as in slugs
someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others
go and tell the snails in the back to hurry up
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as in crawls
to move slowly
the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five miles
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Recent Examples of snails
Isoke Atiba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
Take respectful photos and use your Pocket Guide to identify common species like tidepool sculpin or turban snails.
—Lillie Mulligan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
This mode reflects how snails move efficiently under normal conditions.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
And more books should have kittens and/or snails on them.
—Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
In rural Ireland, using pigs to cure mumps and snails for warts are just some of the hundreds of remedies once believed to be cures.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2025
The snails are often pulled from their shells, but some chefs prefer to serve them in shell and let customers enjoy extracting the snails themselves.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
Overnight from Sunday into Monday, thieves entered the farm undetected and broke into the buildings housing the snails, French public broadcaster France Info reported.
—Catherine Nicholls, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025
This will reduce the number of snails and other pests that overwinter nearby and feed on your plants in spring.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
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One of my prompts on the app detailed my phobia of snails in detail.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for snails
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Later, a pair of slugs that help the seed cross an arid landscape, like camels in the desert, glisten vividly.—
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The good news is that researchers at Oregon State University2 have found that coffee is effective in getting rid of slugs.—
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Since the holidays, many of us have spent winter days cooped up inside, shuttling between work, school and home while the calendar crawls toward spring.—
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In Elf, while Santa (the late Ed Asner) is setting out toys at an orphanage on Christmas Eve, Buddy (Will Ferrell) crawls into his sack.—
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Its companions are four Russian mobsters — stragglers from the previous season — laying on their stomachs with their necks outstretched over the rail.—
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The last Orionid stragglers usually appear sometime in early to mid-November.—
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Iwobi’s movement drags Ladislav Krejci wider, increasing the space between the lines and creating a clear passing angle for Calvin Bassey.—
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This not-quite-title song, which is nearly eight minutes long, is a sort of mini-suite, opening with a dog barking, giving way to an acoustic-guitar melody accompanying polyphonic vocals, then becoming electric and crashingly alive, until the relentless screech of a guitar drags you to the end.—
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The larvae are voracious and consume many aphids and scale crawlers during this stage of development, MSU said.—
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Try ones shaped like pumpkins, skulls, or spiders and other creepy crawlers.—
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Move too far away from it and the outside chill creeps in.—
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Depop determined that, as decision fatigue creeps into even the act of getting dressed, reliable replicas (think tailored trousers, sharp outerwear, crisp button-downs) will become the backbone of Gen Z wardrobes.—
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Is every head that pokes in to look at me actually Frank himself?—
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The Aries moon pokes holes in old insecurities about competence and productivity.—
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The rotational dynamics since late October have continued to favor economically sensitive stocks and 2025 laggards over the tech giants that contributed the most value over the past three years.—
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This raises the question of how exactly the search giant pulled this off, and whether any of the four laggards can do the same—and deliver a similar win for their suffering shareholders.—
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“Snails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snails. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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