How to Use fang in a Sentence

fang

noun
  • The beast stood 15 feet tall and stretched 20 feet from front fangs to the tip of its tail.
    David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
  • Sasha feels her fangs break through her gums and flees.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But mimicry might be the key to its survival, even without the fangs.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
  • And the tusks looked like fangs, perfect for a monster.
    Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The next night, the creature sinks its fangs under her skin.
    Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Oladipo smiles a charming smile, but his fangs are about to come out.
    Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2018
  • As always, the show’s fiery host will have her comedic fangs bared. 10:30 p.m., TBS.
    Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2017
  • At their wildest, the girls fuse into a wolf pack, donning fangs and snarling at the moon.
    Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The fangs of flames devoured houses just a few blocks from her.
    Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Some people have fangs and like to bite other people—that’s the way of the world.
    Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This bill is a tax cut in sheep's clothing, and the sheep's clothing doesn't even fit very well over the fangs.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2017
  • The creature, which had fangs and eight legs, lived some 100 million years ago.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Sometimes the cats even turned their fangs on each other.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • Instead, the schools know that he is got blood dripping from his fangs here.
    Staff Reports, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The tarantula's fangs are nearly half an inch long, about a sixth the size of its body.
    Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The tarantula’s fangs are nearly half an inch long, about a sixth the size of its body.
    Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Claws and fangs fill my sight, and every instinct screams kill.
    David Canfield, EW.com, 17 July 2019
  • Icy outcroppings rose like fangs out of a pink-rimmed sky.
    Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • The tiger lunged at the smaller feline, and when Yates came between them, he was sliced by Ming’s fangs.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
  • In Africa and Asia, avoid ivory products, and anything with rhino horn, and tiger fangs and claws.
    Diane Daniel, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Its jaws swing open; the fangs, each an inch of needle-sharp, hollow bone, unhinge from the roof of its mouth.
    Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • But perhaps most concerning of all, the NL West has fangs.
    Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 30 May 2017
  • The main lesson: If Google is a data vampire, Chrome is its fangs.
    The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
  • In hollow fangs, the venom gland runs inside the fang as though running through a tube.
    Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2018
  • When the kingsnake refused to let go, Rothacker was forced to use his fingernail to pry the fangs loose and pull the snake from its own mouth.
    Fox News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Tie it all together with a black dress, white face powder, and some fangs.
    Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 16 July 2019
  • Jauregui is bitten by the fangs of love when one handsome bloke in a spiked jacket brings her whole world to a halt.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Both are pit vipers and have triangular heads and fangs.
    Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Others are baring their fangs at it, calling it a hot mess.
    Mark Dawidziak, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2020
  • According to a Dena'ina story, Caribou once had fangs and no sense of smell.
    Author: Tamara Ikenberg, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 Sep. 2017

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