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
• Between mud, darkness, and snapping turtles, the world of the pond was at first one of anxiety for her.
  — Liam Archacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
• 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
• An alligator and a dozen snapping turtles were seized and turned over to the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2023
• Compared to the white tail and jowl meat, the legs of alligators and snapping turtles both are much darker, fattier, and tougher.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 9 Aug. 2023
• 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
• According to the Daily Pilot, wildlife officials in California are blaming a snapping turtle for mutilating five ducks and geese at a public park over the course of a year.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 9 Nov. 2023
• 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
• He was also ordered to forfeit interest in the tiger, alligator and 12 snapping turtles that were taken away back in January.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024