Thesaurus results for SNAKING

snaking

verb

present participle of snake

as in lurking

to move about in a sly or secret manner snaking softly through the brush

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as in creeping

to move slowly with the body close to the ground commandos snaking through the grass toward the house

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Recent Examples of snaking Longtime collaborator Erik Blood foregrounds Butler’s dry drum machines in the mix, letting every other element shuffle around them, snaking toward the spotlight for a brief moment and retreating back into the brume. — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026 Arthur Russell — Hall’s primary musical collaborator and the artist most associated with his own work — lived on the top floor, a cord of bootleg electricity snaking up from Ginsberg’s window to his apartment. — Jack Denton, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026 Video footage of the store’s opening showed customers waiting in a line snaking through the shopping plaza to enter the store, with shoppers trying samples and purchasing tote bags and snacks. — Ella Chakarian, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026 The new location, at 5000 W 119th Street, Unit A143, in Town Center Crossing opened its doors Friday to a line snaking around the building, according to several posts on social media. — Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 20 Oct. 2026 The intricate, snaking sculpture is comprised of 537 individual elements suspended from the rafters. — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Oct. 2026 Those facilities include long plastic silobags snaking across fields and towering metal grain elevators that are themselves increasingly vulnerable to military strikes. — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2026 By Wednesday afternoon, the line for visitor passes to get on base for the ship’s homecoming stretched several hundred feet, snaking across the lawn in front of the building and doubling back on itself. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 8 Oct. 2026 Paths wind through a pebbled courtyard and stunning garden, first leading you past the hotel’s cafe, then snaking its way to the main building’s lobby. — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Oct. 2026

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Verb

Unfortunately not, because another issue is lurking around the corner.

— Philipp Strasberg, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026
John Willoughby Frank Dillane Dillane’s Willoughby, like Creed-Miles’ Marianne, has more of a darkness lurking beneath.

— Reshma Gopaldas, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of lurking

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Gusts of more than 60 mph are possible in parts of the Outer Banks with 40 to 50 mph gusts creeping toward the Interstate 95 corridor in North Carolina and southern Virginia.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Graduate unemployment is at 23 percent, white-collar job growth has slowed to a creeping one percent this year, and nearly a quarter of Indians between the ages of 15 and 29 are not in employment, education, or training programs.

— Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of creeping

Verb

For a solid thirty minutes, the candidates defended their honor as the race’s most pro-Israel candidate — at times sneaking in jabs about their opponent.

— Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
But, the heartbreak would come sneaking around the bend over what might be the wildest 20 seconds of recent Big Ten memory, thanks to the insane final few minutes.

— Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of sneaking

Verb

Prior to then, traffic was seen crawling on the eastbound side of the bridge heading into the city.

— Jeff Capellini, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
At the hospital, an insect fell from the girl’s shoe, and a staffer saw a cockroach crawling on her, the district attorney’s office said.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of crawling

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The system can also move with the trailer’s sliding suspension.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
His return this preseason was intentionally low-key, sliding onto the roster of the last-place Kings (22-60 last season) without much fanfare.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of sliding

Verb

Since the nineteen-nineties, a Korean New Wave had been praised for embedding capitalist critique in movies packed with monsters, slithering octopuses, killers, and killer cops.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
So are silverfish — those small, slithering insects attracted to starchy materials found in books and their bindings.

— Martine Thompson, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of slithering

Verb

The chill was slipping through the cracks in her windows and warps in her 48-year-old trailer.

— Rachel Siegel, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
Several analysts noted that slipping revenue could be offset by accelerating momentum in Tesla's emerging technology verticals in the long-term.

— Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2026

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