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How to use fang in a sentence

39 example sentences · noun, verb

Fang means a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh. Example: “There were two small punctures in his arm where the snake's fangs had pierced the skin.”

Examples of fang by meaning

verbTo drive, ride, etc. at high speed or recklessly.

  • Soph was probably out drag-racing with Draz, or fanging down some brightly lit street somewhere hanging out Draz's brother's sunroof and waving at passers-by and screaming.2008, Mardi McConnochie, “The Mission”, in Dangerous Games
  • Batman changed gears and fanged the car a little too fast around a corner, almost skidding onto Elizabeth Street at the back of Redfern.2017, Karen M. Davis, Fatal Mistake

More sentences with fang

  • There were two small punctures in his arm where the snake's fangs had pierced the skin.From the entry puncture
  • He was killed by coyotes; he died by tooth, fang, and claw.From the entry tooth, fang, and claw
  • Most primates have a tail and fangs.From the entry tail
  • He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty.From the entry kitty
  • Fang, fearing for his job, had to issue a Maoist-style apology for reporting wrongthink.2020 November 6, David Bernstein, “The Revolution is Eating its Own”, in The Volokh Conspiracy. From the entry wrongthink
  • “Give each other fang jobs?” “Yes.” “All the time,” he said, nodding.2020, Sophie Stern, Vampire Kiss. From the entry fang job
  • My brothers drew huge fangs and devil tails on all my posters of Robert Pattinson.'2014, Samantha Tonge, From Paris, With Love, Carina, published 2014, →ISBN. From the entry twihard
  • The werecrocodile laughed at him, the feral grin of a predator displaying nightmarish fangs.2012, Ilona Andrews, “Retribution Clause”, in P. N. Elrod, editor, Hex Appeal, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry werecrocodile
  • Damian took Mara's hand and pulled it to his lips to give her a fang job.2008, Gerry Bartlett, Real Vampires Have Curves, page 113. From the entry fang job
  • Fields’ cookie store on Pine, sinking his fangs into a chocolate chippie with pride and poise.”1985 January 24, “Voice Box”, in Citizens’ Voice, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page 69. From the entry chocolate chippie
  • She matched wits with the wilderness, met claw and fang with horns and cowsense.1975, Orville K. Sweet, Birth of a Breed: The History of Polled Herefords, page 2. From the entry cowsense
  • Here he again approached Teeka only to be again greeted with bared fangs and menacing growls.1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 3, in Jungle Tales of Tarzan, A. C. McClurg. From the entry placate
  • With bared fangs and bristling necks they advanced slowly toward him, with deep-throated, ominous growls.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 196. From the entry bull
  • Eager 'fang farriers' hurried forward to scrape the bottoms of the hotboxes and dixies of everything that was left.2022, Chris Pratt, Four Brothers in the Pacific War. From the entry hotbox
  • And how do those different animals use their fangs?2021, April Graham Farr, editor, Uncle John's Hindsight Is 20/20 Bathroom Reader: The Future Is Family, Friends, Facts, and Fun…. From the entry fangfully
  • Metallic fangs are widely used by avis combatants, many of them often equipped with spears under their wings.2017, Daniel A. Liut, Reality: The Struggle for Sternessence, BQB Publishing, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry aviarian
  • Below her formidable eyes her fangs are flanked by limb-like mouthparts: her palps, coloured a startling white like a quivering moustache.2015, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Time, Pan Books (2016), page 20. From the entry palp
  • Long hypodermic fangs deliver a whopping dose of venom.2009, John Kricher, “For the Love of Biodiversity (and Stable Ecosystems?)”, in The Balance of Nature: Ecology’s Enduring Myth, Princeton…. From the entry whopping
  • I stood there waiting for the three remaining Rottweilers to come barreling toward the fence, fangs switchbladed open.2009, Erik Raschke, The Book of Samuel: A Novel, →ISBN, page 200. From the entry switchblade
  • Diagram of mold for casting a fang ding.2007 [1995], W. T. Chase, “Chinese Bronzes: Casting, Finishing, Patination, and Corrosion”, in David A. Scott, Jerry Podany, Brian B.…. From the entry interleg
  • Yet, with their receding foreheads, wicked little close-set eyes, and yellow fangs, they were far from prepossessing in appearance.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 165. From the entry close-set
  • Raise your fangs, all who agree.”2019 May 8, Jemaine Clement, “The Trial” (18:29 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Tilda (Tilda…. From the entry vampicide
  • Gabriel grabbed her wrist and spun her around, stepping forward right in her face, showing a brief flash of fangs this time.2017 June 29, Ally Shields, Embers of Fire, Etopia Press, →ISBN. From the entry flash
  • Weakness was her enemy, the taloned beast that lived in her chest and couldn't wait to sharpen its fangs on her heart.2017, J. T. Ellison, So Close the Hand of Death. From the entry taloned
  • Even though most bats are small, timid creatures, something about those leathery wings and tiny fangs seems to trip our self-preservation alarms.2011, Linda S. Godfrey, Monsters of Wisconsin, page 37. From the entry chiroptophobia
  • There is a toxin in a vampire’s fangs that will infect its victim when the sire drinks deeply and fully of their blood.2010, Michelle Rowen, Bitten & Smitten, page 24. From the entry sire
  • African vipers are hazardous to pin and hold by the head, as experienced herpetologists will attest, because they have the longest fangs in snakedom.2006, Delfi Messinger, Grains of Golden Sand: Adventures in War-Torn Africa, page 31. From the entry snakedom
  • The Missouri, that grand, sprawling, unpredictable serpent has been sideboarded and tamed, its occasional venom squeezed for the foreseeable future from its muddy fangs.2004, The North Dakota Quarterly - Volume 71, Issues 1-2, page 67. From the entry sideboard
  • On hind legs, with threatening yellow fangs and matted belly fur in her face, the bear swatted at her as if she were an insect.2002 November 8, Midge Shusta, “Moon of the Green Mountain Mornings”, in Tsali’s Hatchet, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stBooks, →ISBN, page 86. From the entry plum-colored
  • Earthlets have no fangs at birth.1988, Jeanne Willis, Tony Ross, Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets. From the entry earthlet
  • Acrochordus javanicus of Java (illustrated here) like the other wart snakes hunts fish and for this reason has modified its teeth into long fangs.1987, Elena Marcon, Manuel Mongini, World Encyclopedia of Animals, page 158. From the entry wart snake
  • The reptile buried its fangs into the crown of the hat in a midair strike that slapped the Stetson to the floorboards between them.1983, J. D. Hardin, Heather, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry midair
  • It was a red drama of the primitive—destruction amuck and ariot, the primordial embodied in fangs and talons, gone mad and plunging in slaughter.1935 February, Robert E. Howard, chapter 5, in Weird Tales. From the entry ariot
  • He kept the fire brightly blazing, for he knew that it alone intervened between the flesh of his body and their hungry fangs.1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter III, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published…. From the entry intervene
  • Where a mammal had its canine teeth, great fangs walrused down from the grezzen's upper jaw, as long as scimitars and as thick as human thighs.2011, Robert Buettner, Overkill. From the entry walrus
  • Charli XCX bares her fangs on this new track, proving that even though she’s all of 18 years old, she’s more-than-ready for adult life—at least in the romance department.2011 August 29, Brendan Hasenstab, “Track of the Day: ‘Stay Away’”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic…. From the entry Mr. Wrong
  • At a track day there are just so many factors in your favour, that serious fanging on the public road just has to be for the maddies.1999 February 8, CrazyCam Manson, “Putty Rd bike down?”, in aus.motorcycles (Usenet). From the entry maddie

Meaning of fang

  1. noun A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.
  2. noun Synonym of mandible, the long mouthpart of insects and other invertebrates.
  3. noun A long, pointed tooth in snakes, used for injecting venom.

Full definition of fang

Questions about fang in a sentence

How do you use fang in a sentence?
Fang is used as a noun and verb. For example: “There were two small punctures in his arm where the snake's fangs had pierced the skin.”
What is a short sentence with fang?
“Earthlets have no fangs at birth.”
What does fang mean?
Fang means a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh.

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