snake pit

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Recent Examples of snake pit By imagining a snake pit of twisting, interlocking, hollow metal tubes. Erica Huang, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024 At its worst, the comment section could be a bit of an echo chamber nestled inside a snake pit. Erin Gloria Ryan, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023 Her first snake pit venture came when the Sweetwater Jaycees visited Austin in February to promote their annual West Texas rattlesnake roundup. Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 30 June 2023 Ragnar welcomes death in a snake pit. BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2021 See All Example Sentences for snake pit
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snake pit
Noun
  • Yes, these Eagles have been to hell.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The press helped to turn public opinion against the war, not because the press was antiwar or even had a politics but because war is hell, and hell is photogenic.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Jilly will undoubtedly be best remembered for her chart-topping series The Rutshire Chronicles and its havoc-making and handsome show-jumping hero Rupert Campbell-Black.
    Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In total, Elanga provided five first-half crosses and, while only Gordon’s counted as ‘completed’, that does a disservice to the havoc the Sweden international caused.
    Chris Waugh, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But most important, its vacuum design is quiet, easy to use, and eliminates mess.
    Christine Persaud, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • La Liz was an opulent mess her whole life.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.
    Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Roll with the chaos as the moon and Uranus clash.
    USA TODAY, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • In other words, Steve is a lot to play, and the Oscar-winner throws himself into every forlorn expression, every kindly mentoring session, every manic bit of rushing to and fro as chaos reigns around him, every stumbling step toward self-medicating into oblivion.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • First, your confusion is kind of the point ‒ today's slang is part of an ever-changing lexicon that separates the young from the young-at-heart.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The Department of Homeland Security has detained hundreds of TPS holders from Venezuela nationwide, creating confusion about how the protections are being applied.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Ingesting UPFs has been associated with more than 30 health conditions, including Type-2 diabetes, heart diseases, mental health disorders and obesity.
    Stephen J. Beard, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Some studies do suggest links between acetaminophen use in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental disorders such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism.
    Tami S. Rowen, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Snake pit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snake%20pit. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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