Use snake in a sentence
Sentences ending with snake
- It slides along the ground on its belly, like a snake. [11]
- The crushed sage resembled the path of a monster snake. [13]
- A few young monkeys and one old Anubis baboon alone took no notice of the snake. [1]
- He gripped the letter in his pocket as a Hopi Indian does the body of a poisonous snake. [11]
- A slip of it a couple of feet long and an inch in diameter each way bends in the hand like a half-frozen snake. [4]
- He is as fascinating as--" "As the Snake? [11]
- Once more he beheld the river which, sparkling and bright, wound through the green plain like a silver snake. [10]
- The Crotonian threw almost irresistible weight into his attempts to lay hold of his opponent, but the latter slipped through the iron grip like a snake. [10]
- He said in a low, harsh voice: 'M'sieu' le Baron, you are a common thief, a wolf, a snake. [11]
Short sentences using snake
- Let's snake it out. [5]
More example sentences with the word snake in them
- Some day when you think you tread on a wisp of straw, it will be a snake with the deadly tooth. [11]
- His foot swelled up pretty big, and so did his leg; but by and by the drunk begun to come, and so I judged he was all right; but I'd druther been bit with a snake than pap's whisky. [5]
- When had a troop of enthusiastic students and hastily-collected peasant-soldiers ever been able to snake an effectual stand against the hosts of Rome? [10]
- Friday She says the snake advises her to try the fruit of that tree, and says the result will be a great and fine and noble education. [5]
- John Brown knew that he could never match his intelligence against Charley's, in spite of the theological course at Durham, so he undertook to scotch the snake by kindness. [11]
- I am assured that every time a man finds himself blooming into fame, they just softly snake him down and relegate him to a wholesome obscurity. [5]
- Then a bird takes flight across the whitening air, another, and then another; the meerkat sits up and begs breakfast of the sun; lizards creep out upon the stones; a snake slides along obscenely foraging. [11]
- Tuesday She has taken up with a snake now. [5]
- The blow was sure, and with half-severed head the snake fell dead upon the ground beside the man. [11]
- Cardanus gets a story from Avicenna, of a certain man bit by a serpent, who recovered of his bite, the snake dying therefrom. [6]
- The man that speculates in the government's snake crop wants to go carefully. [5]
- As he did so, a snake, disturbed in its travel past him, suddenly raised itself in anger. [11]
- You are the snake that crawls in the slime. [11]
- The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda,--these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs. [6]
- An instant after, she slipped out behind the millstones, and crept as cleverly and as silently as a snake along the ground under the darkened base of the centurion's house, and lay close under Sirona's window. [10]
- To spite her she had committed a crime as like murder as one snake is like another, and imperilled her own mother's life! [10]
- As for the sculptor I will make him feel that Caesar has a heavy foot and can unexpectedly crush a snake that creeps across his path. [10]
- The Mudir's hand ran out like a snake towards a bell on the cushions, but Dicky shot forward and caught the wrist in his slim, steel-like fingers. [11]
- Many believed themselves protected by having a few hairs or feathers of some sacred animal, and not a few put themselves under the protection of a living snake or beetle carefully concealed in a pocket of their apron or in their little provision-sack. [10]
- At the head of the list is the cobra, the deadliest known to the world, a snake whose bite kills where the rattlesnake's bite merely entertains. [5]
- That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it. [5]
- The snake had no fear and watched them with scintillating eyes. [13]
- It is the nature of poetry to writhe itself along through the tangled growths of the vocabulary, as a snake winds through the grass, in sinuous, complex, and unexpected curves, which crack every joint that is not supple as india-rubber. [6]
- I was so much surprised at his account, that I took a stuffed and coiled-up snake into the monkey-house at the Zoological Gardens, and the excitement thus caused was one of the most curious spectacles which I ever beheld. [1]
- Laocoon shut his mouth, which had been stretched open for about eighteen centuries, untwisted the last coil of the snake, and stepped down, a free man. [4]
- That which now most repels you from the goal will fall away as the snake sheds its skin. [10]
- Dick loosened his lasso, wound it up again, laid it like a pet snake in a coil at his saddle-bow, turned his horse, and rode slowly along towards the mansion-house. [6]
- There's a snake in the bed of Manitou-- what are you going to do with it? [11]
- So confident, as I think, was General Cass that there was a snake somewhere about, he chose to run away from the whole thing. [7]
- About this time I mighty near stepped on a good-sized snake, and it went sliding off through the grass and flowers, and I after it, trying to get a shot at it. [5]
- Well, by night I forgot all about the snake, and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light the snake's mate was there, and bit him. [5]
- I well remember how much surprise I felt at the beauty of the first coral- snake which I saw gliding across a path in Brazil. [1]
- But the thing has been so many months in my mind that it seems a relief to snake it out. [5]
- Nobody troubles himself for a common striped snake or a petty thief, but a cobra or a wife-killer is a centre of attraction to all eyes. [6]
- We have come far from the snake liar and the fish liar, and there was rest and peace in the thought; but now we have reached the realm of the boomerang liar, and sorrow is with us once more. [5]
- Outside, in the dooryard, a feathered figure writhed like a snake towards the fence. [9]
- Then Venters's eye descried a very thin, very long green snake coiled round a sapling. [13]
- An insurance actuary could take the Indian census tables and the government's snake tables and tell you within sixpence how much it would be worth to insure a man against death by snake-bite there. [5]
- Sometimes she would convey him up Stairs, and leave him never so little, she should be sure to find a Snake in the Cradle with him, but never perceived it did him any harm. [6]
- The deadly Echis carinata has on its sides some oblique rows of scales of a peculiar structure with serrated edges; and when this snake is excited these scales are rubbed against each other, which produces "a curious prolonged, almost hissing sound. [1]
- The hours went by, and no living thing appeared in the desert, save a small cloud of vultures, heavy from feasting on a camel dead in the waste, and a dark- brown snake flitting across their path. [11]
- Motive may stand; but you have allowed a snake to scream, and I will not concede that that was the best word. [5]
- Next came a bunch of flowers, round whose stems a supple golden snake was twined, covered with rubies and diamonds and destined to coil itself round a woman's arm. [10]
- But you ran away like a wolf from a coal of fire; you shammed death like a fox; you come back like the snake to crawl into the house and strike with poison tooth, when you should be with the worms in the ground. [11]
- These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass. [5]
- The other animals are glad, for she was always experimenting with them and bothering them; and I am glad, because the snake talks, and this enables me to get a rest. [5]
- The other animals are glad, for she was always experimenting with them and bothering them; and I am glad because the snake talks, and this enables me to get a rest. [5]
- He did not answer, but stirred the body of the snake with his foot. [11]
- The belief that animals so distinct as a monkey, an elephant, a humming-bird, a snake, a frog, and a fish, etc., could all have sprung from the same parents, will appear monstrous to those who have not attended to the recent progress of natural history. [1]
- He was barefooted, and the snake bit him right on the heel. [5]
- It was like a snake swallowing itself. [5]
- I then placed a live snake in a paper bag, with the mouth loosely closed, in one of the larger compartments. [1]
- When they have a great snake dance at night, strange things happen. [11]
- And there warn't a blessed snake up there when we went back--we didn't half tie the sack, and they worked out somehow, and left. [5]
- Finally Jim said, "For two cents I'd go out and snake them cats off that chimney. [5]
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