bullsnake
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bullsnake
Example Sentences
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Fortune said he’d seen plenty of cottonmouth snakes and rattlesnakes in Texas, and he’d once come across a 5-foot bullsnake.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2023
Willie Salas casually pocketed a three-foot bullsnake which was sunning itself on the running board of a parked car, announced to popeyed spectators: "I've got mice in my cellar."
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a big, long bullsnake right there on the henhouse floor.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
He named this yere bullsnake Clarence, and got it so plumb gentle it followed him everywhere.
From Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White
When Crawfish gets ready to bile the coffee, he tumbles the biggest bullsnake I'd seen yet outen the coffee-pot onto the grass.
From Wolfville by Alfred Henry Lewis
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