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Discover LudwigThe phrase "like a serpent" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most often used as a comparison, to describe something's movement or shape. For example, you could say "The river wound through the valley like a serpent" or "The snake slithered across the ground like a serpent."
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My sickness is like a serpent.
"The character is like a serpent," Ms. Guleghina says.
It describes its strategy of fluid manoeuvre as "moving like a serpent between the rocks".
San Pier Niceto ranges like a serpent along a mountain ridge.
And then — ow! — it falls — thud! — it should fall like a serpent.
A screen might curve into an arc if space allows, or undulate like a serpent.
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"And nothing attracts a serpent like a paradise".
An edgy chanteuse with kind of a serpent like expression, moving all over the stage, belting out tunes from far and wide.
Rather than playing on the line between pretty and heavy, tracks like 'Stone to Wake a Serpent' and '20 Minutes / 40 Years' dissolve it".
It is lightly ponderous, like a coiled serpent well versed in platitudes.
It seems to ease itself over bumps and grooves like a great serpent.
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