Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
serpent or some aspect of one;snakelike .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Irish king turned in place with an almost serpentlike speed that was surprising in one of his bulk.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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The Irish king turned in place with an almost serpentlike speed that was surprising in one of his bulk.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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The Irish king turned in place with an almost serpentlike speed that was surprising in one of his bulk.
Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010
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The tortoise moves very slowly, but cranes its serpentlike head out of its shell when I crouch down to greet it.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Their elogated heads look quite serpentlike and menacing.
BEA/ALA, booksellers, librarians Roger Sutton 2006
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The tortoise moves very slowly, but cranes its serpentlike head out of its shell when I crouch down to greet it.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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The tortoise moves very slowly, but cranes its serpentlike head out of its shell when I crouch down to greet it.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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“In short, a word of good advice in your position is like broth to a dead man,” said Jacques Collin, with a serpentlike gaze at his old pal.
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A small whitish mark blocked the faint scan of a long serpentlike trail: Julia's fallopian tube and ovary.
Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006
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Instantly there sounded a short, fierce shout and the crash of a hard-driven blow, mixed with the hysterical screams of a girl and a medley of serpentlike hissing that made my hair bristle.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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