Example Sentences

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Carradine played the role with restrained, viper-like charm.

From The Guardian • Nov. 12, 2016

Ghana look like they are more comfortable with this sort of match and it could play into their viper-like hands.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2010

Who saucily teach monarchs to obey, And the wide world in narrow cloisters sway; Set up by kings as humble aids of power, You that which bred you, viper-like, devour, You enemies of crowns— Chr.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir

From the depths of the narrowest lanes, and the blackest dens, there issued pale faces, men with viper-like profiles and grinding their teeth.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave

One of these viper-like fortunes had fallen to Barkilphedro.

From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor