With one quick stroke he slithers away, not in any particular hurry.

He'd love to slither away and he's too polite to do it.

One half slithered away to the floor; I let it lie.

"I'll have whatever he has," I said, then forced my gaze back on the professor when she slithered away.

The tiger slithered away into the jungles without making a sound.

The snake might, I reassure myself, just decide to slither away.

"Then you change into a serpent and slither away," the professor responded.

As a result, relationships slither away even before they can be formed.

But he walked across to the fire not the bed, and the tension slithered away.

It hovered for a second against his bent arm, then slithered away.