How to Use boa constrictor in a Sentence

boa constrictor

noun
  • The shaman wraps the skin of a boa constrictor around her arm.
    — National Geographic, 31 May 2019
  • And its wide, square stance grips the entire width of the road in a hug as tight as a boa constrictor.
    — Fortune, 19 Apr. 2018
  • This unit is more like a boa constrictor, ensnaring its prey in a vice-like grip.
    — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Georgia’s defense seems more like a boa constrictor at times due to all of its five-star talent.
    — Christopher Smith, al, 12 Oct. 2020
  • McAdam owned his pet boa constrictor, named Big Shirl, for more than a decade.
    — Kimberly Miller, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
  • That’s when Alabama slowly squeezed the life out of teams like a boa constrictor.
    — John Talty | [email protected], al, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Coiled up in a passenger's carry-on was a 4' boa constrictor!
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Watching a boa constrictor capture and consume its prey is quite something.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2022
  • At the Zoo, Scott found himself in the trunk of an elephant and wrapped up in a boa constrictor.
    — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • But like the albino boa constrictor, Booth says, this parthenogen was super weird about things.
    — Byrd Pinkerton, Vox, 12 June 2024
  • Who can resist a Saturday night spent with a boa constrictor or a python or an iguana?
    — Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The close-up photo of a snake, which was taken in the same area, is definitely a boa constrictor.
    — Carol Robinson, AL.com, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The archipelago is also the only place in the world with tree-dwelling pink boa constrictors.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Ryan walks into the war room and stops dead in front of a screen displaying what looks like an ultrasound of a boa constrictor.
    — Genesee Keevil, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2018
  • Nothing is more astounding than the boa constrictors at the Bronx Zoo.
    — Ernest Slyman, New York Times, 21 June 2018
  • Not a rattler, but a baby boa constrictor (named Little Bitch).
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 May 2026
  • When coiled around a lizard or throttling a bird, a boa constrictor doesn't actually suffocate its prey.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In Cabo Rojo, boa constrictors are smaller than those elsewhere on the island.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2024
  • The Nuggets’ shooters, meanwhile, had blasted out of the gate hotter than a boa constrictor’s backside.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Flickr/jinterwasWe all know that constrictor snakes, like pythons and boa constrictors, kill by squeezing their prey.
    — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Oct. 2015
  • In 2020, a man in California was about to use the toilet when a boa constrictor popped out.
    — CBS News, 11 Aug. 2023
  • To discover this process, the researchers wrapped boa constrictors with blood pressure cuffs to prevent certain parts of their chests from expanding.
    — Lars Fischer, Scientific American, 1 July 2022
  • Police were called to an Asheville hotel on Monday for an unusual guest – a 5-foot-long boa constrictor.
    — Lavendrick Smith, charlotteobserver, 24 Oct. 2017
  • This boa constrictor was caught on X-ray in a bag at Tampa International.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 6 Jan. 2023
  • As for that final Eagles drive, the possession that wrapped itself around the Bears’ neck like a boa constrictor and squeezed the life out of their hopes?
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Help was also required when homeowners in Naples saw a boa constrictor measuring over 9 feet in their backyard.
    — Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 2 Nov. 2025
  • The firefighters were able to safely retrieve the snake after removing the truck's skid plate and identified that the snake was, in fact, a boa constrictor.
    — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Endurance wasn’t crushed all at once, but instead ground down into a twist of wood and metal over the course of several weeks, like a rabbit in the clutches of a boa constrictor.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
  • On June 5, a 5-foot-long boa constrictor was rescued from an Upper West Side backyard.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 19 June 2024
  • Two years later, an Ohio woman called 911, reporting a boa constrictor was wrapped around her waist and was holding onto her nose.
    — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 21 July 2022

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