How to Use python in a Sentence

python

noun
  • The study notes that the deer consumed by the python in the clip was 66.9% of the snake's mass.
    Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Summer is the best time of year to see a Burmese python.
    Jennifer Borresen, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The pythons do try to make the most of their abilities though.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Since that time, more than 2,500 pythons have been killed by hunters.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The python was lying on the side of the road in the town of Medford on Long Island.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The duo says the best time to remove pythons is in the middle of the night when the pythons are the most active.
    Sydney Bishop, CNN, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Per reports, the python was 13 feet long and weighed more than 45 lbs.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Seeing the python extend to its full length gave the group pause.
    Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
  • The python, which has not been given a name, laid the eggs July 23.
    CBS News, 11 Sep. 2020
  • This year’s prize for the longest snake went to Dustin Crum for a python that stretched just over 11 feet.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That’s the case for some of the Asian Vipers or American rattlesnakes, or pythons and boas.
    Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • With the triumph of the moment waning, Pavlidis handed the python over to Kalil.
    Rebecca Renner, Outside Online, 14 May 2020
  • In Southeast Asia, the Burmese python has been nearly snuffed out.
    Marion Renault, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The one that was not removed shows a live rabbit being fed to a python.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The resident told OnScene TV the snake was a 10-foot ball python.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • And this guy comes on a motorcycle, slid down the bank and lept up on this python.
    Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Scientists think the python that snagged the opossum must have been about 16 feet long.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The snapshot shows all four snake catchers holding the lengthy python.
    Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • According to Kalil, the most humane way to kill a python is with a shot to the brain or blunt-force trauma to the head.
    Rebecca Renner, Outside Online, 14 May 2020
  • The largest snake found in the house was a 14-foot Burmese python, according to officials.
    Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Senanayake said the patient lived near a lake that was also home to carpet pythons.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But Prairie Dog isn’t the only collared mammal that has faced a python.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • But Burmese pythons may be the most infamous invaders of all.
    Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Myself and Tina dragging a 10-foot python out of our camp and throwing it across the river.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • In October, a pair of hunters captured an 18-foot, 9-inch Burmese python that set a record.
    Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The previous longest Burmese python, the group said, was 18 feet and 9 inches long.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 July 2023
  • One visitor, a Burmese python named Mr. Long John, used to be a tiny baby but grew and grew.
    Sara Cardine, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
  • The largest python captured so far in South Florida was more than 18 feet long.
    orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Carpet pythons were at a lake area near where the woman lived, the article said.
    Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023

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