How to Use serpent in a Sentence

serpent

noun

• The Lord’s answer is the serpent, the snowy skin and the muddy Nile as blood.
  — Jeremy England, WSJ, 24 Sep. 2020
• The serpent is thought by most to be about to swallow an egg.
  — cleveland.com, 25 May 2017
• Now that the snake's out of the cage, J.K. is spilling the tea leaves on how Nagini got to be a serpent in the first place.
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 25 Sep. 2018
• And then, like with a chain email, Eve shares the serpent's news with Adam, who turns out to be just as gullible.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• When God rebuked them, Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent.
  — wsj.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Eve tries to correct the serpent, and in doing so, falls for his trap.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2018
• Keep an eye out for the huge serpent sculpture near Southshore Park.
  — Robin Soslow, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
• The ship had an unusual carving of a serpent’s head in the bow.
  — John Seewer, The Seattle Times, 23 Apr. 2018
• The ship had an unusual carving of a serpent's head in the bow.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2018
• But the snakey Time Warp showed more footwork than any serpent could dream of pulling off.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 29 Oct. 2019
• Some scholars think Guinea worms may have been the fiery serpents said in the Bible to have attacked the Israelites in the desert.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2018
• In a third clip, which went up at 10 a.m. Wednesday, the head of what turned out to be a serpent was revealed.
  — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 25 Aug. 2017
• Death is something very present in the culture—think of the flag, the serpent and the eagle, the native peoples...
  — Ramón Barreto, Vogue, 11 Feb. 2023
• The paintings, the stark beauty of the area and the Kumeyaay myth of the serpent of knowledge helped Mogt complete his mission.
  — Beth Wood, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• Some say eating the serpent-like eel is good luck, warding off the devil in the new year.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• Moral for everyone else: Trust not the soothing words of the serpent.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
• All the while, a serpent lurked, in this family and beyond it.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
• As the evening reached a raucous apex, a few of the revelers rode atop the giant serpent, which has yet to be named.
  — The Masked Observer, al, 18 Feb. 2022
• The 26-year-old man, whose name has not yet been released, was bitten by the serpent on July 14.
  — Madeline Farber, Fox News, 31 July 2018
• The serpent detailing on the clutch also matched her bracelets.
  — Chrissy Rutherford, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Jan. 2013
• Think instead of the serpent’s sunnier side—as rings, bracelets, and necklaces.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2024
• The blood of a basilisk, a black tick taken from the left ear of a cat, a stone bitten by a mad dog, the right eye of a live serpent—such are some of the charms or medicines.
  — Robert Shackleton, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The ritual, known as the Sarpamedha Yagna has been organised to rid the earth of serpents.
  — Girish Shahane, Quartz India, 30 Aug. 2019
• What are the smallest sized cosmic serpents that will be required for these?
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2017
• The ancient serpent lived in the steamy swamps of the Eocene over 40 million years ago, in what is now northeastern Colombia.
  — Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• So, for now, all fans have is this strange, slithering serpent.
  — Hilary Weaver, Vanities, 21 Aug. 2017
• The police report did not state who took possession of the serpent.
  — Joan Rusek, cleveland.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• The shape undulated like a serpent in slow motion, a ghost in the heavens.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 29 July 2021
• Rewritten in Go, my pitiful serpent grew wings and took off, running 30 times faster.
  — Sheon Han, WIRED, 23 Sep. 2024
• Just think of the serpent in the Garden of Eden who misrepresented God's command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil to entice the first humans to do just that.
  — Pia Lauritzen, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024