snake

Example Sentences

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As the unemployment rate surged to 25% and bread lines snaked around cities across the country, anger spread against the bankers and big businesses that were seen as responsible for the 1929 stock crash.

From The Wall Street Journal

Pop-up vaccine clinics have seen queues snaking around buildings.

From BBC

Worried about all those snaking security lines flooding social-media feeds and the nightly news?

From The Wall Street Journal

Breaking the surface of the water was a writhing snake.

From Literature

Following his directions, they’d left the ‘stream at the foot of the stony grey hill’, and were climbing the trail that snaked towards the top.

From Literature