How to Use snake pit in a Sentence

snake pit

noun

• Dykes had set a booby trap: a snake pit of cables blocking the way into the bunker.
  — CBS News, 6 Oct. 2020
• So instead, Edward decided to throw his son into the snake pit and hope for the best.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
• Mayes essays a preacher who is falling off the edge into, well, a snake pit of his own design.
  — al, 1 Mar. 2021
• That’s still too many days away, but walking into the snake pit of Ohio Stadium will be here before anyone knows it.
  — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
• Get used to these stories because, in my experience, state houses are real snake pits in this regard.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
• Trustees, worried about mounting deficits, hired Weiss to right the ship both financially and management-wise since, under Campbell, a bit of a snake pit had developed.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Nov. 2021
• Powell, blessed with more intelligence and common sense than ego, was too smart to get involved in the snake pit of presidential politics.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 19 Oct. 2021
• This involved taking matter from a smallpox patient’s pustule—a snake pit of live virus—and applying it to the pricked skin of an uninfected person, then covering the spot with a linen rag.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
• As Mao drove Chiang and his forces to Taiwan and unified the mainland under Communist tyranny, his good name back home fell into a snake pit of paranoiac partisanship.
  — James D. Hornfischer, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• But for now, the ecological splendor of Florida’s humongous snake pit is left literally in the hands of the individual brave women and men who try to haul them down one snake a time.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
• Breslin Center channeled all of its frustration and bitterness and sadness of one of the longest months in school history into a snake pit environment that long has been missing.
  — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2018
• Perks for the in-the-flesh audience include being able to take in all of Stephanie Osin Cohen’s beautiful stage picture, a Boschian profusion of industrial lights and set pieces and rolling cameras tied together by a snake pit of cables.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 June 2022
• Associating such pleasures and recollections with the era’s snake pit of gangsterism is meant to dispel nostalgia.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2019
• If the government throws an individual into a snake pit, and the individual is not harmed by the snakes, but hurts himself escaping the pit, the government has still placed the individual in danger that has caused the individual harm.
  — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 2 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024