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How to pronounce snakes in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms snake river
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Synonyms hydra
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Synonyms snake in the grass
Type of bad person
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Synonyms auger, plumber's snake
Type of hand tool
Has types trap-and-drain auger
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Synonyms ophidian, serpent
Type of diapsid, diapsid reptile
Has types elapid snake, blind snake, colubrid, colubrid snake, constrictor, elapid, sea snake, viper, worm snake
Derivation snaky
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Type of twist, curve, wind


The river snakes through the valley.
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Type of wind, meander, thread, wander, weave


The army snaked through the jungle.
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Type of glide
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Type of physical object, object
Has types closet auger, plumber's snake, auger

Examples of snakes

snakes
Rat snakes get their name because they are primarily predators of small mammals.
From the sciencedaily.com
Now he regularly gets calls from people asking him to remove troublesome snakes.
From the telegraph.co.uk
You should watch for mating snakes, because they probably won't sense you first.
From the sfgate.com
If you're a hiker, runner, surfer or golfer, have you seen any snakes this year?
From the ocregister.com
Also elephants and animals with large orfices are scared of mice and snakes too.
From the newscientist.com
Decaying mixtures frequently smell bad, look bad and attract insects and snakes.
From the newsobserver.com
A half-hour before the snakes appear, a slide show gives background information.
From the chron.com
Snakes are less likely to be found when large dogs have the run of the premises.
From the al.com
Many people wish a magical powder could be sprinkled around to keep snakes away.
From the al.com
More examples
  • Limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
  • Move smoothly and sinuously, like a snake
  • A deceitful or treacherous person
  • Form a snake-like pattern; "The river snakes through the valley"
  • A tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Move along a winding path; "The army snaked through the jungle"
  • Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales. ...
  • Used in the audio recording and sound reinforcement fields, an audio multicore cable (most commonly known as a snake cable or just a snake) is a compact cable, typically about the diameter of a coin, which contains from 4 to 56 individual shielded pair microphone cables all housed by one rugged, ...
  • The Snake is a major river in the greater Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is the largest and longest tributary of the Columbia River, which is the largest North American river that empties into the Pacific Ocean. ...