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Example sentences for "snaky"

Lexicographically close words:
snakeroot; snakes; snakeskin; snakey; snaking; snap; snapdragon; snapdragons; snapped; snapper
  1. How characterless they looked: Shuley without his deep unbuttoned collar, Ennis without his scarlet belt with the snaky clasp, and Connolly without his Norfolk coat with the flapless side-pockets!

  2. His soul sickened at the thought of a torpid snaky life feeding itself out of the tender marrow of his life and fattening upon the slime of lust.

  3. The philology and etymology of the name Jacob has suggestions of the serpent; and from his history he must have been a snaky fellow from the first to the last.

  4. The witness who speaks falsely shall be fast bound under water in the snaky cords of Varuna, and be wholly deprived of power to escape torment during a hundred transmigrations.

  5. By what fierce courage, and what skilful arts,” “The snaky locks in thy possession came.

  6. Perhaps some snaky waitress has told on us, or he had seen us, even from his table.

  7. Emerson smiled that evening as he saw it trailing its snaky length over the back of a chair and stuffed it in the side pocket of his coat, thinking he would give it to Ellhorn the next time his friend should come to the jail.

  8. From the side pocket of his coat he drew a shiny, snaky black thing, and a satisfied "ah!

  9. The big vine swung its loose, snaky folds over the ruin.

  10. The huge tree toppled, split at its middle fork--went crashing down, ripping loose the snaky folds of vine, shattering the trees next it.

  11. Those sleek, snaky trails on the water mean rain, they tell me," answered Chesney.

  12. And, if it wasn't for something snaky and creepy-crawly looking in his eyes, I had rather have his help than that of most women's.

  13. See Milton's Hymn on the Nativity, "Not =Typhon= huge ending in snaky twine.

  14. He tore up bunches of the broad leaves and snaky stalks, and, washing them carefully with his trunk, he crushed the juicy stems, stuffing the tangled mass into his mouth as a savage would eat maccaroni.

  15. The leafy curtain burst into tatters; the jungle ropes and snaky stems, tearing the branches from the treetops, were in a few moments heaped in a tangled and confused ruin.

  16. He had a way of writhing when he wanted to express enthusiasm, which was very ugly; and which diverted my attention from the compliment he had paid my relation, to the snaky twistings of his throat and body.

  17. He looked back at the snaky leer in those half-opened green eyes, and a rage went boiling into his brain.

  18. His name's Rhues, an' he's a nasty, snaky cuss.

  19. They brandished whips, wreathed with serpents, in their fleshless hands, and their aspect was rendered still more terrible by the frightful masks which appeared beneath their snaky tresses.

  20. As hideous women with terrible countenances; they had twining serpents instead of hair, and carried snaky whips and lighted torches in their hands.

  21. When she sprang out of the lather, those devilish, snarling, snaky waves sprang after her, slapping at her flanks, tearing and biting at her like a pack of wolves.

  22. The wind had ceased somewhat on the morning of the third day, but the snaky rollers were still racing after the flying yacht.

  23. All those snaky creepers with their coloured flowers seem to be hiding something.

  24. Of course, the children were quite ready to believe the old explanation of these long, snaky wrigglers, but with a Century Encyclopædia within reach, I could not resist getting at the truth of the matter.

  25. A minute or two later his evil head and long, snaky neck appeared from a hole in a corner, and a charge of bird-shot, properly distributed, put an end to his depredations.

  26. There was so much quiet firmness in the fisherman's words that Arthur felt himself constrained to go forward and look at the great snaky fish as it heaved and curved its springy body in the bottom of the boat.

  27. Horror, with the snaky locks, Shocked the surge to stiffened heaps, Hoary as the glacier's head Faced to the moon.

  28. It is common with you to join hands with the men you meet; but with the slave-dealer you avoid the ceremony-- instinctively shrinking from the snaky contact.

  29. It seems horrid now, and there he sits with that long, snaky pipe and his legs twisted in a knot, smoking away as comfortably as the old Guy Fox in the tablecloth that I shaved.

  30. They slid along the shore like shadows, moving so swiftly and in such silence that the watchful mud turtles barely turned their snaky heads as they passed.

  31. The door opened, and the swarthy Reginald, diabolically handsome, with his black snaky curls, entered the room.

  32. The softness, the tenderness of the snaky coil, so sensitive that the finest thread in God's world can scarce escape it, changed suddenly to iron.

  33. She was of his tribe--the snaky tribe, and so, of course, he knows about it all.

  34. He remembered the cranberry picking at this season, and later when the meadow had been flooded, the skating over the bushes that were frozen in the ice, and the snaky forms of the cranberry plants visible at the bottom.

  35. Bostil saw the leap of Slone's lasso--the curling, snaky dart of the noose which flew up to snap around Sears.

  36. A thin streak of yellow smoke rose--a little snaky flame--a slight crackling hiss!


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "snaky" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aberrant; acute; amphibian; arch; artful; astute; batrachian; canny; circuitous; clever; crafty; crawling; creeping; crooked; cunning; cute; deceitful; deep; designing; desultory; deviating; devious; digressive; diplomatic; discursive; errant; erratic; excursive; feline; flexuous; foxy; guileful; indirect; ingenious; insidious; inventive; involuted; knowing; labyrinthine; mazy; meandering; pawky; planetary; politic; rambling; ready; reptile; reptilian; resourceful; roundabout; roving; scheming; serpentine; sharp; shifting; shifty; shrewd; sigmoid; sinuous; slick; slippery; slithering; sly; smooth; snaky; sneaky; sophistical; stealthy; strategic; stray; subtile; subtle; supple; swerving; tactical; torsional; tortuous; tricky; turning; twisting; twisty; undirected; vagrant; veering; vulpine; wandering; wary; whorled; wily; winding; zigzag