How to Use boa constrictor in a Sentence

boa constrictor

noun
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  • Suddenly, Jackson’s pet boa constrictor slithers into the room.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Members of the Boidae family, including anacondas and boa constrictors, as well as members of the python family, are forbidden to keep as pets.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
  • The shaman wraps the skin of a boa constrictor around her arm.
    — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
  • Apart from the one about the mother-in-law and the sharks...the taxman and the boa constrictor....
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • But the boa constrictor—and its breath—finds a way through.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2022
  • And its wide, square stance grips the entire width of the road in a hug as tight as a boa constrictor.
    — Fortune, 19 Apr. 2018
  • At the Zoo, Scott found himself in the trunk of an elephant and wrapped up in a boa constrictor.
    — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • McAdam owned his pet boa constrictor, named Big Shirl, for more than a decade.
    — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
  • This unit is more like a boa constrictor, ensnaring its prey in a vice-like grip.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • That’s when Alabama slowly squeezed the life out of teams like a boa constrictor.
    — John Talty | [email protected], al, 31 Dec. 2021
  • In 2020, a man in California was about to use the toilet when a boa constrictor popped out.
    — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Nothing is more astounding than the boa constrictors at the Bronx Zoo.
    — Ernest Slyman, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • The close-up photo of a snake, which was taken in the same area, is definitely a boa constrictor.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • As for that final Eagles drive, the possession that wrapped itself around the Bears’ neck like a boa constrictor and squeezed the life out of their hopes?
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Georgia’s defense seems more like a boa constrictor at times due to all of its five-star talent.
    — Christopher Smith, al, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Ryan walks into the war room and stops dead in front of a screen displaying what looks like an ultrasound of a boa constrictor.
    — Genesee Keevil, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
  • If the fossils didn’t draw them in, the air hockey table did, and there was always one or two show-offs brave enough to have the boa constrictor draped over their shoulders.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2022
  • Coiled up in a passenger's carry-on was a 4' boa constrictor!
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Wildlife trapper Bob Cross captured the snake, identified it as a boa constrictor and suffered a bite — but the critter wasn’t venomous.
    — Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 July 2018
  • Police were called to an Asheville hotel on Monday for an unusual guest – a 5-foot-long boa constrictor.
    — Lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 24 Oct. 2017
  • When one student stumbles across a reference to a boa constrictor, the Bakersfield, Calif., teacher stops to describe how the snake squeezes its prey to death.
    — New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
  • That said, the boa constrictor approach of the defending champions should be too much in the end because the Buckeyes will have to play an almost perfect game and that's too much to ask.
    — USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
  • This red tail boa constrictor was taken into custody by FWC.
    — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 24 June 2019
  • Watching a boa constrictor capture and consume its prey is quite something.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Travel pillows compound the folly by enveloping the neck with a felt boa constrictor.
    — Karen Heller, The Know, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Flickr/jinterwasWe all know that constrictor snakes, like pythons and boa constrictors, kill by squeezing their prey.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2015
  • Their logic seems otherworldly: A man stands in a corner with a giant white-and-yellow boa constrictor around his neck as people flock around the snake.
    — Bon Appétit, 18 Feb. 2022
  • Two years later, an Ohio woman called 911, reporting a boa constrictor was wrapped around her waist and was holding onto her nose.
    — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 21 July 2022
  • Coffee’s pythons were housed by Bill McAdam, the owner of the pregnant boa constrictor that mistakenly got killed, according to the report.
    — Garfield Hylton, Orlando Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Police said this snake, identified as a boa constrictor, was seen in an area behind CVS in Lexington.
    — Emily Sweeney, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2023

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