cobra
Example Sentences
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This drama will not end well: “Watch Your Step” has a coiled energy, a cobra poised to strike.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
Throw in a pitch spitting like a cobra from a length at one end, Jasprit Bumrah bowling missiles and turn for Ravindra Jadeja, and England were second favourites.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to cobra venom, a team of scientists based in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the UK has discovered.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024
When she and Dr. Tessler analyzed the leech’s movement, they identified that it made a curling motion similar to the move a cobra makes before it strikes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Seconds later, the moist ground came alive as hundreds of cobra slithered out from the shadows and gathered around the corpse, hypnotized by the spell.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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