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Example sentences for "snakelike"

Lexicographically close words:
snail; snails; snake; snakebite; snaked; snakeroot; snakes; snakeskin; snakey; snaking
  1. Two shots and then--" He was conscious of that great, snakelike head darting viciously in his direction.

  2. The snakelike slithering and shuffling which followed would mean that the enemy was inside the NX-1.

  3. Savage, surly allosauri were led from their stables, one by one, long necks writhing snakelike backwards and forwards.

  4. The snakelike tentacle gripped him about the waist, and held him dangling like a puppet twenty feet in the water while the two deadly eyes stared steadily at him.

  5. The shadows above him took on weird shapes; grinning faces with tangled gray locks; long snakelike bodies, and tails of red and yellow light twined and writhed sinuously about the beautiful face of a girl.

  6. Only darkness and the snakelike agility of the Scorpion spy prevented his capture then and there.

  7. For a long moment Don's gray eyes returned the Oriental's snakelike gaze.

  8. Suddenly the snakelike hand dips into my coat pocket.

  9. The sentinels on the wall, their rifles resting loosely on crooked arm, face the striped line winding snakelike through the open space.

  10. The snakelike eyes of the smaller man glittered at the mention of gold.

  11. A man whose pinched, wizened body was a fitting cloister for the warped soul that flashed malignantly from the beady, snakelike eyes.

  12. Trichosanthes anguina) having the fruit shorter and less snakelike than that of the serpent cucumber.

  13. I saw some red lips, the green light of those snakelike eyes, and the beckoning wave of a jewelled arm.

  14. They even climbed with a snakelike motion up the posts which supported the roof.

  15. His face had a classic beauty which, on second glance, was marred by an almost snakelike aspect of the small black eyes and a sinister smile which seemed to hover eternally around the thin lips.

  16. In the same moment his snakelike black eyes fixed themselves on Brice whom he seemed to notice for the first time.

  17. Now, under the coldly unwavering smile of Hade's snakelike eyes, he stammered, and his booming voice trailed away to a mumble.

  18. Rodney Hade sat up, with galvanic suddenness, rubbing his misused throat and darting a swift snakelike glance about him.

  19. John Ermine rode slowly over a hill, and looking backward, saw the long, snakelike columns of horse and foot and wagons come crawling.

  20. There was something snakelike about the flat head, and the thin triangular face; an effect which certainly belied the little lady, for there was nothing malicious or sinister in her personality.

  21. From the wet ground itself there seemed to rise a livid storm-light, reflecting the last gleams of day, and showing the dreary road winding ahead, dim and snakelike through intermittent trees.

  22. These snakelike creatures--which measured as much as forty-five feet in length--abounded in the Cretaceous seas.

  23. Descended from small amphibious animals, they later included great marine reptiles, characterized in the typical genus by long neck, snakelike head, and immense paddles.

  24. A gulp, a grin, a nod, he was down from the wagon in a flash and using his leanness to wriggle snakelike through the crowd.

  25. For had he not seen the dead thing become alive and snakelike in the skilled hand of Manuel Cordova?

  26. We started at once,--for the captain let me go; we rowed some sixty miles along the coast to the mouth of the Rejang; then for four days we pulled up its snakelike course.

  27. Here, as we were pushing through the tall grass, we saw several Indians not far off; one of them waited until we came up, and stood for some moments in perfect silence before us, looking at us askance with his little snakelike eyes.

  28. His sharp prominent features, and his little keen snakelike eyes, looked out from beneath the shadowy hood of the capote, which was drawn over his head exactly like the cowl of a Capuchin friar.

  29. As the blue-roan dodged to avoid the whirling, snakelike rope that suddenly shot out from the hand of a man he had not noticed, he felt it draw up on his hind legs.

  30. Going at full speed as they were, there was no chance to throw off those snakelike coils, and the two riders were jerked backward over their horses' hips and landed heavily upon the hard plank flooring of the bridge.

  31. Great granite rocks rise up like giants to dispute our passage, but by numerous twistings the path skirts their base, or wriggles snakelike over the top.

  32. Barnacles cover the top of every rock that the tide reaches, and the long, blackish, snakelike seaweed is strewn along the beach.

  33. Then he turned his head, and his right hand moved snakelike downward.

  34. At the mention of Midway, the half-breed's expression had changed to one of snakelike cunning.

  35. We find in its middle, winding snakelike from side to side, the narrow gorge of the river.

  36. Any elevated viewpoint will disclose several or many of these mighty streams flowing in snakelike curves down the mountainside, the greater streams swollen here and there by tributaries as rivers are swollen by entering creeks.

  37. About the rocks, the long snakelike stems and feelers were extended, and the luring decoys waved and glowed again at the ends of the stalks.

  38. Trichosanthes anguina) having the fruit shorter and less snakelike than that of the serpent cucumber.

  39. Defn: An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body.

  40. Some legless, degenerate forms were snakelike in shape.

  41. A black, snakelike loop fell over Bill Breakstone's head, settled down on his shoulders, and was suddenly drawn taut, as the mustang settled back on his haunches.

  42. A cold wind drifted about the three, Jarring the spines with a hungry sound, The spines that grew on the snakelike tree And guarded its roots beneath the ground.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snakelike" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.