How to Use snapping turtle in a Sentence

snapping turtle

noun
  • The snapping turtle is Minnesota's largest of the species.
    Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
  • There are beavers, muskrats and brown bats, along with snapping turtles and Easter milk snakes.
    Rich Heileman, cleveland.com, 14 June 2019
  • In fact, her head was gone, bitten off by a snapping turtle.
    Sarah Paley, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2021
  • And in the stomach of a largemouth bass, Herwig's team found a baby snapping turtle.
    Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • In the midst of the story is a snapping turtle that may be hundreds of years old, if age and time actually exist in this place.
    Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Lamb explained that the snapping turtle spends the warmer months in that pond before hibernating in a pond next to the police station.
    Ian Lenahan, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • In mid-November, less than two months after his surgeries, the Center for Wildlife team placed the snapping turtle in water for the first time since it was hit.
    Ian Lenahan, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Turtles larger than 12 inches, such as snapping turtles, are more prone to bite, Badje said.
    Marisa Peryer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2019
  • An officer removed a snapping turtle from the roadway at 6:43 p.m. May 3 at the intersection of Deerbrook and Caves Road.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 23 May 2021
  • An Idaho junior high teacher could face up to six months in jail for allegedly feeding a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students.
    Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 3 June 2018
  • On June 5, police received a call from someone who saw a large snapping turtle on a retaining wall on Lawrence Court in Wilmington.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2021
  • Not all turtles regulate their sexes this way, but snapping turtles are like green sea turtles in this regard.
    Ben Guarino, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2018
  • East Idaho News, citing a law enforcement source, reports that teacher Robert Crosland fed a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students.
    CBS News, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Last week, six wild animals -- four raccoons, one muskrat and one snapping turtle -- were found dead in or around Sulphur Run, a creek that flows through downtown East Palestine and near the derailment site.
    Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Another group showed that regular old toilet plungers work great for taking the snap out of snapping turtles—which is no small miracle.
    Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
  • For Sedaris a snapping turtle with a partly missing foot and a tumor on its head becomes an unlikely leitmotif.
    Alan Cumming, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • Occasionally, a beady-eyed muskrat surfaces on the lake, or a snapping turtle lazily sinks deeper.
    BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The swimmers described the underwater beauty such as seeing a snapping turtle the size of a hula hoop, and the canoeists talked about the above-water beauty, such as bald eagles and wolves howling.
    Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 27 July 2019
  • The volunteer rescue treats turtles as big as 14-inch snapping turtles and as small as silver dollar-sized eastern box turtles.
    Scottie Andrew and Nadeem Muaddi, CNN, 29 June 2019
  • In the most wonderfully weird tale, Sedaris discovers some people feeding snapping turtles Pop Tarts, potato chips and all sorts of other junk food.
    Caroline Leavitt, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
  • And, most importantly, how did this snapping turtle friend end up roaming around Baltimore City?!
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • In Indiana, the eastern snapping turtle, the smooth softshell turtle and the spiny softshell turtle are considered game species and can be taken by noodling (sometimes called fingering).
    Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2019
  • In March, a junior high biology teacher in Idaho reportedly fed a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students.
    CBS News, 16 May 2018
  • Meanwhile, people all over Massachusetts are painstakingly shepherding snapping turtles out of the road at such a clip that the State Police had to issue a warning, the Globe reported.
    Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2018
  • The case of an Idaho science teacher allegedly feeding a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students at his school is creating an uproar on social media.
    Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2018
  • And his generals have unleashed thousands of intergalactic hounds — what look to be a cross between snapping turtles and WWE wrestlers — upon Wakanda.
    Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The same bill also prohibits the commercial sale of Connecticut snapping turtles, which experts say could be threatened by commercial harvesting for sale as food.
    Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • He is charged after allegedly feeding puppy to snapping turtle.
    Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 10 July 2018
  • The students watched as the sick puppy was eaten alive by a snapping turtle in a Preston, Idaho junior high classroom in early March, state prosecutors alleged in a Friday filing.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 3 June 2018
  • The students watched as the sick puppy was eaten alive by a snapping turtle in a Preston, Idaho, junior high classroom in early March, state prosecutors alleged in a Friday filing.
    The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 3 June 2018

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