Example Sentences

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Cottonmouths are solitary; they do not form nests or colonies.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2014

Cottonmouths, like North America’s copperheads and rattlesnakes, are pit vipers.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2014

Cottonmouths live in marshes, swamps, and creeks in the Southeastern states, regions where many people fish and hunt.

From Slate • Sep. 8, 2014

The Cottonmouths are run by a Columbus native, Wanda Amos, who co-owns the team with her husband.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2014

“He might come across wolves, bobcats. Cottonmouths and diamondbacks. Didn’t Will have to kill a rattlesnake?”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes