snail

Example Sentences

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Last year also happened to be the year I became a full-on snail mail obsessive.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2026

No matter how much I’ve poked fun at my grandfather for driving like a snail my entire life, he continues to drive slowly on streets and freeways.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Conservationists and citizen scientists have joined forces for a project to save London's "charming little" ice-age hairy snail.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2025

There will be a paper trail, either email or snail mail.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

And now one, finding an empty snail shell he likes better than his own, creeps out, exposing his soft body to the enemy for a moment and then pops into the new shell.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck