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• However, at the base of the tree lived a dragon or serpent.2015, Matthew Champion, chapter 17, in Medieval Graffiti: The Lost Voices of England’s Churches, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 165. From the entry peridexion
• Like the contemporary urban myth, tales of stomach frogs and "bosom serpents" persisted because they have truthiness.2013, Mary Roach, chapter 8, in Gulp. From the entry truthiness
• Manhattan can be read as a version of Ouroboros, the serpent who swallows its own tail.2008, Elizabeth K. Rosen, Apocalyptic Transformation: Apocalypse and the Postmodern Imagination, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry ouroborosian
• Here Apollo killed a serpent called the Python, and established a great prophetic shrine.1995, Gordon MacDonald Kirkwood, A Short Guide to Classical Mythology, page 11. From the entry python
• Fact, we been a-trying to unwriggle old Bill Swyer from his serpent now for many a year.a. 1979, David Edgar, Ecclesiastes: A Radio Play, Methuen Drama, published 2002, →ISBN, page 408. From the entry unwriggle
• The first choice listed is Gonggong, a Chinese water god with red hair and the tail of a serpent.2019 April 12, en, “Should That Minor Planet Be Named Gonggong? Astronomers Want the Public’s Help”, in The New York Times (Science…. From the entry Gonggong
• Winged, feathered serpents of considerable size and power, the couatl seeks to defend its territory against all invaders.2012, Timothy Groves, The Book Of Creatures, page 44. From the entry couatl
• The other was a giant many-headed serpent.2011, Dwain Smith, Bullheaded, CreateSpace, page 38. From the entry heroing
• Khepera bent over himself is a uroboros, the serpent eating its own tail, a magic circle of regeneration and rebirth.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41. From the entry ouroboros
• She meets sirens and sea serpents and hidebehinds, wicked kings and repulsive recluses, capitalist magicians and seven-league boots and magic pomegranates.1984, John Wood Campbell, editor, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact. From the entry hidebehind
• If Wissenkunst is itself turned into political apologetics, then the fabulous plumed serpent is turned into a monster, a basilisk.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry basilisk
• Many savages believe that by annually casting their skins serpents and other animals renew their youth and live for ever.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 50. From the entry cast
• Their protagonists are strange beings created by the ardent popular fancy, Baba-Iaga, serpents with six or twelve heads, stags, horses, etc.1912, A[urelio] Palmieri, “Russia”, in Charles G[eorge] Herbermann, Edward A[loysius] Pace, Condé B[enoist] Pallen, Thomas J[oseph]…. From the entry Baba-Iaga
• Compare the two twi-headed serpents which Loeg, in the Serglige Conculaind, sees on the plain of Mag Denna.1903, Henry Arbois de Jubainville, The Irish mythological cycle and Celtic mythology. From the entry twi-headed
• The authors devote a fascinating excursus to the Western imagination’s preoccupation with serpents—from Eden to esoterica—and how this primed the ground for Kuṇḍalinī’s reception.2025 December 10, Massimo Introvigne, ““The Serpent’s Tale”: Kuṇḍalinī Without a Leash”, in Bitter Winter. From the entry excursus
• She lunged then, faster than Orsa had, something black and terrible in her face like a serpent about to unleash a fangful of venom.2020, Kiran Millwood Hargrave, A Secret of Birds & Bone, unnumbered page. From the entry fangful
• Theseus couldn’t be sure, because his heroing specialty had never been serpents, but he was pretty sure that it was the Lernean Hydra.2011, Dwain Smith, Bullheaded, CreateSpace, page 38. From the entry heroing
• The right end of the arch is effaced beyond recognition but the left end presents the raised hood of a pentacephalous serpent.2010, Parul Pandya Dhar, The Toraṇa in Indian and Southeast Asian Architecture, D.K. Printworld, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry pentacephalous
• In some European Garden of Eden tales, the woman and the serpent are hybridized into a creature referred to as a draconcopedes.2009, Peter Metevelis, Japanese Mythology and the Primeval World: A Comparative Symbolic Approach, →ISBN, page 39. From the entry draconcopedes
• 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
• "There was a serpent in the gryphon's eye, he realized slowly, a snake and a hawk that danced and circled one another.1987, Meredith Ann Pierce, Birth of the Firebringer, page 39. From the entry formel
• What is expressed in the lotus, the plumed serpent, or the staff of Osiris is the yogi's knowledge of the three brains of man.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry brain
• To develop the higher mind one must first lower himself to raise the serpent, or set up the Tet pillar of Osiris.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry tet
• The nuns' veils billowed and flapped behind the snaky line of girls as if the sisters were shooing the serpent from the Garden of Eden.1942, Emily Carr, “Chain Gang”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry billow
• A gaudy grotto of blocked canvas huefully painted — green serpents with flame eyes, rosy, bustious nymphs caught athwart aggressive fish tails.1927, Samuel Ornitz, A Yankee passional. From the entry huefully
• Thus the Aegypto-Greek Ourobouros or Norse Jörmungandr (Midgard serpent) surrounds the cosmos, biting its own tail in a symbol of perpetuity and infinity, never ending, always regenerating.2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, page 70. From the entry Jörmungandr
• Yggdrasil was reputedly a gigantic ash tree (and was the central feature of Norse cosmology), around the base of which the serpent Níôhöggr had twisted its body.2007, Bob Curran, Ian Daniels, Walking with the Green Man: Father of the Forest, Spirit of Nature, page 66. From the entry Yggdrasil
• There he attacks Ebion, the supposed leader of a Jewish-Christian “heresy” of the Ebionites: But he is making a completely false accusation—this dreadful serpent with his poverty of understanding.2007, Petri Luomanen, Ilkka Pyysiäinen, Risto Uro, Explaining Christian Origins and Early Judaism, page 221. From the entry Ebion
• He struggled out of the water, by clawing into the slipperiness, and climbing, not knowing if he was crawling onto the body of a sea serpent.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 475. From the entry slipperiness
• The serpents of Paradise and of Moses took him back to the dawn of man, to the prophets, to Yahweh, a world that seemed brutal and archaic to him.2002, Jonathan F. Krell, transl., Eleazar, Exodus to the West, Lincoln, Neb.; London: University of Nebraska Press, translation of Éléazar…. From the entry paleotestamentary
• The Seleucid and Dendera Zodiacs are illustrations of the pictograph tradition from the 5th phase, showing the zodiac plus the four ‘parazodiacal’ animals (crow, serpent, eagle, and southern fish).1998, John H. Roger, “Origins of the ancient constellations: I. The Mesopotamian traditions”, in Journal of the British Astronomy…. From the entry pictograph
• The two works have the attractive lilt of Middle English, with all the remedies for bites of serpents and cures for eye troubles of the day.1978, Keith Vincent Smith, The Illustrated Earth Garden Herbal, Melbourne: Thomas Nelson Australia, page 23, column 2. From the entry lilt
• The tortoise, possessing, like the serpent, the power of retaining life in its limbs after mutilation or decapitation, became a symbol of androgynity as well as of immortality.1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the…. From the entry decapitation

Meaning of serpent

1. noun A snake.
2. noun A snake-like creature, such as a sea serpent.
3. noun A person who is subtle, malicious, treacherous, or deceiving.

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How do you use serpent in a sentence?

Serpent is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Any serpent six feet long looks formidable; and over that length, one takes on the aspect of a chimera.”

What is a short sentence with serpent?

“The other was a giant many-headed serpent.”

What does serpent mean?

Serpent means a snake.