Examples of nonvenomous in a Sentence
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More straightforward was a request to remove a nonvenomous carpet python, its body intricately patterned with whorls and swirls, coiled in the depths of a shed.
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Natasha Frost David Maurice Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
According to the Miami Herald, the scaly intruder is a 2-foot-long corn snake, a nonvenomous reptile native to Florida.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
Australia, for instance, has more venomous snakes than nonvenomous ones.
—Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
Conservancy of Southwest Florida Burmese pythons are nonvenomous constrictors that have long been an invasive species in Florida, primarily living in and around the Everglades in South Florida.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 July 2023
Glass lizards are a nonvenomous species and are completely harmless to humans, detailed the Encyclopedia of Alabama.
—Sarah Claire McDonald The Island Packet (hilton Head Island, S.c.) (tns), al, 19 Sep. 2023
The nonvenomous 17-foot constrictor then tried to wrap herself around the sweating Kirkland, who slipped through coil after coil.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
Rat snakes are nonvenomous and common across much of Texas.
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
Also, many nonvenomous snakes—along with copperheads and cottonmouths—will shake their tails when frightened.
—Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 25 Apr. 2023
Natasha Frost David Maurice Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024
According to the Miami Herald, the scaly intruder is a 2-foot-long corn snake, a nonvenomous reptile native to Florida.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
Australia, for instance, has more venomous snakes than nonvenomous ones.
—Cassandra Willyard, Scientific American, 19 Sep. 2023
Conservancy of Southwest Florida Burmese pythons are nonvenomous constrictors that have long been an invasive species in Florida, primarily living in and around the Everglades in South Florida.
—Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 July 2023
Glass lizards are a nonvenomous species and are completely harmless to humans, detailed the Encyclopedia of Alabama.
—Sarah Claire McDonald The Island Packet (hilton Head Island, S.c.) (tns), al, 19 Sep. 2023
The nonvenomous 17-foot constrictor then tried to wrap herself around the sweating Kirkland, who slipped through coil after coil.
—Max G. Levy, WIRED, 18 Aug. 2023
Rat snakes are nonvenomous and common across much of Texas.
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
Also, many nonvenomous snakes—along with copperheads and cottonmouths—will shake their tails when frightened.
—Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 25 Apr. 2023
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nonvenomous
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non·ven·om·ous
-ˈven-ə-məs 
: not venomous
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