snake

Example Sentences

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In 2025, the county reported nine snake bites for the year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Green outfitted the apartments with Ikea furniture, a snake plant and Martha Stewart kitchenware.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

If the snake does strike, he noted, “they strike faster than people can react to the strike.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Frontrunner Rafael "Porky" Lopez Aliaga recently toured one poor district where he was greeted by a giant stuffed snake.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

But the monkeys all ran to the outer branches of the tree, and I realized it couldn’t be the snake because they were peering into the distance— out over the lake.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo