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

A cobra bites Chelsea and she’s whisked away to a hospital.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 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

“A wife,” Mother said, staring at Nelson in the kitchen house exactly as I had seen her stare at the cobra that once turned up in there.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver