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• The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.From the entry consumption
• The official notice will be sent via both email and snail mail owing to legal requirements.From the entry snail mail
• The garden snail, a blue-blooded land animal, is sometimes seen as food, sometimes as pest.From the entry blue-blooded
• I came home to a mailbox stuffed with snail mail.From the entry snail mail
• Last night I had a vividly scary dream about an immortal snail that chased me around and could kill me if it touched me.From the entry dream
• We spot several routs of snails moving around, half buried in the sandy beach.2022 December 15, Tania Banerjee, “Offbeat Mumbai: A shorewalk in Juhu”, in Azure Sky Follows. From the entry rout
• You're moving slower than when my yaya tried to ride a snail to the next village.”2020 June 3, William Meny, “Witches” (4:25 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 2, episode 9, spoken by Nadja (Natasia…. From the entry yaya
• Mandarin ducks feed mainly on insects, snails, fish, plants and seeds.2019, Kate Baker, Wild In The City, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry mandarin duck
• Virtually, almost all snail shells wind in the clockwise direction (mathematically negative) when viewed from above.2017, Georg Glaeser, Math Tools: 500+ Applications in Science and Arts, page 330. From the entry snail king
• For years I had been carrying the burden of molluscophobia, an extreme fear of snails.2017, Maria Hocking, “Finding Self Love”, in Strip Naked and Re-Dress with Happiness: How to Survive and Thrive Through Personal…. From the entry molluscophobia
• The presence of a snail could reduce me to an uncontrollable and quivering wreck within seconds.2017, Maria Hocking, “Finding Self Love”, in Strip Naked and Re-Dress with Happiness: How to Survive and Thrive Through Personal…. From the entry molluscophobia
• Sea butterflies are pteropods: sea snails that swim by flapping pad-like ‘feet’ which have grown into wings.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 284. From the entry sea butterfly
• Quarantine to prevent introduction of parasitic pyramidellid snails and protozoan disease (Perkinsia).2001, Julian Sprung, “Tridacna”, in Invertebrates: A Quick Reference Guide, page 119. From the entry pyramidellid
• The eater can also destroy a snail, but changes its phase while doing so.1997 November 30, David Bell, “Day & Night - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 2/5)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry eater
• The hollow, transparent tooth of a cone snail can remain lodged in the puncture wound.1997, Craig Thomas, Susan Scott, All Stings Considered: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Hawaii's Marine Injuries, passage 25. From the entry textile cone
• Richard's suit of Ursula was progressing, albeit at the pace of a snail on Tuinal.1996, Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Bloomsbury, published 2011, page 68. From the entry Tuinal
• Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 14. From the entry basher
• The great majority of the holopod snails have a vegetarian diet.1959, Fieldiana: Zoology, page 116. From the entry holopod
• After one trip to Uganda, I tested positive for bilharzia, a type of parasitic worm infection carried by freshwater snails.2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 14. From the entry bilharzia
• And marine snails called actaeonellids abounded, the largest of which, shaped like an artillery shell, would fill your hand.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 27. From the entry acteonellid
• This is not the case with the "snail king".2017, Georg Glaeser, Math Tools: 500+ Applications in Science and Arts, page 330. From the entry snail king
• Researchers in Japan have altered the destiny of a rout of snails by changing the chirality of their shells before birth.26 Nov 2009, James Dacey, “Snail shell spiral switched”, in Physics World. From the entry rout
• Snails were not fed during exposure to the phytoextracts.2007, Shabad Preet, Anamike Kudeshiya, Laboratory Evaluation of Molluscicidal and Cercaricidal Potential of Artemisia annua (Family…. From the entry phytoextract
• They're beset by blennophobia, the fear of slime, and spend long hours plotting the annihilation of slugs and snails.2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry blennophobia
• These species breed in a variety of both terrestrial and marine snails, although there is no obvious pattern of coevolution.2005, “Revision of New World Species of Shore Fly Genus Discomyza Meigen (Diptera: Ephydridae)”, in Annals of the Entomological Society of…. From the entry coevolution
• I survey the ice-lined crates containing sea snails, rock cod, sea urchin and a Vancouver favorite, geoduck (pronounced gooey-duck)—a giant clam.2004 April, Smithsonian, page 92. From the entry geoduck
• A snailicide is for killing snails and slugs.1957 March 24, “What Those Names On Spray Guns Mean”, in The Miami Herald, 47th year, number 112, page 10-B, column 3. From the entry snailicide
• The waggon seemed slower than a snail to Frodo.1954, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Short Cut to Mushrooms”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the…. From the entry wagon
• Once upon the stone he slowed to snail pace, straining his sight to avoid the pockets and holes.1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC. From the entry snail pace
• A cousin to the ever-popular Cottagecore, Goblincore celebrates parts of nature that many would perceive as dirty or unsettling, like frogs, snails, and mushrooms.2020, Piper Daffron, "At The Core", Season Magazine (Indiana University), Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall/Winter 2020, page 4. From the entry goblincore
• Even Seraphine was excited to find a grotto for the Virgin Mary behind a silverbeet forest, Buddha, Ganesh and an escargatoire of snails in attendance.2013, Sarah Laing, The Fall of Light, Penguin Random House New Zealand. From the entry escargatoire
• Snail trails act as conduits for lint and dead skin cells to travel up from your pants and underwear into the belly button.2008 August 5, Don Voorhees, Disgusting Things: a Miscellany, Penguin, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry snail trail
• In their presentism, they forgot that long distance ties had been flourishing for generations, using automobiles, telephones, airplanes, and even postal (snail) mail.2004, Barry Wellman, Bernie Hogan, “The Immanent Internet”, in Johnston McKay, editor, Netting Citizens: Exploring Citizenship in a…. From the entry presentism
• The examples also exemplify the three forms that compound words take: 1) open compound (snail mail); 2) hyphenated compound (eagle-eyed); and 3) solid compound (bookworm).1992, Sheila Davis, The Songwriter's Idea Bookhttps://books.google.com/books?id=6hhjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT143. From the entry open compound
• Like a bird regarding a snail.1981, Maurice Duggan, Christian Karlson Stead, Collected Stories, page 37. From the entry birdeye
• It is likely that the slime produced by the snail itself may contribute, at least partly, to the formation of a slimeball.1976, J[ames] D[esmond] Smyth, “Digenea: Bucephalidae, Fasciolidae, Opisthorchiidae, Dicrocoeliidae”, in Introduction to Animal…. From the entry slimeball
• If, however, a heavy rain occurs just after seeding, snails destroy the seedlings unless the snails are eliminated by the application of a chemical snailicide.1970, Rice Research & Training in the 70’s, International Rice Research Institute, page 43. From the entry snailicide
• Snail clover (sainfoin), gallion or petty muggalt, wild fitch and haver (oat) grass were all recommended as profitable forage, but what the second was I do not know.2019, G. E. Fussell, The English Dairy Farmer: 1500-1900. From the entry fitch
• Baby cephalopods, even octopuses, all have a shell sac, which is comparable to the mantle folds that baby clams and snails use to make their shells.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry shell sac

Meaning of snail

1. noun Any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.
2. noun A slow person; a sluggard.
3. noun A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock.

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How do you use snail in a sentence?

Snail is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The cars were snailing along the motorway during the rush hour.”

What is a short sentence with snail?

“Like a bird regarding a snail.”

What does snail mean?

Snail means any of very many animals (either hermaphroditic or nonhermaphroditic), of the class Gastropoda, having a coiled shell.