How to Use snake in a Sentence

snake

1 of 2 noun

• I thought she was my friend, but she turned out to be a snake in the grass.
• Were there lots of snakes around?
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
• Let’s shed that old snake skin.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 Jan. 2026
• Let’s shed that old snake skin.
  — Tracy Wright, FOXNews.com, 1 Jan. 2026
• The snake had not made a sound.
  — Dr. C. E. Kuschel, Outdoor Life, 9 Apr. 2026
• The snakes must have just crossed!
  — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
• Maybe cut the head off the snake.
  — Terry Terrones, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
• Trump is not the head of the snake.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
• There is, alas, a snake in their Eden.
  — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
• Like a snake eating its own tail.
  — Weike Wang, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• Someone put a snake around my neck.
  — Seija Rankin, HollywoodReporter, 6 Nov. 2025
• At some point, the head will need to be cut off of the snake.
  — Douglas J. Feith, National Review, 24 Oct. 2023
• Both are as crooked as snakes in a hurry.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
• There are snakes and hyenas and wild dogs.
  — Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
• In one clearing a snake writhed in gray mud.
  — Nathaniel Rich, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• The snake was still laying on his chest.
  — Sabrina Reed, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
• Back away from the snake slowly.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
• Back away from the snake slowly.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026
• Back away from the snake slowly.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2026
• There's over a hundred snakes in the house.
  — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 21 Feb. 2026
• This is true for all venomous snake species.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025
• The snake was captured and placed in a burlap bag.
  — Kit Bernardi, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
• Do not kill the snake and risk being bit again.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 30 Mar. 2026
• Sometimes, though, the snakes eat all of the birds.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
• Mark the bite area with a pen and write down the time of the snake strike.
  — Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2025
• Nana bought shark and snake hand puppets as gifts for them.
  — Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 17 May 2026
• But that’s the ouroboros — the snake eating its own tail.
  — Eric Markowitz, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
• Do not bring the snake with you to the ER.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 30 Mar. 2026
• Streets to nowhere snake through the dirt, ready for future homes.
  — Jonathan J. Cooper, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
• Many of the snakes that travel across the road are quite small.
  — Owen Clarke, Outside, 19 Sep. 2025

snake

2 of 2 verb

• The road snakes through the mountains.
• He snaked his way through the crowd.
• Cables snaked across the floor.
• Technicians snaked cables through the set.
• As the show began, the line to get in still snaked around the block.
  — Amy Zimmerman, Vulture, 18 June 2023
• Chances to snake those prize buyers away don’t come along every day.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 19 Nov. 2021
• Rivers snake their way through what appears to be a sea of endless green.
  — Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2022
• Tree roots and ivy creepers have also snaked through the stonework.
  — Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
• Side streams snake their way from the river, and there’s a nearby dam.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 17 May 2021
• Hundreds of them, snaking through the building.
  — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
• Another car snakes down the road.
  — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• Now, long lines snake outside gas stations on the eve of price hikes each month.
  — Isabel Debre, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 July 2022
• Oil follows snaking journeys that can take weeks to go from drill sites to gas pumps.
  — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
• In its search for ample sunlight, the species tightly snakes up trees.
  — Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 22 Oct. 2025
• At times, lines started to snake through the store as people waited for a turn.
  — Saam Niami, New York Times, 4 July 2023
• Food trucks reopened after the storm and long lines snaked around the vendor area.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026
• As of this writing , the case continues to snake its way through the courts.
  — Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2025
• Aside from the snaking windows, the most striking feature in the lounge is the bar.
  — Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2023
• The hike takes you into a scene from an old fairy tale, as big old pine trees snake up the mountain.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 3 July 2021
• If there was a window open, the cord would snake into the house and get hooked on a doorknob.
  — Star Tribune, 28 May 2021
• During peak meal hours, food lines snaked endlessly.
  — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• Judging from the line snaking down Robertson Blvd.
  — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 26 Apr. 2026
• Vines that snake up by wrapping their stems around their support — known as twiners — can be a wild card.
  — Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2023
• The system is easy to set up and doesn’t need cables snaking everywhere.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• The river snaked on into the next county, but the trail stopped near the highway.
  — Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
• The mood inside the terminal was calm as the snaking line crawled forward.
  — Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
• By noontime, the line snaked away from the entrance for several blocks.
  — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 Jan. 2026
• That sparked protests as the bill snaked slowly through the legislature.
  — The Tennessean, 13 Aug. 2025
• The lockdown threatens to snarl other supply chains that snake through the coastal city, too.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2022
• Irrigation tubes snaked across the craters of empty plant holes.
  — Rachel Becker, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2026