snake
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Taken together, the works here also put us in mind of Ashbery’s poetry—whole sentences that sometimes snake along on various wavelengths, demanding that we give ourselves over to the currents of the poet’s thoughts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Zoo keepers first became concerned when the snake began eating less and spending more time inactive.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
They and the other dinosaurs — a T. rex, an armored ankylosaurus, a sight-gag-worthy giant snake — adapt to the 20th century as comfortably as coyotes, skulking through backyards in search of prey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
Weary of venomous snake bites, British authorities put a bounty on dead cobras — but this only incentivized locals to breed more of the snakes, in order to collect even more reward money.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
A snake once bit Leroy Herdman and Leroy’s leg swelled up a little bit, but that was all.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
Outside the store, a crowd snakes up the block, and it’s barely 9 a.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
In February this year, customs officials seized 31 exotic animals from a passenger arriving from Bangkok, including tortoises, iguanas and snakes.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
If you allow people to earn cash from dead snakes, you risk getting a lot more living snakes in the process.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Yet scientists still do not fully understand how snakes developed their long, limbless bodies.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026
He was hit at once with the smell of coffee and frying potatoes, and in spite of everything, especially the close encounters with footed snakes and sheydim, his stomach growled.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
A line snaked around the temple’s restaurant, known for vegetarian noodles that cost about $2 a bowl.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Dozens of wires snaked around three electronic boxes, one of them connected to an old-school car battery for supplemental power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
As for the social media star, Watson wonders if he'll still draw in as many YouTube viewers or if some fans will feel like he has "snaked" his fellow Sidemen.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
The line to see Gomez’s replica of L.A.’s graffiti towers, “Oceanwide Plaza,” snaked through the gallery’s courtyard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
Sweat snaked down his forehead as it finally clicked in his mind, and both panic and joy erupted within him as he turned and faced down one of the hallways.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
The clicky videos, the snaking lines of customers, the grandiose launch parties—it echoes similar consumer hype trends of the past, like McDonald’s hyperviral Travis Scott Meal or infamous Rick and Morty–fueled Szechuan Sauce incident.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
When her foster mom is preparing dinner, Lu sneakily samples from her siblings’ meals, snaking her tongue into each bowl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
As he approached the peak of Everest in May 2019, he snapped a photo of a snaking queue of climbers all waiting to reach the summit.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Jeers to a snaking Delta baggage-drop line in Minneapolis last week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
He glanced back apprehensively, half expecting to find the limp white things crawling after him in sightless pursuit or snaking up through the treetops in a writhing and ungovernable mutative mass.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
