How to Use king cobra in a Sentence
king cobra
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The bite of a king cobra, for instance, can kill an elephant.
—Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 11 June 2020
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During his visit to the shrine, he is nearly bitten by a king cobra.
—Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2019
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One day, the guards caught a king cobra that slithered dangerously close and cooked the snake for dinner.
—Saudamini Jain, CNN, 20 Mar. 2021
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The snake in the video above is likely a king cobra, a species which lives mainly in the rain forests and plains of India, southern China, and Southeast Asia.
—National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2017
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Widespread and high-profile species such as the king cobra were under threat, the survey revealed.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Apr. 2022
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Costumes to turn me into a spread-winged vampire bat, a king cobra, Papa Smurf.
—Sólveig Eva Magnúsdóttir, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022
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Kylie Jenner dressed up as a king cobra snake and did so by slithering into a bodycon Mugler look.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 1 Nov. 2020
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Unlike vipers, these snakes—which range in size from about 2 feet to the 19-foot-long king cobra of Asia—have long, muscular bodies that propel them rapidly and a lethally erect fang on their upper jaws.
—Eli Greenbaum, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
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Though species like the boomslang or the king cobra are dangerous thanks to their respective poisons, the black mamba is especially deadly due to its speed.
—Daniel Jameson, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2019
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The odds that the average human being will spend any amount of time in their life within ten feet of a king cobra or a geographer's cone snail, let alone experience the venom of one, are slim.
—Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2017
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At some point during this incredibly dangerous fight, the python was bitten by the ultra-venomous king cobra.
—Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 4 Feb. 2018
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Reptiles that live in forest areas, such as the king cobra, are more likely to be threatened with extinction than desert-dwellers, in part because forests face greater human disruptions, the study found.
—Christina Larson, ajc, 27 Apr. 2022
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Later, an unruly king cobra is relocated from an exhibit to a holding pen.
—Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2021
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Only 15 patients exhibited severe symptoms, including a conservationist who had previously been bitten by an eastern green mamba and later died after being bitten by a king cobra.
—Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2022
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Cobra Gold is also well known as an important jungle warfare training exercise, where U.S. soldiers typically have the opportunity to indulge in unique opportunities, including famously drinking king cobra snake blood as part of survival training.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2020
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