cobra
Example Sentences
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This drama will not end well: “Watch Your Step” has a coiled energy, a cobra poised to strike.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025
Throw in a pitch spitting like a cobra from a length at one end, Jasprit Bumrah bowling missiles and turn for Ravindra Jadeja, and England were second favourites.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025
A drug commonly prescribed to thin blood can be repurposed as a cheap antidote to cobra venom, a team of scientists based in Australia, Canada, Costa Rica and the UK has discovered.
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2024
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
Together, they checked the fangs of every cobra in attendance, searching for the one that had killed the man.
From "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" by William Kamkwamba
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.