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Meanings of snaky in English

Resembling a serpent in form.

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Examples for "serpentine"
Examples for "serpentine"
1
After a week of climbing, Ike and Ali reached the serpentine sea.
The Descent
2
Over the sky above the canyon streaked a serpentine chain of lightnings.
The Metal Monster
3
He leaned closer, the motion feline and serpentine at the same time.
Changes
4
These are driven by a long serpentine belt attached to the engine.
Wired
5
The serpentine was turning over and over in midspace, supported by nothing.
A Case of Conscience
1
Then he turned his head, and his right hand moved snakelike downward.
Kid Wolf of Texas / A Western Story
2
A .44 magnum, gleaming snakelike silver, slick to the touch, cold, impersonal.
Fears Unnamed
3
It hung from high under the wing, a long nasty snakelike body.
Rain Wild Chronicles 02 - Dragon Haven
4
Snape merely stood and waited, looking unflinchingly at the awful, snakelike face.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
5
It had a long, scaly, snakelike body several times longer than the tentacles.
Coalition's End
Usage of snaky in English
1
Followed that cave down a long snaky passage, a hunerd feet in.
The Secret History of Twin Peaks
2
But Medusa's snaky hair is also the writhing vegetable growth of nature.
Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
3
And Little Pine glanced with snaky eyes toward the town of Battleford.
The Story of Louis Riel: The Rebel Chief
4
Supple, snaky vines writhe amid the foliage, and bind the undergrowth together.
The Long White Cloud: "Ao Tea Roa"
5
Of course it was probable that she had listened to this snaky.
Active Service
6
He leaned back his long snaky neck and prepared to sling fire.
The saint of dragons
7
Indeed, the very memory of her snaky eyes gave me new horror.
Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune
8
He had snatched her as by a miracle from that snaky river.
Beyond
9
The Grabb's LEDs were mounted on snaky stalks that could be aimed.
Seveneves
10
Have you brought me the head of Medusa with the snaky locks?
Types of Children's Literature / A Collection of the World's Bes...
11
There's a sort of snaky, coiling movement runs up her whole body.
The Way of an Eagle
12
The tense collars fly, and the arrowy rush of the snaky dogs follows.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions; Or, Joints In Ou...
13
Holding it by the snaky locks he stood before the company.
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles
14
The low stone wall was topped by a snaky fence of split rails.
Through stained glass / A Novel
15
The robutler extruded a long, snaky arm with a flame, and lit it.
A Place so Foreign
16
Then it was a writhing, snaky thing with too many fangs.
Sister Mine
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