Example sentences for: serpent

How can you use “serpent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • The Mexica Aztecs traveled south under the guidance of the god Huitzilopochtli, who advised them to look for an eagle perched on a prickly pear cactus, devouring a serpent.

  • 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.

  • Among the most important works from the 14th to the 18th centuries are Simone Martini’s St. Catherine of Alexandria, Cranach’s Venus, Hans Baldung Grien’s Eve, the Serpent and Death, Hans Memling’s Virgin, Christ and St. Anthony, Bronzino’s Portrait of a Man, Annibale Carracci’s Vision of St. Francis, Poussin’s Landscape with a Woman Washing Her Feet, Rubens’ Entombment of Christ, Rembrandt’s Heroine from the Old Testament, and Chardin’s The Governess.

  • 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.


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