Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: serpents
IPA transcription: [s'ɝpənts]
Pronunciations of serpents
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Usage examples
  • Like serpents struggling in a vulture's grasp
  • In fact, Hercules was but a child, when Juno sent two enormous serpents against him.
  • Nevertheless a doubt occurs to the mind--that is, scorpions and serpents are poisonous.
  • The most ferocious carnivores are found in the mountains, and the most venomous serpents haunt the lowlands.
  • 'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day!
  • And afterwards was forced to strike once more The two entangled serpents with his rod, Ere he could have again his manly plumes.
  • "It was like two serpents twisting around a stick, and was carved so naturally that I, at first, thought the serpents were alive."
  • I secured the entrance, which was low and narrow, with a great stone, to preserve me from the serpents; but not so far as to exclude the light.
  • 'I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.'
  • 'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 'but those serpents!
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