"snake" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He could see fine detail: rivers like twisted snakes, undersea landscapes, a straight black thread that might be a Machine People highway.
- It stretched away to either side of center for miles, sprawled like a twisted snake atop the blue- gray sea.
- He had thrown the scarf on the floor where it lay like a twisted white snake.
- The warglobe loomed closer, jagged blue weapon bolts dancing like twisted snakes across the isolated sky.
- More machinery, cogs and wheels, a long, twisted snake of wire hawser, all dumped there and disintegrating in the cold and the wind and the snow.
- The heavy baroque furniture, all twisted snakes and gargoyles' heads, was gilt, the huge couches and chairs covered in a dusty gold lame.
- In one group scene, a man waves a prop resembling a twisted snake.
- The twisted snakes that acted as ferrules on ceremonial staffs are amongst the less elaborate objects fashioned in this way.
- Overhead, spanning the gully, stood the highway viaduct where Maharal's vehicle began its fatal plummet, the guardrail a twisted snake of shredded metal.
- It was cushioned in black velvet, and above it was a bent arch of ivory on which glittered a twisted snake of clustered emeralds.
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