Sample Sentences for
venom
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

venom as in:  snake venom

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The rattlesnake's venom is deadly.
venom = poison
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    She tried to suck the venom out of the bite.
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    It was a cobra, whose venom could kill a person in minutes.  (source)
    venom = poison created by some insects and animals such as snakes
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    She's so small, it wouldn't take much venom to do her in.  (source)
    venom = poison
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    The basilisk venom had burned a sizzling hole right through it.  (source)
    venom = poison
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    He was plenty scared now, with nine venomous snakes crawling around his feet.  (source)
    venomous = capable of injecting poison with a bite
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    "Oh, she's amazing," I'd said venomously.†  (source)
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    The Five Deadly Venoms.†  (source)
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    His wand and holy words, the viper's rage, And venom'd wounds of serpents could assuage.†  (source)
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    For there, on the back of the small boy's hand, on the fingers, and up along the wrist scrambled blue serpents, blue-venomed snake eyes, blue scorpions scuttling about blue shark maws which gaped eternally hungry to feed upon all the freaks crammed and stung-sewn cheek by jowl, skin to skin, flesh to flesh all up and down the chest, the tiny torso, and tucked in the secret gathering places on this small small very small body, this cold and now shocked and trembling body.†  (source)
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    Sometimes it seemed an insane idea, just as it had on the night Hermione had proposed it, but at others, he had found himself thinking about the spells that had served him best in his various encounters with Dark creatures and Death Eaters — found himself, in fact, subconsciously planning lessons...'Well,' he said slowly, when he could no longer pretend to find Asiatic AntiVenoms interesting, 'yeah, I — I've thought about it a bit.'†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antivenoms means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
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    It took a moment for the venom to sink in.  (source)
    venom = poison
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    With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.  (source)
    venomous = poisonous (figuratively)
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    'Give my love to your wife — my sister: he called after me venomously.†  (source)
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venom as in:  jealousy-fueled venom

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It was a terrible fight. Both were spewing venom and said things they wish they had not said.
venom = intense feelings of hatred or anger
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    The remarks were fueled by venom and jealousy.
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    It was a voice, a voice to chill the bone marrow, a voice of breathtaking, ice-cold venom.  (source)
    venom = harmful intent
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    Without turning around, Papa answered calmly, but with venom, "Well, don't ask her, either."  (source)
    venom = with anger or harmful intent
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    There was suddenly venom in her voice.  (source)
    venom = intense feelings of hatred or anger
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    It's impossible for me to be all smiles one day and venomous the next.  (source)
    venomous = filled with intense feelings of hatred or anger
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    In an intellectual way, Syme was venomously orthodox.  (source)
    venomously = in a manner that is filled with intense feelings of hatred or anger
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    She hurried after Mama, knowing that she might never come back to her home again, and her heart filled with venom for Tio Luis.  (source)
    venom = intense feelings of anger
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    As the thin voice ended, Goodwife Cruff drew in her breath through her teeth in a venomous hiss.  (source)
    venomous = filled with intense feelings of hatred or anger
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    "Just shut up!" says Risa, her voice full of venom and accusation.  (source)
    venom = intense feelings of anger
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    Perhaps his superiors wanted to rid the Imperial Guards of an unstable and venomous soldier, or perhaps they wanted to put his volatility to use.  (source)
    venomous = harmful
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    Snape shot a look of pure venom at Harry and Ron as he allowed himself to be swept out of his office, leaving them alone with Professor McGonagall, who was still eyeing them like a wrathful eagle.  (source)
    venom = intense feelings of hatred or anger
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    Of an impulsive and passionate nature, she had fortified herself to encounter the stings and venomous stabs of public contumely, wreaking itself in every variety of insult; but there was a quality so much more terrible in the solemn mood of the popular mind, that she longed rather to behold all those rigid countenances contorted with scornful merriment, and herself the object.  (source)
    venomous = harmful
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    She could not muster her usual venom.  (source)
    venom = intense feelings of hatred or anger
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