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Example sentences for "serpentlike"

Lexicographically close words:
serpentine; serpentines; serpentining; serpentinous; serpentis; serpents; serpiginous; serraglio; serrate; serrated
  1. The very long, serpentlike neck and tail, and very small head were grotesque features.

  2. They were something like the ichthyosaurs, but with smaller heads and much longer, more slender, serpentlike bodies.

  3. A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way.

  4. A genus of amphibians, inhabiting the Southern United States, having a serpentlike form, but with four minute limbs and two persistent gill openings; the Congo snake.

  5. They were serpentlike in form and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with large recurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet.

  6. Some of the best accounts seem to describe a marine saurian, like the fossil Mosasauri, which were large serpentlike creatures with paddles.

  7. After a straight-away run of a hundred yards, it coiled serpentlike around the mountain's crest.

  8. Slowly, very slowly, with all the serpentlike cunning of the savage, he advanced till he was almost above the spot where the other stood taking a survey of the jungle.

  9. The silence and the serpentlike motions had a peculiar hypnotic effect upon us, and in a sort of dreamlike trance we watched them wriggle by the narrow aperture to which we pressed our faces.

  10. As we glanced at each other the significance of the serpentlike dance, the marks upon the bodies of the dancers and on the knife and stone table, was plainly evident.


  11. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "serpentlike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    amphibian; batrachian; crawling; creeping; reptile; reptilian; serpentine; slithering; snaky