verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a snake slithers somewhere (= moves there )
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Just feet from me, a green snake slithered silently across the path.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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He let it slither down the roof to the building's guttering.
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So do I. I slither down the muddy steps leading off the Mudchute embankment.
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They must be young animals, he told himself as he slithered down .
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He was already advancing up the truck as Ward slithered down on to the flat surface of it.
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Nell pressed her arms and legs outwards, slithering down in short movements.
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He and the two Rottweilers slither down the corridor.
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Brambles caught at them as they slithered down .
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She hardly felt the cuts and scratches as she slithered down the rocky path to the Cove.
out
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But they would slither out again, and they would probably do so quite quickly.
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Toos would kick the wall next to the sink, and roaches would slither out of the dust and the cracked plaster.
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Vines slithered out of the brush.
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They know that animals slithered out of the sea and billions of years later evolved into pandering politicians.
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Rolling clouds of black smoke blotted out the sky while brilliant sheaths of flame slithered out of every window.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As Katie fell asleep her book fell from her hands and slithered off the bed.
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The snake slithered away through the grass.
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Tom slithered down the muddy bank into the water.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A wet pair of panty hose slithered over his ear.
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After four or five testers had slithered through this interface maze, the correct solution would usually emerge.
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Bath could not hit their top gear of late as they too slithered around in the wet.
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For he was not a man who could slither into any shape required of him.
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He let it slither down the roof to the building's guttering.
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The air is filled with a dingo's howl, the footpaths alive with the poisonous snakes on their slithering nocturnal hunt.
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They did so simply by reading the fine print and slithering through the loophole that yawned, obvious and inviting, therein.