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Meanings of snakelike in English
Synonyms
Examples for "serpentine"
Examples for "serpentine"
1
After a week of climbing, Ike and Ali reached the serpentine sea.
2
Over the sky above the canyon streaked a serpentine chain of lightnings.
3
He leaned closer, the motion feline and serpentine at the same time.
4
These are driven by a long serpentine belt attached to the engine.
5
The serpentine was turning over and over in midspace, supported by nothing.
1
Followed that cave down a long snaky passage, a hunerd feet in.
2
But Medusa's snaky hair is also the writhing vegetable growth of nature.
3
And Little Pine glanced with snaky eyes toward the town of Battleford.
4
Supple, snaky vines writhe amid the foliage, and bind the undergrowth together.
5
Of course it was probable that she had listened to this snaky.
Usage of snakelike in English
1
Then he turned his head, and his right hand moved snakelike downward.
2
A .44 magnum, gleaming snakelike silver, slick to the touch, cold, impersonal.
3
It hung from high under the wing, a long nasty snakelike body.
4
Snape merely stood and waited, looking unflinchingly at the awful, snakelike face.
5
It had a long, scaly, snakelike body several times longer than the tentacles.
6
There was something snakelike in that slow approach, so silent and so gradual.
7
With snakelike movements it wriggles away through the loose snow with surprising speed.
8
There was something venomous and snakelike in the boy's black eyes.
9
Swaying unsteadily, the mulatto looked around him through eyes closed to snakelike slits.
10
A chain was wrapped snakelike around the latch that connected the double doors.
11
It writhed around her thin arm, snakelike, chiming as it locked.
12
The monster was catlike, snakelike, fanged, black-mawed, a rock, mere mist.
13
It raised its snakelike neck and peered up into the trees.
14
Gedney Raffer, weazened, snakelike, sly, and treacherous, had doubtless wronged Uncle Henry deeply.
15
Schmaltz's finger traced the snakelike path of the Miami River, which bisects Dayton.
16
Her arm looked white and snakelike stretched into the warm emptiness beside her.
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Snakelike across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common