Sentence examples for snakes from inspiring English sources

The word 'snakes' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a multiple number of the reptiles, or as a verb to describe the action of the animal. For example, "The park is filled with snakes, making it dangerous to walk through."

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When the Manus camp flooded, detainees found snakes in their rooms.

You don't hear the news, you don't hear what's going on," he told the Smithsonian magazine, which reported the team facing "poisonous snakes, killer bees and army ants".

It's not far from the riverbank to the picnic tables and playgrounds, but the wild brush here, as in many parts of sun-baked south Texas, holds hazards: snakes, spiders, mosquitos and more.

The incredible success of the wines has drawn attention to the Douro river valley that snakes from Barca d'Alva on the Spanish border to Oporto.

The narrow but hugely extended gulch that snakes down from the lifeless upper reaches of Lascar and finishes in the Atacama desert is a thin vein of life where many creatures find sanctuary.

Afterwards, Carlyle slunk off to America to make dodgy sci-fi TV shows and Jackson primarily became known for being the bloke out of Snakes on a Plane.

With a boom and a blast and a great ball of fire, they create a mushroom cloud of magic that boils, twists, stabs and flashes, and takes on the shape of "a misty bundle of fighting snakes" and then "an enormous cat fight that yowls across the roofs".

The Leicester Mercury wrote of one scheme: "Dozens of youngsters … filled the road, drawing with chalk, playing giant snakes and ladders, hopscotch or table tennis and generally enjoying the freedom of the thoroughfare, which is normally a busy cut-through used by motorists".

It had been loud and very boozy all evening, with the patient and professional stewards booed every time they broke up the tedious, anti-social and dangerous beer snakes.

Weavers' dwellings were overgrown, the thatch alive with birds, snakes and insects, while roussettes – bats small and multi-coloured as butterflies – flew in and out of earth-mounds that had been homes; hunched vultures surveyed tracts of land in which the human voice was stilled.

Despite my worries about snakes and scorpions, the glory of waking up to the sunrise in the Red Centre got my adrenaline going like never before.

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