The word 'snake' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to a type of long, legless reptile with a scaly skin. Here is an example: "I saw a snake in my garden this morning!"
Madeline Willis Doubtfully, the four of us look down at the coils of rope affectionately known as the snake pit; then up at the 90ft mast above our heads.
Of course they know him, and as we turn and cruise past to say hello to "Bura", he casually tosses a snake into our boat.
The yellow, green, blue or pink metal structures snake over the busy streets that lead to the stations of the city's rail network.
Over the years I had begun to think of him as a demagogue who'd struck it lucky, but in that moment, the silky fluency of his tone, combined with the sharpness of the glance he gave me was like a snake striking: and suddenly, like a new insight, it hit me that here was a dangerous old man.
The League Managers Association stepped up in August to comment on Malky Mackay's "gay snake", "fkn chinky" and "fat Jew" texts, issuing the year's defining press release phrase: "These were two text messages sent in private at a time Malky felt under great pressure and when he was letting off steam to a friend, during some friendly text message banter".
Clustering isn't the only way to understand the trends in big data; exotic mathematical functions can snake through the clouds predicting changes over time, populations of complex mathematical rule sets can be evolved with only the best surviving.
Some, like the Solomon's seal whose snake-like shoots we found forcing their way through the silt left by winter floods, may well be relicts from gardens of water mills that disappeared long ago.
We just panic-bought every bullshit snake-oil sleep-aid we could find on the internet, in the desperate hope that one of them would work.
Speak to advisers, ministers, party workers and others who spend time with him, and the impression emerges of a decent man, shy in public, keen on development work and out of place in the snake-pit of politics.
For their own sakes, Scottish voters should reject their political snake-oil.Britain once ran the world.
As weeks go by, that makes him sound more like a seller of snake-oil than of snake-blood.
