Sample Sentences for
serpent
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    The serpent relaxed immediately.  (source)
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    The small rug before the fire unraveled itself into a long, slender serpent with wicked teeth.  (source)
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    It's quite right what it says in the poetry-book about sharper than a serpent it is to have a toothless child — but it means ungrateful when it says toothless.  (source)
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    And soon after that, I turn into the likeness of a great serpent, hungry, fierce, and deadly.  (source)
    serpent = snake
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    There were trolls and serpents and gnomes.†  (source)
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    The forest encroached on both sides, leaving the road ahead only discernible for a few meters as it twisted, serpentlike, around the ancient trees.†  (source)
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    Serpent, I say again!  (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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    The twins were looking into the heavens when a shadow flickered across the face of the moon, a speck that might have been a bird except that the wingspan was too wide, and no bird had that serpentlike neck and tail.†  (source)
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    But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.  (source)
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    I hold the box with its narrow mouth over the water, and immediately, a hundred shiny arched backs roll toward me, a mob of serpents, the tails cutting across the surface furiously, and then the mouths are below me, the fish roiling over each other to swallow the pellets and then, like trained pets, aiming their faces up toward me for more.†  (source)
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    The huge, serpentlike pterosaurs belonged to his darkest nightmares, and when they'd come hopping out of the night, he'd felt his heart hammering so powerfully that the skin on his chest had actually pulsed.†  (source)
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    The street we lived on, Serpent Street, was in the first ghetto.†  (source)
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