adder

Example Sentences

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But if something goes wrong using the so-called adder strategy, the cell takes longer to get back to its original size.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

To investigate, Ms. Folwell set about dissecting the tail of a female death adder.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2022

"A venomous animal does not equate to a vicious animal. The adder is something we should be celebrating, not fearing."

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2022

A debut novel as slender and deadly as an adder, “Assembly” follows a young Black British woman preparing to attend a party at her boyfriend’s family estate.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2021

Nervously, she told him about the dead Portuguese and the panga she thought he had given her, about the puff adder that had come from the ancestors, and about Long Teats.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer