How to Use anaconda in a Sentence

anaconda

noun

• That was my first idea, to make J.Lo wet and have a huge anaconda all over my body!
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 31 Jan. 2022
• The scientists still have many questions about why the dolphins held the anaconda.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022
• At the time, the guides were astonished by the anaconda's behavior.
  — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2017
• The reticulated python is longer in length than a green anaconda.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
• Grandma Betty had a hug that would make an anaconda weep.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 6 May 2020
• But the craziest thing was this giant anaconda that our wildlife guys caught.
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 27 Feb. 2018
• Tell you what: Turns out I get eaten by that anaconda, there’s a ten-dollar bill in an envelope with your name on it.
  — Sloane Crosley, The Cut, 26 Mar. 2018
• On Exile, Brendan and I saw a full contingent of crew members wrestling with an anaconda.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2021
• That’s the case for anacondas, for instance, who are native to warm, tropical climates.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
• But today there are around 4,000 species of snakes, ranging in size from green anacondas that weigh more than adult gorillas to thread snakes that are lighter than a paperclip.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
• More than a million of these snakes—including the giant Burmese python, boa constrictors, and several kinds of anaconda—have come to the United States in the last 30 years as pets.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 21 Jan. 2010
• Its animal residents include the heaviest snake in the world, a massive green anaconda, and a jaguar named Tesoro.
  — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2020
• Houston rapper Paul Wall had a custom Nolan Ryan replica made that features anaconda skin on the letters and logo.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017
• Critics of the stunt argue that a human’s shoulder width is too wide to fit the anaconda’s body, which could cause the animal physical and emotional pain.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2014
• When the sun goes down, we were told, the Brazilian wandering spiders, bullet ants, poison dart frogs, snakes, giant centipedes, jaguars, anacondas and black caimans come out.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
• Her parents even bought a wall-to-wall terrarium, filling it with three massive snakes: a Burmese python, an anaconda and a boa constrictor.
  — Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• After a large meal, an anaconda can go without eating for months, depending on the size of the ingested animal.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2022
• Katz keeps the majority of the stage looking sooty with pinpricks of light illuminating each actor, as if the action takes place in the belly of a coal-burning anaconda.
  — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
• Our commissioners just took a really strong stance on the yellow anaconda.
  — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 18 July 2019
• Another notable entry, Matching Outfits, shows a stunning freeze frame of a female jaguar and her cub with a meal of anaconda suspended between them, a la Lady and the Tramp.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
• This team is more like an anaconda, brutally effective at close quarters.
  — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2019
• In Anaconda, a documentary crew is taken hostage by a snake hunter attempting to find a giant anaconda along the Amazon River.
  — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2022
• Toucans observed in the care of tour operators were found with abscesses on their feet, while anacondas were found injured and dehydrated.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 3 Oct. 2017
• The three columns of protesters undulated toward the cathedral on Managua's south side like giant anacondas of blue-and-white, the colors of the Nicaraguan national flag that nearly all the demonstrators waved.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 28 Apr. 2018
• Prehistoric Snakes Spanning well over 40 feet from tip to tail, this colossal serpent — longer than a school bus and nearly as heavy as a shipping container — is thought to be a distant relative of boa constrictors and anacondas.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• There are the inherent dangers of the jungle, from limited to no access to cell or internet services, to natural predators like anacondas and venomous spiders.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 June 2023
• The meandering rivers have strong currents and teem with predators, including piranhas and anacondas.
  — Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
• More than a third of the world’s animal species live there including three-toed sloths, Amazon River dolphins, Amazonian manatees, anacondas, piranhas, and much more.
  — Danielle Pointdujour, Essence, 6 Jan. 2020
• The table between them was strewn with artifacts and reproductions representing the trade in exotic animal products: an anaconda skin, a turtle shell, a replica elephant tusk and bear foot.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• The strange interlude lasted seven minutes, reports Business Insider’s Kelsey Vlamis, and the semiaquatic anaconda most likely perished from being submerged for so long.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024