moccasin
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Then with my own kids making their own memories, watching the peanut butter being made, choosing moccasins from the now-gone moccasin shop at the Dell.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2024
Her team then checked this in a variety of snakes - dissecting a total of nine species including the carpet python, puff adder and Mexican moccasin.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2022
“He was kind of a grumpy snake, and everybody was going, ‘Omigod, omigod, it's a water moccasin, kill it!’” she recollects.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
At the next stop, a small man in moccasin slippers and no shirt got on.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2021
Bending over, croaking like a bullfrog that had been caught by a water moccasin, he started going around in a circle.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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In Vegas, she and Missi both wore moccasins made by an aunt.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 27, 2023
Mattel should have considered traditional pucker toe moccasins, instead of black shoes, and included symbols on the basket that Cherokees use to tell a story, she said.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
Dressed in tan pants and tan lace-up moccasins with a pale blue shawl wrapped around her shoulders, she walked for a quarter of a mile before stepping off the path.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Inside were Lakota cultural objects and belongings that had been returned after more than a century on the other side of the country: moccasins, sacred pipes, ritual clothing, beaded leather bags.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
In a little while he put fresh undershorts back on and set out for the beach in his moccasins, a khaki-colored bath towel draped over his shoulders.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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