adder

Example Sentences

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It's full of vials labelled "Death Adder", "Taipan", "Tiger Snake" and "Eastern Brown".

From BBC • May 16, 2025

The June 26 editorial cartoon by Michael de Adder showed falling dominoes of adjudicated or potential Supreme Court cases.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022

Egil had the shield that he was wont to have, was girded with the sword which he called Adder, but in his hand he had Dragvandill.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019

The Namaqua Dwarf Adder, seen here on a sand dune in Namaqualand, South Africa, is a vulnerable species highly prized by snake collectors.

From National Geographic • Nov. 11, 2015

Whenever I move—seek to move without Palsy—I curse him who hath brought me low & for he was a Betrayer, an Adder I nursed in my Bosom.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson