How to Use fang in a Sentence

fang

noun
  • Like many real-life drag names, those puns have fangs.)
    — Brendan Kiley, The Seattle Times, 2017-06-22
  • Oladipo smiles a charming smile, but his fangs are about to come out.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 2018-04-29
  • Sometimes the cats even turned their fangs on each other.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2023-06-29
  • Icy outcroppings rose like fangs out of a pink-rimmed sky.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 2019-06-06
  • And the tusks looked like fangs, perfect for a monster.
    — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 2017-08-08
  • The next night, the creature sinks its fangs under her skin.
    — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 2017-06-04
  • Claws and fangs fill my sight, and every instinct screams kill.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 2019-07-17
  • But mimicry might be the key to its survival, even without the fangs.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 2019-10-21
  • Instead, the schools know that he is got blood dripping from his fangs here.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 2023-08-11
  • At their wildest, the girls fuse into a wolf pack, donning fangs and snarling at the moon.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 2019-12-17
  • While many spiders are venomous, most do not have strong or long enough fangs to pierce the skin.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 2024-05-27
  • The tarantula’s fangs are nearly half an inch long, about a sixth the size of its body.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 2018-03-12
  • The tarantula's fangs are nearly half an inch long, about a sixth the size of its body.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 2018-03-12
  • The beast stood 15 feet tall and stretched 20 feet from front fangs to the tip of its tail.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 2019-06-18
  • This bill is a tax cut in sheep's clothing, and the sheep's clothing doesn't even fit very well over the fangs.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2017-03-13
  • There was a sharp pain in his left hand as the fangs penetrated just below the thumb.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 2024-05-29
  • Bill Skarsgard has the cape, the fangs and the scary manicure.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2024-12-02
  • In hollow fangs, the venom gland runs inside the fang as though running through a tube.
    — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 2018-09-16
  • The creature, which had fangs and eight legs, lived some 100 million years ago.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2018-02-05
  • Its jaws swing open; the fangs, each an inch of needle-sharp, hollow bone, unhinge from the roof of its mouth.
    — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 2018-06-20
  • But perhaps most concerning of all, the NL West has fangs.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 2017-05-30
  • The tiger lunged at the smaller feline, and when Yates came between them, he was sliced by Ming’s fangs.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 2019-10-07
  • As always, the show’s fiery host will have her comedic fangs bared. 10:30 p.m., TBS.
    — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 2017-01-08
  • Nike has been a supporter of Fang since 2023, providing footwear support for her runway shows.
    — Tianwei Zhang, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The company's name was inspired by the founder's grandmother, who married a pineapple farmer and developed a recipe for turning overripe pineapples into jam, according to Yi Fang's website.
    — Reia Li, AZCentral.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Benjamin Fang-Estrada, a spokesman for Speaker Adams (D-Queens), wouldn’t discuss the internal conversations on the matter.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Fang owned Wonderful Massage in Albuquerque, and she was found dead there in 2022 after a robbery, according to prosecutors.
    — Sara Schilling, Sacbee.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The 4-year-old boy who died last week after being struck by a vehicle in downtown Burlingame has been identified as Ayden Fang of Burlingame, according to the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office.
    — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The ensemble is rounded out by Chung Hsin-ling, Caitlin Fang, Lin Ting-yi, Liu Chu-ping, Vivi Chen, Rexen Cheng and Patrick Nattawat Finkler.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Aug. 2025
  • What tips Doc off is a missing ex-lover, something about a Golden Fang, vanishing Black communities, and the sudden presence of heroine in the hippie diet where previously there was only peace, pot, and LSD, as well as the sense that the world was composed of flimsy construction.
    — Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025

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