fangs

Example Sentences

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But Michael is a standard-issue good kid seduced by the lure of the more glamorous bad kids—one of “The Outsiders,” but with fangs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

Devendra, who was a farmer in India, still remembers the moment a snake sank its fangs into his leg while he was picking mulberry leaves.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026

To me, a Midwestern kid familiar with winter winds dragging their fangs across her face, Mary’s upright spine and sure gait set an example worth heeding.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2026

"This is the spider's most vulnerable region since other parts have a lot of chitin, which forms an exoskeleton difficult for the mites' fangs to penetrate," the researcher explains.

From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026

First a cascade of shrew-like creatures with canine fangs, soaking wet, a dozen of them, and then a great horde of what looked like large green-horned squirrels, wailing and crying out—“Run! Run!” —as they went.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell