How to Use viper in a Sentence

viper

noun
  • Pythons solved one of the problems with the viper study: volume.
    Ellen Airhart, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Charlie's Angels pounces out of the long grass with a viper's speed and a tiger's strength.
    Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Around 1932, Erdős asked, in essence, what if the precipice and pit of vipers are three paces away instead of two?
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
  • At Michigan the viper is always on the field; at Ohio State, the bullet will not be.
    Stephen Means, cleveland.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • But the viper was found in the bedroom of their home's second floor after the first attempt.
    NBC News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • The snake involved is an African bush viper, also known as Atheris squamigera.
    Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Like a viper, Sudimack’s arm shot forward and bashed the Dogman in his nose.
    Michael Deagler, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Hudson was at viper or in the slot and the defensive backs covered.
    Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Asghari spent his youth catching vipers in the mountains by his home in Tehran.
    Jack Brook, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Mild manners aside, if a Gaboon viper bites, God help you.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 June 2020
  • The largest, found in the cantil viper, measured 1.2 inches long and 0.7 inches wide.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And that chatter, in turn, led Kat to pull throw herself into the pit once more — this time the viper pit that is Twitter.
    Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The viper is a blend between a linebacker and safety, and plays a role in seemingly every facet of the game.
    Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2018
  • Hudson spent last spring and offseason getting a crash course in how to play viper.
    Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2018
  • In this image, a female viper, Atheris squamigera, reveals its fangs.
    Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
  • The team tested the effects of DNase on mice injected with viper venom.
    Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2016
  • While Eubank was out running missions, Karen home-schooled the kids and saved them from vipers lurking in the toilet.
    Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
  • Later, we are shown ominous faces buried and staring out from beneath a pit of black vipers.
    Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • But the comment also verifies press reports that this White House is a nest of vipers.
    Jeet Heer, New Republic, 20 June 2017
  • One of its many predators is the sidewinder rattlesnake, a two-foot long viper weighing in at a little over seven ounces.
    James Gorman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Imagine that you are imprisoned in a tunnel that opens out onto a precipice two paces to your left, and a pit of vipers two paces to your right.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
  • But mistaking a viper for a tree root meant elimination from the gene pool.
    Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2013
  • Jordan Glasgow has taken snaps at viper, so has Brad Hawkins.
    Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2018
  • Some Folsom Lake boaters got a rude surprise last year when a viper crept onto their vessel.
    Benjy Egel, sacbee, 9 May 2018
  • They have been seen hunting lizards and are able to mate with other viper species to produce hybrid offspring.
    Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
  • There's more to playing viper in Brown's system than rushing the quarterback.
    Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2019
  • Though babies are frequently born at the Milwaukee Zoo, this is the first time for rhino vipers.
    Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2019
  • There were laughing vipers, yapping gargoyles, salamanders fanning the fire with their breath, and monsters that sneezed in the smoke.
    Ken Follett, Smithsonian, 15 Apr. 2019
  • The rabbits’ range has shrunk over the years, and the rabbits have also been preyed upon by invasive mongooses that had been introduced to curb viper populations in the area.
    Kate Golembiewski, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Future tests might focus on tree-dwelling species, or on vipers like rattlesnakes, which recent research suggested prefer to den with kin and get less stressed around other snakes.
    Asher Elbein, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024

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