of destruction.
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Pancrasslitheredand slid and changed his position.
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They haveslitheredback from that.
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Heslitheredaround his house and even saw himself lying inside.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As heslitheredaway, he claims that his united army can not be defeated.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.But the ground was too muddy and itslithered.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.You can hear the civil war internally as our lucrative opportunity to make the album of our careerslitheredthrough our hands.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When he touched the horse's skull with his boot a snakeslitheredfrom the skull and bit him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The tigerslitheredaway into the jungles without making a sound.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One day, his wife slept in the garden, and a grass snakeslitheredinto her womb.
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