Thesaurus results for SNAKED

snaked

verb

past tense of snake

as in lurked

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

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as in slid

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 snaked At Yohji Yamamoto, a long strand of eyelashes cascaded down from a model’s lower eyelid and snaked against her face. — Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 Demands for the exclusive event pins exceeded common sense and ventured into the absurd with haphazard lines that snaked through the convention center. — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2026 But the real action was in line for the Breen meet and greet, which snaked across the lobby of the Regal’s mezzanine level after the second screening. — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2026 The historic flood that snaked its way through Central Indiana over the weekend shook the region, damaging homes, businesses and roads as portions of White River crested up to 24 feet. — Marissa Meador, IndyStar, 16 Aug. 2026 At the Meijer gas station in Highland, several lines snaked through the parking lot and onto the main road on Wednesday. — Sara MacHi, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026 Here, too, there were echoes of Keegan’s blissful early days, when queues snaked outside the stadium hours before kick-off and every victory felt like alchemy. — George Caulkin, New York Times, 30 July 2026 At the bus stop, there was a queue of chartered double-decker buses and a vast crowd, mostly men in blue business suits, snaked four times around the car park, waiting to board the vehicles. — David Szondy july 23, New Atlas, 23 July 2026 Food trucks reopened after the storm and long lines snaked around the vendor area. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026

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But trouble lurked in a left-field box seat — and at shortstop.

— Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Former landlords lurked in bushes or on roofs or waited in cars outside our home.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of lurked

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The Dallas Cowboys tight end slid into the former college athlete and influencer's DMs with a line that ended up working and anyone can use.

— Sean Joseph OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Artificial Intelligence infrastructure plays Nebius Group and Iren also slid 5% and nearly 8%, respectively.

— Ananya Chetia,Darla Mercado, CFP®, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of slid

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It was announced on Saturday that Judkins and QB Deshaun Watson had been fined a cool $14,397, while guard Austin Barber, who also snuck a hit off of the invisible blunt, had to pony up $6,944.

— Matt Reigle OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
Kraft also took a direct snap and sneaked for a first down on another fourth-and-1 at the Buccaneers 10.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of sneaked

Verb

Amanda Peet did all of that too, starting in her late 30s because of dense breast tissue and prior benign lumps, and her stage 1 invasive lobular carcinoma still slipped past her first scan.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 14 Oct. 2026
These were aspirationally scheduled for no earlier than mid and late October, respectively, but have now apparently slipped to mid-to-late November (though there has been no public confirmation of any firm target date).

— Andrew Jones, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of slipped

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In May 2025, after Williams shut off the water in a cell, 10 inmates removed a toilet, crawled through a gap in the wall and scaled a fence out of the jail.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
In real-world tests, the hand crawled across 14 different surfaces including smooth floors, metal grates, grass, and gravel.

— Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of crawled

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Saint Laurent‘s shining gold shoes slithered down the spring 2027 runway on Tuesday to become the talk of Paris Fashion Week, with sculptural snake heels among the collection’s standout footwear.

— Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
The snake, later identified as an approximately eight-foot-long Burmese python, had slithered beneath the floor of a wooden shed.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026

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