Example Sentences

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While the little angel perched on your right shoulder chirps, “The perfect present,” that impish red devil on your left will snakily hiss, “Keep it yourself. You know you want to.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021

She moves from snakily grooving songs of uplift to romantic entreaties to reggae-tinged protest anthems.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2018

She fastened her eyes on Eleanor, snakily, sinister, never shifting her glance.

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Here it ran snakily and, carved by broad-tired wheels and beaten out by slowly plodding hoofs in a soil more than half sand, glimmered white as rock-salt where the drifting leaves had left it naked.

From The Bronze Bell by Vance, Louis Joseph

Before him, its empty arms stretched toward him, its straps and wires twisting snakily in front of him, was The Chair!

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Marshall, Edison