[
UK
/slˈɪðəɹɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈsɫɪðɝɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫɪðɝɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
moving as on a slippery surface
his slipping and slithering progress over the ice
How To Use slithering In A Sentence
- Slithering, clambering, and clawing through bush - literally bushwhacking - is unique to Blue Mountain canyoning.
- Before the days of refrigerators, when fresh food was stored in larders, Limax species were often encountered congregating around the rim of a milk jug or slithering over the Sunday joint of beef on the larder shelf.
- He will come slithering back to our country waving a British passport to claim dole. The Sun
- Whether slithering cat or purring gentleman visitor, he made each character special. Times, Sunday Times
- It felt like an oily snake slithering around in my head.
- From discovering new slithering species to collecting deadly venom, real-world snake wranglers bring you face-to-fang with some of the most mesmerizing snakes on the planet.
- The mud and a mighty Bristol pack almost sunk our team as Bristol's heroes were shattered by a slithering score from… yes, Richard Hill.
- It took a good 20 minutes of slithering, most of it on our behinds.
- He teaches them limbo dance, slithering like a snake beneath bars placed at very low heights, and some jugglery with fire too.
- Caution threatened to descend into catatonia as, after a bright opening minute or so, the first half turned into a hash of misplaced passes, hoofs into the air and slithering ineptitude.