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Slither


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To slide; to glide.

Example Sentences:

  • (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.

Snake


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; -- often with out.
  • (n.) Any species of the order Ophidia; an ophidian; a serpent, whether harmless or venomous. See Ophidia, and Serpent.
  • (v. t.) To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm.
  • (v. i.) To crawl like a snake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Analysis of the product by equilibrium density centrifugation and processive hydrolysis with snake venom phosphodiesterase suggested that the noncomplementary nucleotides were present in phosphodiester linkage.
  • (2) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
  • (3) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
  • (4) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
  • (5) In the last 5 years, 29 children have been treated in our institution for snake bites, all with signs of envenomation.
  • (6) Forty patients with Crotalidae snake bites were evaluated and treated over a 7-year period.
  • (7) The presence of proteins antigenically related to Bothrops asper myotoxins in various snake venoms, mainly from South America, was investigated by using polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies.
  • (8) PCB residues occurred only in snakes collected near a heavily-traveled highway.
  • (9) Snake curaremimetic toxins are known to bind to the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) [Changeux et al.
  • (10) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
  • (11) The prevention of sea-snake bite and poisoning is considered.
  • (12) The prothrombin activator from the venom of Oxyuranus scutellatus (Taipan snake) was purified by gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and ion-exchange chromatography on QAE-Sephadex.
  • (13) In the anterior section of the snake, the vagal trunks contained many cell bodies with colocalized vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and substance P-like immunoreactivity.
  • (14) While the hemagglutination activity of each of the previously described lactose-binding snake venom lectins is inhibited by reducing agent, the activities of BML and JML are not affected by reducing agent.
  • (15) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
  • (16) A platelet-aggregating activity was found in many snake venoms, predominantly those of the genus Bothrops, that is apparent only in the presence of the platelet-aggregating von Willebrand factor of plasma.
  • (17) Water snakes (Natrix natrix), rat snakes (Ptyas korros), cobras (Naja naja), pythons (Python molurus), tortoises (Kachuga sp.
  • (18) By using snake-venom diesterase over short periods of incubation, it was confirmed that the ATP had been incorporated terminally as AMP into the placental tRNA.
  • (19) Pro-Morsi marches regularly snake from the sites, disrupting traffic across much of Cairo and causing further government frustration.
  • (20) The snake with the longest journey took nine months to reach its destination.

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