[
UK
/snˈeɪk/
]
[ US /ˈsneɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈsneɪk/ ]
NOUN
- a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
- a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
How To Use Snake In A Sentence
- The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
- I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’
- Gil probably should have thought about that and realized that a street address with the word rattlesnake in it was most likely a bad omen—that things probably wouldn’t turn out well if they tried living there. Fatal Error
- I was filming a music video in Central Kingston in the middle of general elections, when gunmen shot up a group of people on the corner playing ludo (snakes and ladders) and dominoes.
- With its elongated snake-like body, the Leopard Moray eel moves very gently from one end to the other in the tank.
- A number of dead venomous snakes were also found in the property. Times, Sunday Times
- A bad conscience is a snake in one's heart.
- The overseer, a great strong man, cracking his "blacksnake" from time to time, to enforce authority, excited our strong indignation. 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
- Fuss' photograms have reproduced water droplets, birds in flight, moving light and even a trail of snakes moving across light-sensitive paper, dusted with talcum powder.
- A solid snake of people still wound back along the north shore of the loch.