How to Use mamba in a Sentence

mamba

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  • The black mamba gets its name for the inside of its mouth, which is black.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2023
  • This is what makes the black mamba one of the deadliest animals around the world.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2021
  • A golfer in South Africa stopped in the middle of a game to film two black mamba snakes entwined in a fierce battle over a female on the green.
    — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
  • Here’s a video of a snake expert removing a black mamba.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Like the black mamba, the color of the inside of the cottonmouth moccasin’s mouth inspires its name, not its scales.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2022
  • So why does the black mamba have potent painkillers in its arsenal?
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
  • Sniffing a chance to make some bucks, Sammy orders a black mamba from a friend in Boise, Idaho.
    — Gerald Bartell, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
  • These range from observing the approach of a mamba in Kenya to being let out of a speeding ticket at 2 a.m. in New York.
    — Bill Heavey, WSJ, 27 May 2022
  • In April, Gifford said he was bitten by a West African green mamba while cleaning the enclosures in his home.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • Two drops are enough to kill you, and an angry mamba gives multiple bites, squirting lots and lots of venom with each one.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 June 2020
  • Blood is already dripping from fang marks on his right arm, left there moments earlier by a ten-foot-long black mamba.
    — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 16 May 2019
  • Even Chandler, however, didn’t see the need to have sections narrated by a black mamba.
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 18 May 2018
  • Temperamentally, the Gaboon viper is at the opposite end of the spectrum from the black mamba.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 30 June 2020
  • Without antivenom, a bite from a black mamba snake is usually lethal.
    — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
  • Without antivenom, a bite from a black mamba snake is usually lethal.
    — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
  • The venom of the black mamba snake, one of the world’s deadliest poisons administered by one of the world’s deadliest reptiles, can kill you within half an hour.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2012
  • If an attacker does not back down, the black mamba will strike it over and over, injecting a plethora of potent neurotoxins each time.
    — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
  • If an attacker does not back down, the black mamba will strike it over and over, injecting a plethora of potent neurotoxins each time.
    — National Geographic, 25 May 2017
  • Though species like the boomslang or the king cobra are dangerous thanks to their respective poisons, the black mamba is especially deadly due to its speed.
    — Daniel Jameson, CNT, 10 July 2017
  • Though species like the boomslang or the king cobra are dangerous thanks to their respective poisons, the black mamba is especially deadly due to its speed.
    — Daniel Jameson, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The coral snake is a whole different genus from the other venomous snakes of Alabama, being more closely related to the cobra or black mamba than the copperhead.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Last year, researchers from Denmark and Costa Rica used such a method to make experimental antidotes that saved mice from the venom of the black mamba, a deadly African snake.
    — Megan Molteni, Wired, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The venom of the green mamba — one the most dangerous snakes in Africa — might one day help to treat people who have a genetic disorder that affects the kidneys, according to a new study conducted in mice.
    — Fox News, 23 June 2017
  • Green mamba bites may cause dizziness, nausea and irregular heartbeat , and can be fatal.
    — Fox News, 23 June 2017
  • Ramirez concentrates specifically on the Northern Pacific and prairie rattlesnakes that frequent Northern California, but he has been called on to remove a black mamba and a cobra.
    — Scott Strazzante, SFChronicle.com, 28 July 2019
  • While mamba venom toxins already have medical potential, the variations that exist now represent merely a snapshot in time in the long evolutionary history of these compounds.
    — Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Only 15 patients exhibited severe symptoms, including a conservationist who had previously been bitten by an eastern green mamba and later died after being bitten by a king cobra.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2022

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