Words similar to serpent
Example sentences for: serpent
How can you use “serpent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
This handsome, outsize TV antenna makes up for its unimaginative name (from its builder, the Canadian National railway and telecommunications company) with all the fanciful interpretations of its shape: jousting lance, hypodermic needle, serpent frozen rigid while swallowing a football.
There are also words representative of other areas of Aboriginal life, such as boylya cleverman or wise elder, gnamma waterhole, kylie boomerang, miamia dwelling, monaych , originally the name of a cockatoo and by transference a police officer, nyoongar Aboriginal person, wagyl , the mythical rainbow serpent, wilgie , a red ochre used to paint the body on ceremonial occasions, and wongi , a word for an Aboriginal person, originally used around Kalgoorlie.
There are four things according to the Book of Proverbs that are beyond understanding: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
Carvings of the gods, Chaac Mool in particular, along with revered creatures such as the jaguar or the feathered serpent, are produced in stone, onyx, silver, wood, and papier-mâché, in various sizes from lucky talisman for your purse to sculpture for your garden.
Quetzal is a Nahuatl word referring to a bird found in Central America, and coatl means “snake,” so Quetzalcoatl means a “feathered serpent,” and this god is often called the Plumed Serpent.