How to Use snail in a Sentence

snail

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  • It’s a geo glyph, and the walkways are shaped like a snail.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022
  • Large snails: British workers find a very large snail in the mail.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
  • The largest snail found so far in Pasco was 4.5 inches.
    — al, 8 July 2022
  • An octopus brain is more like the brain of a snail than that of a human.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • That, in turn, allows snails, which the crabs like to consume, to prosper.
    — Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Real snail mucin is clear and applies like a thick gel.
    — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Queen conch, the key food species, is a marine snail that reaches up to a foot in length and can live for 30 years.
    — Patrick Whittle, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
  • At full size, the snails measure between two and six inches in length.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Paths paved with stones from the quarry swirl in snail shapes up to platforms, terraces, and pedestals.
    — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • The mucin and secretion filtrate does come from the snails, but there’s also more to it.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
  • This isn't the first time that snail mucin has been buzzy as a skin care ingredient.
    — Lisa Desantis, Glamour, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Some of the world’s largest snails were recently found right here in metro Detroit.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2023
  • For this sale, three of its most popular snail mucin picks are marked down even more.
    — Buy Side Staff, wsj.com, 10 Oct. 2023
  • That causes the fish’s blood sugar to plummet, stunning them so the snail can capture and eat the fish.
    — Jason P. Dinh, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The presence of the organism — thought to be a sea snail — kept the 14-deck Viking Orion adrift 16 miles off the coast of Adelaide, Australia.
    — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Oyster drills, the snails that are one of the oyster’s main predators, hate it and tend to avoid oysters so exposed.
    — Lawrence Specker | [email protected], al, 2 June 2023
  • And this isn't the snail's first appearance in Florida.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 July 2022
  • The only other time the state declared the snail eradicated was in 1975.
    — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
  • But the problem doesn’t stop with snail slime; there are allegedly fake brand-name perfumes and trendy to-go cups.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The giant African land snail isn't the only pest harmful to agriculture.
    — Teddy Grant, ABC News, 20 June 2023
  • The preparation is simple and all about the butter, which wafts up from those big, bulbous snail shells.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2022
  • If the cochlea were a snail’s shell, the vestibular organs—the saccule, the utricle, and three semicircular canals—would make up the snail’s body.
    — Shayla Love, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Of the hundreds of cartoons Mr. Gross published there, the most famous is of two snails chatting near a tape dispenser.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • There is a small snail on its face, and its display also includes a backlight.
    — Max Berlinger, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Give dry and dull winter skin a boost with the moisture-retaining power of snail mucin.
    — Sarah Hoffmann, Allure, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The Turbo comes with the classic whale tail, wide rear stance, and an extra snail that nests in the engine compartment.
    — Car and Driver, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The process moves at a snail’s pace, and there will be ample time and forums to vet the issues, many of which are legitimate.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Officials say a live snail was last found in that area in 2017, prior to the most recent sighting last week.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 June 2022
  • As a generational business, change often moves at a snail’s pace in the wine industry.
    — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Amid the tumult, there are brief, blissfully peaceful shots of ants skittering up and down a wall, and also of a snail slithering across Sol’s open palm.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2024

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