Thesaurus results for BOA

boa

noun

as in constrictor

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Recent Examples of boa Rae’s setup was meticulous, maximalist, and totally unified—the boa made of hundred-dollar bills, the backup dancers who looked vaguely like mimes, the scaffolding that suggested Moulin Rouge! —

Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 13 Apr. 2026 The post was of the singer-songwriter sipping champagne while wearing a feather-boa dress. —

Bryan West, USA Today, 31 Mar. 2026 Lee, who has been sober for 30 years, recounts wearing a feather boa and dancing on top of the bar with an inflatable alien hanging from the ceiling. —

Leanne Battelle, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026 At the New York premiere of her upcoming film, , Sweeney arrived alongside co-star Amanda Seyfried wearing a low-cut, glitzy silver Miu Miu floor-length gown, finished with a dramatic feather boa. —

Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for boa

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If this animal sounds like a Burmese python, that’s because the serpent-like fish — known as Asian swamp eels — have a lot in common with the big, invasive constrictors.

— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 12 Mar. 2026
The snake was identified as a carpet python, a non-venomous constrictor commonly found in Australia’s coastal regions.

— Jasmine Baehr, FOXNews.com, 18 Jan. 2026