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Example Sentences

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There has been an outpouring of grief in Nigeria following the death of an aspiring singer who died on Saturday after being bitten by a snake in the capital, Abuja.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

"They include Paleryx, the first named constrictor snake in the fossil record."

From Science Daily • Dec. 31, 2025

Liquidity gates are the real snake in the garden.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 5, 2025

In 2001, Joseph Slowinski, a herpetologist at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, died 30 hours after he was bitten by a small venomous snake in the mountainous jungles of northern Myanmar.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2023

The instant Curly kicked open the door, he realized there was no poisonous snake in the bathroom, no cause for mortal alarm.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen