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Recent Examples of python But the Fenty Beauty mogul has proven herself animal print agnostic, with a particular penchant for snake—those Amina Muaddi python print boots are the hardest working shoe in her wardrobe. Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 21 Jan. 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 Somehow Bonet’s Burmese python got into one of the walls in the house. R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 9 Jan. 2026 Even one of the greatest ever to play this game, Joe Root, could not work out how to break free of the 36-year-old’s shackles here, failing to score a single run off him for 23 balls in a row before finally yielding to the python-like grip when missing one that homed in on his pads. Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for python
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Noun
  • In 2017 Dikansh Parmar of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change in Germany, rescued an Indian cobra (Naja naja) coiled around a train’s window bars that was hissing and, understandably, frightening passengers.
    Richard Kemeny, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
  • In videos shared on social media, handlers could be seen removing two snakes from Nwangene's home and a bystander was heard identifying one as a cobra.
    Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 3 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • But things get real when an actual giant anaconda appears, turning their comically chaotic movie set into a deadly situation.
    Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • British explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett, who wandered the Amazon for 22 years at the beginning of the 20th century before vanishing without a trace, wrote that the breath of the anaconda stupefied its prey.
    Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Bessette Kennedy and her husband also wore matching gold wedding bands cast from a rattlesnake’s rib.
    Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Founded in 1958 by local farmers and ranchers, the Round-Up began as an attempt to reduce rattlesnake populations that threatened livestock in West Texas.
    Staff Photographer, Austin American Statesman, 10 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Pairing her geometric gown with a larger-than-life feather boa, Carey also accessorized with over 300 carats of Levuma diamonds.
    Hannah Malach, InStyle, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The show featured other Minter heroes, including Jane Fonda giving the finger and two large-scale odalisques: Padma Lakshmi, in a bra and a boa, eating oranges, and Lizzo, in a corset, holding an iPhone.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • For example, an adult black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), one of the planet’s deadliest elapids, regularly grows upwards of 10 feet long.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Powell County paramedic Eddie Barnes and one of his team members were called to the Kentucky Reptile Zoo in May after the zoo’s co-director, James Harrison, was bitten by a poisonous mamba snake, local news outlet LEX 18 reported.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Hoka Kaha 2 Frost Moc GTX Hoka also makes the Kaha 2 Frost Mac, a padded, puffy moccasin version of the boot, with a slipper-style laceless upper made of the same durable ripstop polyester.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Those looking for something playful should opt for a floppy moccasin style like the sock boots from the Louis Vuitton runway.
    Shelby Ying Hyde, Refinery29, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Rather than allowing herself to be captured by the Romans, legend has it that Cleopatra let a poisonous asp bite her in Alexandria, according to the documentary.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Among the caterpillars Walker has studied are puss, or asp, caterpillars, whose stings can be excruciating.
    Ivan Amato, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Only a few thousand San Francisco garter snakes are estimated to remain in the wild.
    Pepper St. Clair, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In the last century, the giant garter snake’s population has declined by more than 90%, the governor’s announcement declared.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 13 Oct. 2025

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