How to Use snail in a Sentence

snail

noun

• It’s a geo glyph, and the walkways are shaped like a snail.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022
• Large snails: British workers find a very large snail in the mail.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
• The largest snail found so far in Pasco was 4.5 inches.
  — al, 8 July 2022
• An octopus brain is more like the brain of a snail than that of a human.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• That, in turn, allows snails, which the crabs like to consume, to prosper.
  — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Real snail mucin is clear and applies like a thick gel.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 26 Feb. 2024
• Queen conch, the key food species, is a marine snail that reaches up to a foot in length and can live for 30 years.
  — Patrick Whittle, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• At full size, the snails measure between two and six inches in length.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Paths paved with stones from the quarry swirl in snail shapes up to platforms, terraces, and pedestals.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• The mucin and secretion filtrate does come from the snails, but there’s also more to it.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
• This isn't the first time that snail mucin has been buzzy as a skin care ingredient.
  — Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2023
• Some of the world’s largest snails were recently found right here in metro Detroit.
  — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2023
• For this sale, three of its most popular snail mucin picks are marked down even more.
  — Buy Side Staff, wsj.com, 10 Oct. 2023
• That causes the fish’s blood sugar to plummet, stunning them so the snail can capture and eat the fish.
  — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
• The presence of the organism — thought to be a sea snail — kept the 14-deck Viking Orion adrift 16 miles off the coast of Adelaide, Australia.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• Oyster drills, the snails that are one of the oyster’s main predators, hate it and tend to avoid oysters so exposed.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 2 June 2023
• And this isn't the snail's first appearance in Florida.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
• The only other time the state declared the snail eradicated was in 1975.
  — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
• But the problem doesn’t stop with snail slime; there are allegedly fake brand-name perfumes and trendy to-go cups.
  — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
• The giant African land snail isn't the only pest harmful to agriculture.
  — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 20 June 2023
• The preparation is simple and all about the butter, which wafts up from those big, bulbous snail shells.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2022
• If the cochlea were a snail’s shell, the vestibular organs—the saccule, the utricle, and three semicircular canals—would make up the snail’s body.
  — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
• Of the hundreds of cartoons Mr. Gross published there, the most famous is of two snails chatting near a tape dispenser.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
• There is a small snail on its face, and its display also includes a backlight.
  — Max Berlinger, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Give dry and dull winter skin a boost with the moisture-retaining power of snail mucin.
  — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 8 Nov. 2022
• The Turbo comes with the classic whale tail, wide rear stance, and an extra snail that nests in the engine compartment.
  — Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2022
• The process moves at a snail’s pace, and there will be ample time and forums to vet the issues, many of which are legitimate.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
• Officials say a live snail was last found in that area in 2017, prior to the most recent sighting last week.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 June 2022
• As a generational business, change often moves at a snail’s pace in the wine industry.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2024
• Amid the tumult, there are brief, blissfully peaceful shots of ants skittering up and down a wall, and also of a snail slithering across Sol’s open palm.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024