How to Use nonvenomous in a Sentence

nonvenomous

adjective
  • The head of the 10-foot nonvenomous diamond python emerged through a space in a shelf above the spice jars in the Sydney store.
    NBC News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Rat snakes are nonvenomous and common across much of Texas.
    Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • So your chances of coming across a nonvenomous one are pretty good.
    Nancy Clanton, ajc, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Pythons and other large nonvenomous snakes kill their prey by constricting them, which cuts off blood flow through the prey’s body.
    Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Like most Texas snakes, checkered garter snakes are nonvenomous.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • And as the parks division said, these nonvenomous snakes are harmless.
    Michelle Lou, CNN, 11 June 2019
  • Boa constrictors are nonvenomous snakes that kill their prey by squeezing them in their strong coils.
    Forrest Brown, CNN, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Watch how to tell the difference between a deadly cottonmouth snake and a nonvenomous rat snake in this video.
    Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 15 June 2018
  • Officials said 124 snakes, both venomous and nonvenomous, were removed from the home.
    Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
  • But around month ago, the wildlife-loving pharmaceutical researcher just had to get hands-on with a small nonvenomous snake for its own good.
    René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The calls come in for snakes of all varieties, including nonvenomous gopher, garter, king, racer, rosy boa and rat snakes.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The nonvenomous 17-foot constrictor then tried to wrap herself around the sweating Kirkland, who slipped through coil after coil.
    Max G. Levy, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Unlike cobras, vipers and rattlesnakes, a Burmese python is nonvenomous.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Tait found the culprits – a pair of nonvenomous carpet pythons – slithering through his bedroom and living room.
    Fox News, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Case in point: Corn snakes, a popular, nonvenomous pet which winds around prey constrictor-style, love dining on mice.
    Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Because fire officials don’t have the tools or time to relocate snakes, they usually are forced to kill them, even snakes that are nonvenomous.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The Burmese python is a large nonvenomous constrictor that is an invasive species in Florida.
    Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2022
  • More straightforward was a request to remove a nonvenomous carpet python, its body intricately patterned with whorls and swirls, coiled in the depths of a shed.
    Natasha Frost David Maurice Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • According to Newsweek, reticulated pythons, which are nonvenomous, can grow to be 20 feet long and are native to Southeast Asia.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Australia, for instance, has more venomous snakes than nonvenomous ones.
    Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
  • All the new serpents belong to the genera Dipsas or Sibon, which are nonvenomous, tree-dwelling, snail-eating snakes found in South America.
    Alejandro Arteaga, National Geographic, 14 June 2018
  • Not all experts agree that the general public should be allowed to hunt for nonvenomous pythons, which seize prey with their teeth and kill by constricting their bodies.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 3 Feb. 2015
  • After releasing Udon, the nonvenomous training snake, from his bucket, Hymes began to handle the snake.
    Claire Rafford, azcentral, 28 Feb. 2019
  • Eastern indigos are native to the southeastern U.S. and are considered the largest nonvenomous snake in the country.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 July 2021
  • According to the Observer, the snake was identified as a nonvenomous brown water snake by the North Carolina Zoo.
    Fox News, 7 June 2019
  • However, unlike a rattlesnake, a gopher snake is nonvenomous and its tail does not rattle.
    Johana Restrepo, azcentral, 26 Apr. 2017
  • Cadden added that after speaking to a Game and Fish expert on reptiles, the slithery creature appeared to be a gopher snake, one of the most common nonvenomous snakes in Arizona.
    Rey Covarrubias Jr., The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2024
  • Covington and a family friend were riding a four-wheeler when the friend, who has not been named by authorities, shot and killed a nonvenomous snake on the property.
    Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 12 June 2018
  • In his 47 years of collecting and rescuing the scaly reptiles, Ireland said he’s never been bitten by a venomous snake, though he has been nipped many times by frightened nonvenomous snakes.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2022
  • That’s not a surprise, says Penning, since venomous and nonvenomous snakes capture similarly quick prey, such as rabbits and mice.
    National Geographic, 18 Apr. 2016

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