snail

Example Sentences

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"If there were two snails going up a wall, he'd be betting on his one going up first," his grandmother Muriel told Ski Sunday.

From BBC

I’m not confident in her ability to sing French songs about snails.

From Literature

They moved along at a snail's pace, the mud dragging at their boots.

From Literature

There are close-ups of hands kneading dough, a snail sliming its way up a window and Cathy prodding a jellied fish with her finger.

From Los Angeles Times

After all, the moorhen ate other creatures too, like fish, snails, insects, without worrying what she was doing to them and their young.

From Literature