cobra
Example Sentences
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Sometimes the pitch is flat as a pancake, other times it spits like a cobra.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025
Carse produced a lifter to Usman Khawaja so venomous it could have been a spitting cobra.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2025
A cobra bites Chelsea and she’s whisked away to a hospital.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2025
When she and Dr. Tessler analyzed the leech’s movement, they identified that it made a curling motion similar to the move a cobra makes before it strikes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
A bull is like a silverback, noble, contained, calm like a cobra is calm.
From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate
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