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snaky

[snay-kee] / ˈsneɪ ki /




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On “Anatomical Fable of the Elements,” atop a snaky bassline and a throbbing beat, Ms. Muldrow poses questions: “Is your nose witness to the sweet life?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

It couldn’t have helped the DOJ’s position that Boasberg is probably one of the most experienced jurists in the U.S. judiciary when it comes to dealing with this administration’s snaky tactics.

From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2026

She added it was "almost snaky", starting gradually.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026

The Grand Prix winner of last year’s Cannes Critics Week, filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s snaky, surprising fable starts with a sneeze and explodes into a saga about bureaucracy, modernization and moral corruption.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

He could feel its hot snaky fingers wriggling through his chest as he swallowed.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

It was hair that could turn the Medusa to stone, hair snakier than all the snake pits in a minotaur movie.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

After all, Texas is one of the snakiest states in the nation, with more than 80 species, 11 of them venomous.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022

A cow-puncher togged up like he was going after the snakiest bronk in the country, when he was only going to drive to town in a buckboard!

From Chip, of the Flying U by Charles M. Russell

There had been much calumniating cackle in the little town; nay, more: cackle is of geese; there had been venom of the snakiest kind.

From The Rough Road by William John Locke

Angus, Junior, was off early, too, in his snakiest car.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

He’s an iceberg, an’ he’s got the snakiest gun-hand of any man in the country.

From 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer




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