Example Sentences

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I said, with my imagination full of boa-constrictors big enough to entwine and crush us up.

From Mass' George A Boy's Adventures in the Old Savannah by Smith, W.T.

Down here they call them anacondas, and in other parts of the world they're boa-constrictors.

From The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics by Langworthy, John Luther

Few men are all that—and few boa-constrictors either, as far as that goes.

From Mr. Munchausen  Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder by Bangs, John Kendrick

We had disturbed one of the largest boa-constrictors I had ever seen, and it was moving off, strange to say, instead of boldly attacking us, but hissing and blowing with rage as it did so.

From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Stables, Gordon

There are large boa-constrictors in the forest suspended by their tails, waiting to gobble up travellers.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)