How to Use snake in a Sentence

snake

1 of 2 noun

• I thought she was my friend, but she turned out to be a snake in the grass.
• At some point, the head will need to be cut off of the snake.
  — Douglas J. Feith, National Review, 24 Oct. 2023
• The garden was built first, and then the snake figured out how to get in.
  — Paiman Allage, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• The look was made even more rock-and-roll by a snake wrapped around the actress' neck.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 25 Mar. 2024
• The snake, which was more than nine feet long, could have eaten the birds.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
• What did one snake say to the other on Valentine’s Day?
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2023
• There’s a big ol’ tank of venomous snakes that pays off big-time.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 16 Nov. 2023
• One girl, no more than 10 years old, wiggles a found piece of string on the ground, like a snake.
  — Erin O'Brien, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2023
• Her brown mane swirls and snakes, reaching for the surface.
  — Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The Timber Rattlesnake is the other venomous snake found in the area.
  — Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
• The easiest way to start using the drain snake is to feed it down the drain slowly from the sink.
  — Angela Belt, House Beautiful, 29 Mar. 2023
• The f---ing goddamn snake’s tongue is flicking out at me.
  — Elizabeth Leonard, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
• There’s more to cleaning a gun than running a bore snake through the barrel.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 27 Feb. 2023
• There’s a lot of direct-to-video schlock like Medusa, a movie about a lady with snakes in her hair.
  — PCMAG, 26 Mar. 2024
• There are no more than eight guns at the ranch, mainly used to kill feral hogs and snakes, McGillis said.
  — Michael Williams, Dallas News, 20 July 2023
• The head of the snake is in Mexico, and that is where the main thrust of our efforts must be directed.
  — William P. Barr, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2023
• The actress, 56, proudly held on to a snake and wrapped it around her neck for the new photoshoot.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• The devil kisses him on each shoulder, out of which grow two snakes.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• And the hemiclitores are important to the snakes themselves.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
• In the board game analogy, this would be the first slide down on a snake, Harper explains.
  — Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2024
• The reptiles are considered the heaviest snakes in the world.
  — Charlotte Phillipp, Peoplemag, 26 Feb. 2024
• Together, the two race against time to reveal who is a songbird and who is a snake.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Nov. 2023
• Dodged some snakes and climbed a Mayan temple at one point, but that’s hardly the most hair-raising event of the last 12 months.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2023
• The entire concert is a spectacle — all black and red, smoke and snakes.
  — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2024
• Meanwhile, above in his tiger cage, Wallingford too was worried about the snakes.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 29 May 2023
• Remove the drain screen and give it a good cleaning and, if necessary, use a plunger or plumber’s snake to clear the drain.
  — Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2024
• Today, a dozen freeways snake across about 527 miles of L.A., and many more crisscross the county.
  — Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
• Place two small dabs of mustard on the snake’s head and top with peppercorns to create eyes.
  — Charlyne Mattox, Country Living, 27 July 2023
• From the beginning of our lifetime, we’ve been taught that the buzz of a bee or the hiss of a snake usually means danger.
  — Nadjya Ghausi, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• In the spring of 1995, dozens of snakes appeared on the beaches of Southern California.
  — Parul Sehgal, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023

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snake

2 of 2 verb

• The road snakes through the mountains.
• He snaked his way through the crowd.
• Cables snaked across the floor.
• Technicians snaked cables through the set.
• As the show began, the line to get in still snaked around the block.
  — Amy Zimmerman, Vulture, 18 June 2023
• The lines of ticketholders that snake around the block were M.I.A.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2021
• Aside from the snaking windows, the most striking feature in the lounge is the bar.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• Winsor Dim Sum Café, where lines snake out the door and down the block by lunchtime.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2022
• Long lines snake out of the William Hill Sportsbook just off the casino floor.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• On TikTok, those who braved the line, which snaked around the block twice, showed off their spoils.
  — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 May 2023
• Side streams snake their way from the river, and there’s a nearby dam.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 17 May 2021
• The tiger snakes of Perth have heavy metals in their livers.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 17 Jan. 2024
• On the weekends, the line outside the new Beacon Hill Books sometimes snakes out the door.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023
• If there was a window open, the cord would snake into the house and get hooked on a doorknob.
  — Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
• Rivers snake their way through what appears to be a sea of endless green.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• Now, long lines snake outside gas stations on the eve of price hikes each month.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2022
• The hike takes you into a scene from an old fairy tale, as big old pine trees snake up the mountain.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2021
• At times, lines started to snake through the store as people waited for a turn.
  — Saam Niami, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• One night, three years ago, while snaking through the dark bends of Topanga Canyon, Steve Lacy came face to face with death.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
• That district snakes from McAllen, at the border, to the east side of San Antonio.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• Today, weeds grow from the fissures that snake across the courts, and the softball field is riddled with holes.
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2022
• The best views are on two feet, on any of the more than 400 miles of hiking trails that snake their way through red rock country.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 7 Apr. 2022
• The wine region of verdant hills snaked by vines is considered one of the most picturesque in the world.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The lockdown threatens to snarl other supply chains that snake through the coastal city, too.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2022
• Just snake the semi-rigid tube into anything and the WF010 beams live video feed to your phone.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 25 June 2021
• Chances to snake those prize buyers away don’t come along every day.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2021
• Simply snake the semi-rigid tube into any tight space and the WF010 beams video back to your phone.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 4 June 2021
• The event led hundreds to queue up for hours in a line that snaked through the West Village streets for what appeared to be longer than a mile.
  — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2023
• The system is easy to set up and doesn’t need cables snaking everywhere.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• The line formed long before 10 a.m., when the first fish was set to be served, snaking from the harbor to the promenade through the ancient archway.
  — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024