- a variation of bullsnake.
bull snake
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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By our last day in the park, we’d seen many of the usual suspects, plus a bull snake, a mama mule deer with twins, goldfinches and a turkey.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2015
Among her first specimens, the Chicago-born folk dancer imported from the U.S. an innocuous reptile quartet consisting of an emerald-green tree boa, a king snake, an African ball python and a bull snake.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rattlesnake, copperhead snake, moccasin snake, bull snake, and the various snakes usually found in the Atlantic states are here.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
As for the writer, she sat on a neighboring housetop, well out of the way of rattlers, red racers, rabbit snakes, and even the harmless but fearsome-looking bull snake from 3 to 5 feet long.
From The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Lockett, Hattie Greene
All three jumped and screamed: their nerve had been sadly weakened by the bull snake.
From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Ritchie, Lily Munsell
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