How to Use mamba in a Sentence

mamba

noun

• The black mamba gets its name for the inside of its mouth, which is black.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
• This is what makes the black mamba one of the deadliest animals around the world.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2021
• A golfer in South Africa stopped in the middle of a game to film two black mamba snakes entwined in a fierce battle over a female on the green.
  — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
• Here’s a video of a snake expert removing a black mamba.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2021
• Like the black mamba, the color of the inside of the cottonmouth moccasin’s mouth inspires its name, not its scales.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2022
• So why does the black mamba have potent painkillers in its arsenal?
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
• Sniffing a chance to make some bucks, Sammy orders a black mamba from a friend in Boise, Idaho.
  — Gerald Bartell, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• These range from observing the approach of a mamba in Kenya to being let out of a speeding ticket at 2 a.m. in New York.
  — Bill Heavey, WSJ, 27 May 2022
• In April, Gifford said he was bitten by a West African green mamba while cleaning the enclosures in his home.
  — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
• Two drops are enough to kill you, and an angry mamba gives multiple bites, squirting lots and lots of venom with each one.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 June 2020
• Even Chandler, however, didn’t see the need to have sections narrated by a black mamba.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• Temperamentally, the Gaboon viper is at the opposite end of the spectrum from the black mamba.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 June 2020
• Without antivenom, a bite from a black mamba snake is usually lethal.
  — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
• Without antivenom, a bite from a black mamba snake is usually lethal.
  — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
• The venom of the black mamba snake, one of the world’s deadliest poisons administered by one of the world’s deadliest reptiles, can kill you within half an hour.
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2012
• If an attacker does not back down, the black mamba will strike it over and over, injecting a plethora of potent neurotoxins each time.
  — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
• If an attacker does not back down, the black mamba will strike it over and over, injecting a plethora of potent neurotoxins each time.
  — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
• 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
• 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, CNT, 10 July 2017
• The coral snake is a whole different genus from the other venomous snakes of Alabama, being more closely related to the cobra or black mamba than the copperhead.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2022
• Last year, researchers from Denmark and Costa Rica used such a method to make experimental antidotes that saved mice from the venom of the black mamba, a deadly African snake.
  — Megan Molteni, Wired, 6 Jan. 2020
• The venom of the green mamba — one the most dangerous snakes in Africa — might one day help to treat people who have a genetic disorder that affects the kidneys, according to a new study conducted in mice.
  — Fox News, 23 June 2017
• Green mamba bites may cause dizziness, nausea and irregular heartbeat , and can be fatal.
  — Fox News, 23 June 2017
• Ramirez concentrates specifically on the Northern Pacific and prairie rattlesnakes that frequent Northern California, but he has been called on to remove a black mamba and a cobra.
  — Scott Strazzante, SFChronicle.com, 28 July 2019
• While mamba venom toxins already have medical potential, the variations that exist now represent merely a snapshot in time in the long evolutionary history of these compounds.
  — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2017
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024