(1) The speed of the snow led to the closure of roads, including the M62 trans-Pennine motorway where the eastbound carriageway was closed after traffic slithered around on the steep ascent and descent between Rochdale and Huddersfield.
(2) The recipes veer from the incredibly simple, such as stir-fried potato slithers with chillies to the more elaborate, such as dry-braised fish with pork in spicy sauce.
(3) On this, my fourth visit, Makoko is as I’ve always known it: the tiny “jetty” from which visitors and residents board dugout canoes into the labyrinths of the floating settlement; the grey-black sludge that passes for lagoon water; the tangle of boats impatiently slithering through the labyrinth of waterways, making the traffic of Makoko reminiscent of the notorious Lagos roads.
(4) Rory Carroll (@rorycarroll72) Slithering and sliding in sewer gunk and they do it with a sense of humour.
(5) The result is a freewheeling joyride through genre cinema and literature: there are psychopathic mafia bosses, insane motorcycle gangs, xenophobically sketched triads, corrupt secret agents and cynical movie producers – their stories twist and interconnect, slithering around the lives of our protagonists.
(6) And perhaps he buys something to dig the Independent out of the hole it's always close to slithering into.
(7) As they poured men forward in search of a decisive winning goal there was space for Leeds to exploit on the break and when Aidan White sent Ross McCormack racing away down the right flank in the 90th minute, his tame chip from 25 yards out somehow slipped through the fingers of the teenage debutant keeper, Jack Bonham, and slithered agonisingly over the line to condemn Watford to the play-offs.
(8) There is also a slither of hope that a government drive to address the UK’s housing shortage could help first-time buyers.
(9) This strange goon squad of sub-Clarksons, bedroom anarchists, useful idiots and hardcore woman haters gives most of us the creeps and they will be slithering about on Sunday.
(10) The smell of putrefication could be sensed from a distance and on examination large white worms could be seen slithering in the decomposing tissue.
(11) The one-man freak show that appeals to the anarchist (even in me) will slither into the greasy maw of the US Republican party.
(12) An earlier version said that Holyrood controls only a small slither, rather than sliver, of its own spending.
(13) 5.33pm BST 17 min: City go up the other end and appeal for a penalty as Aguero slithers past Alcaraz on the right before being bumped over by the Wigan defender.
(14) He and my father had pitched their tent in the stolen corner of a farmer's lot, and so it was from inside the fence that my brother saw, not 10 feet away from him, the newborn calf slither on to the grass, unfurl its legs, and stand.
(15) Perhaps some visitors from LA had lost big at the casinos and had to slither home empty-handed.
(16) Iran weren't able to clear properly after that first attack and Onazi's low slitherer from the edge of the area went inches wide!
(17) The rain eased in the second period but, with the pitch waterlogged in places, players slithered all over the place and accurate passing became impossible.
(18) Some colon-cleansing tablets contain a polymerising agent that turns your faeces into something like a plastic, so that when a massive rubbery poo snake slithers into your toilet you can stare back at it and feel vindicated in your purchase.
(19) It is common slither from parliament to a position on the board of a big company, or to creep from a tabloid role into a position advising leaders of a sleazy government.
(20) Half a million children are now in “super-sized” classes , while British schools are slithering back to the selection and social segregation of the old days.
Slitter
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, slits.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even as the throat-slitters took control, Assad’s pilots were continuing to drop barrel bombs on the refugees.