I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
garter snake
grass snake
poisonous snake
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She was bitten on the ankle by a poisonous snake .
snake charmer
snake eyes
snake oil
snake/ant etc bite
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
poisonous
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Many of the animals are hostile to humans: for example, poisonous snakes and fierce mountain cats.
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The air is filled with a dingo's howl, the footpaths alive with the poisonous snakes on their slithering nocturnal hunt.
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Ruby Wax found some real wackos in West Virginia-loons who use poisonous snakes in religious ceremonies.
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The poisonous snakes invite a certain deference, and the rattlesnake is even canned occasionally for human consumption.
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In popular mythology poisonous snakes are always ready and waiting for the chance to strike out and kill their attackers.
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While on a mission, Paul was bitten by a poisonous snake .
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By the way, I don't keep any poisonous snakes .
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The King Cobra, or Hamadryad, is the largest of all poisonous snakes .
venomous
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Ways strewn with thorns and brambles and alive with venomous snakes !
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The many crevices once hid hundreds of the venomous snake indigenous to the Central Maryland region.
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Some animals, such as venomous snakes and spiders, inject venoms in order to immobilise and kill their prey.
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Much maligned, the adder is our only venomous snake , feeding on other reptiles and small mammals.
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The brightly marked sea snakes are among the most venomous snakes to be found anywhere in the world.
■ NOUN
bite
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Human deaths from snake bites are caused mainly by accident.
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In his magazine, he published formulas for animal manures and prescriptions for the cure of snake bites and malaria.
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I sent him back to the Patel farm with his snake bite and his elaborate complaints.
■ VERB
keep
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Other men in the penitentiary kept garden snakes , rats and pigeons for pets...
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I was fully awake, but kept seeing the snake slide over the log.
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He had to keep his arms free as he needed them to keep the snake from suffocating him.
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The advent of generalized floating in early 1973 meant that there was no longer any requirement to keep the snake in the tunnel.
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By the way, I don't keep any poisonous snakes .
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Suzy even seemed intrigued when he told her he kept a snake as a pet rather than disgusted.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
snake oil salesman/peddler
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For all his odd and scary views, Buchanan has played the fear card like a snake oil salesman hawking eternal life.
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Perhaps, when the shouting from snake oil salesmen subsides, our leaders will find a way to forge a bipartisan solution.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A geek is a carnival performer who bites the heads off live chickens and snakes.
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A solid snake of people still wound back along the north shore of the loch.
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But at darkest midnight when all was silent in the house two great snakes came crawling into the nursery.
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In a corner, hoses lay coiled like a family of dormant snakes.
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Now he found himself playing Kaa, the deaf snake known for the power of his hug.
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The snake was still inside the leg, and I couldn't even see it.
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They may be wise as an owl, slippery as an eel or even a snake in the grass.
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When I was born, the nurses said I was cold as a snake .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
down
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Then, for the last twenty minutes, the road snakes down the mountainside.
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The stem of the poppy snakes down and up again, in defiance of gravity, the head faces the viewer.
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Her hand snaked down his pyjamas to feel his hardness ... Then it was morning.
in
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It snakes in and out of ports, along our busiest highways and through our most crowded cities.
out
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His bony wrist snaked out , towards the trailing end of the bull's rope.
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The cool spring nights force snakes out to warm themselves in the morning sun, making the spring ideal for hunting.
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A line of folks hoping for returns snaked out the door to the pavement on Howard Street.
up
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His left arm went round behind her neck, his right snaked up inside the clinging fabric of her dress.
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The weight of the ensemble was counterbalanced by the tug of transmission cables snaking up into the ceiling.
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The police car held the wet roads, even the treacherous lanes that snaked up into the hills.
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The smelt mills had long flues that in some cases snaked up the hillside and across the fell.
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Suddenly the coil ran out and I watched the tail end go snaking up the hill.
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Smoke snaked up from a campfire amidst crudely plastered and thatched huts.
■ NOUN
way
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The line at the bank snaked its way out on to the street.
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I can see it snaking this way and that through Laverne's flapping fringe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Across its upper half, two lines Of human figures snake toward an abstract river.
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He could not believe that her hand snaked across the seat toward his.
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He led the way, his slim hips in the tight fitting pants snaking gracefully between the tables.
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I stared at the brown rivulets snaking down the wall where my window should have been.
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It snakes in and out of ports, along our busiest highways and through our most crowded cities.
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Ships steamed, highways snaked, houses clustered, all, from this height, orderly, and in their smallness touching.
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Usually the lines pictured on the evening news were just the ones that snaked outside store entrances.