SNAKE in a Sentence

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For SNAKE, below is one of 101 sentences:
Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.

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 Meanings and Examples of SNAKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
snake
 n.  a long faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near the equator stretching between Virgo and Cancer
 n.  something long, thin, and flexible that resembles a snake
Classic Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
1  She heard something rustling on the matting and when she looked down she saw a little snake gliding along and watching her with eyes like jewels.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  It was true that there was no one in the bungalow but herself and the little rustling snake.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  These despised themselves, as being the dupes of a wily fraud, a guileful snake in the grass.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  About this time I mighty near stepped on a good-sized snake, and it went sliding off through the grass and flowers, and I after it, trying to get a shot at it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
5  Well, by night I forgot all about the snake, and when Jim flung himself down on the blanket while I struck a light the snake's mate was there, and bit him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
6  He was barefooted, and the snake bit him right on the heel.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
7  That all comes of my being such a fool as to not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake its mate always comes there and curls around it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
8  Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X.
9  But de trouble all done ef de snake bite me while I's a tryin him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
10  When he had carefully locked the door, he lifted up the cover, and saw a white snake lying on the dish.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WHITE SNAKE
11  Eating the snake had given him power of understanding the language of animals.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE WHITE SNAKE
12  So he once more searched the whole palace through, till at last he found a white snake, lying coiled up on a cushion in one of the chambers.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE KING OF THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN
13  The boy placed himself by the brink of the well, and often saw a golden fish or a golden snake show itself therein, and took care that nothing fell in.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In IRON HANS
14  Caesar, poisoned at the same time, escaped by shedding his skin like a snake; but the new skin was spotted by the poison till it looked like a tiger's.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18. The Treasure.
15  Louise slid through the half-open gate like a snake, and bounded lightly forward.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 97. The Departure for Belgium.
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  The farmer cut at the snake with a stick.
17  I mistook the stick for a snake.
18  They kept whiskey to antidote themselves against snake bike.
19  He should suck the poison from the place where the snake bit.
20  They wouldn't rest until the large black snake, which appears to be nocturnal, is no longer free.
21  She found the snake repugnant and looked on it with loathing and fear.
22  The snake moved in a sinuous manner.
23  In Dances with Snakes, the snake dancer wriggled sinuously and made her python writhe around her torso.
24  The snake will regenerate its tail next week.
25  Shoppers are buying red lanterns, scrolls with poetic couplets, paper cuttings and plush snake toys to express their best wishes for the Lunar New Year and decorate their homes.
26  Each spring, the snakes slough off their skin.
27  With fangs one and a quarter-inch-long, this viper is one of the most venomous snakes in the world.
28  The murky depths of the swamp were so dark that one couldn't tell the vines and branches from the snakes.
29  He said they was crawling up his legs; and then he would give a jump and scream, and say one had bit him on the cheek -- but I couldn't see no snakes.
30  They were sometimes held in swampy areas thick with snakes and mosquitoes.