Example Sentences

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Her most specialized talent lies in the use of a magic lasso, which combines the snakiness of Indiana Jones’s whip with the blaze of golden lightning and the practicality of a polygraph.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 5, 2017

Many features of Tetrapodophis point to its snakiness.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 23, 2015

She looked up from the child; there was a snakiness in the angle of her head and neck.

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

Nature had shaped him more for stability than for snakiness, but he did his best.

From Uneasy Money by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

They hastened to adopt a certain snakiness of attack instead of the frontal method which had left them so exposed.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)