How to Use snaky in a Sentence

snaky

adjective

• His hair was long and snaky.
• Flat, cramped maps with a twisting, snaky slew of run-and-turn options.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 18 May 2018
• With dozens of characters, snaky plots, and wild language, this panoramic book might seem hard to bring to the stage.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
• Smooth lawns and snaky ones and weedy ones and some resistant to herbicides.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• Make sure all the snaky cables coming out of the power supply will reach your motherboard with room to spare.
  — Jaina Grey Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2022
• Close up, the adult swan had a snaky neck, glittering black eyes and a waxy orange bill that opened to make nasal, squeaking grunts like an unoiled gate.
  — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• And if your ex-boo was an especially snaky one, pay $20 more to have zoo keepers feed a frozen rat to a reptile instead.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 31 Jan. 2021
• Nichols wrestled with the snaky little creek itself, straightening it from Wornall Road to about where the Dodson tracks just east of Main crossed.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity, 23 Mar. 2018
• Her current go-to look, for example, mixes a letter choker with a snaky chain necklace and a longer pendant.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 May 2022
• My house is old, built in 1902, so the canopy lends it a vaguely William Gibsonian aesthetic: a ramshackle blend of vinyl siding, snaky wiring, and dark promise.
  — Clive Thompson, Wired, 1 Apr. 2020
• In the end, the impossibly snaky rivers, the misbehaving mountains, and the unpronounceable names are not the most important part of the fantasy map.
  — Adrian Daub, Longreads, 24 Aug. 2017
• Tybalt is snaky and fueled by a constant need for rage and revenge; Perrineau’s Mercutio lives for the spotlight and bending and blurring gender norms.
  — Mekita Rivas, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Nov. 2021
• So like Plume's first-generation pods, a Superpod won't ugly up the joint with snaky power cords or clutter up any bookshelf or table space.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
• Over a classically snaky John Frusciante guitar line and tasty, jazzy Flea bass snap, Keidis checks off some classic rock signposts.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2022
• Political divisions in Oregon can to a great degree be measured by a river, the Deschutes, which winds its snaky, circuitous way through the state’s midsection.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• Keep an eye on the slinking, spying curiosity of a man whose snaky sheath of an outfit suits his personality most capably.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2022
• Her fat Fanta Man, with his wide mouth, snaky, wandering tongue, empty eye sockets, lewdly pliant fingers, and birthday party crown cap, is a kind of underground lord of the revels.
  — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 22 July 2021
• Images captured by transmission electron microscopy show blobs of collagen bundles and long, snaky cells.
  — Jacey Fortin, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2018

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