SNAIL in a Sentence

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19 example sentences for SNAIL, such as:

1. A snail's shell is spiral in form.
2. The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me.
3. Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
4. To execute his message the snail is as sure a messenger as the falcon.
5. I set off at a snail's pace to conserve my energy for later in the race.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNAIL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
snail
 n.  freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
 v.  gather snails
Classic Sentence:
1  "Yas'm," said Prissy and, turning, sauntered down the walk at snail's gait.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  Yet here she was exposed to the sun in a broken-down wagon with a broken-down horse, dirty, sweaty, hungry, helpless to do anything but plod along at a snail's pace through a deserted land.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  He fixed his gaze upon a white sunshade that was advancing at snail's pace from the beach.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In I
4  To execute his message the snail is as sure a messenger as the falcon.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  The green damp hung upon the low walls; the tracks of the snail and slug glistened in the light of the candle; but all was still as death.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  The slowest snail that ever crawled dashed by too fast for me.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In III
7  Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
8  At a hundred human paces from here there sits a little snail in her house, on a gooseberry bush; she is quite lonely, and old enough to be married.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE HAPPY FAMILY
9  I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V.
10  The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE HAPPY FAMILY
11  Here and there stood an apple and a plum-tree, or else one never would have thought that it was a garden; all was burdocks, and there lived the two last venerable old snails.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE HAPPY FAMILY
12  "Black snails, I dare say, there are enough of," said the old one.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE HAPPY FAMILY
13  It was a daylight bird, chuckling over the substance and succulence of the day, over worms, snails, grit, even in sleep.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
14  She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
15  The Hurons are boasters," said Uncas, scornfully; "their 'totem' is a moose, and they run like snails.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26
Example Sentence:
1  The snail slides up the tower at last though the swallow mounteth it sooner.
2  I set off at a snail's pace to conserve my energy for later in the race.
3  A snail's shell is spiral in form.
4  These snails do not occur on low-lying coral islands or atolls.