How to Use garter snake in a Sentence

garter snake

noun
  • That makes sense because the frogs are one of the garter snake’s favorite snacks.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The crushed garter snake is scrawled on the tarmac in an ampersand.
    — Rosanna Warren, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Staring at the wall, Hall soon noticed more garter snakes and screamed.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • Common garter snakes, for example, birth live young, while pythons lay eggs and guard them.
    — National Geographic, 16 Jan. 2016
  • And there’s the children’s pet garter snake, which had somehow gotten loose a year before.
    — Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Even at a friend's pool party, when one of the kids found a garter snake, the initial freak-out turned to friendliness.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Ahumada’s alpine garter snakes have been found in two mountain ranges in Jalisco, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
  • Hinton held up a black-and-yellow garter snake, perhaps a metre long, twisting round and round like a spring.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The movements no longer those of a minnow but rather of a garter snake in grass, with that edge of hiddenness and surprise.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • For humans, a bite from a garter snake might cause mild irritation but is not dangerous.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Twenty feet below, a dead garter snake lie bloated in a mud bath, attracting flies in a macabre welcome.
    — Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
  • Many garter snakes have babies in the summer, so Hall is anxious the problem will worsen.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
  • The garter snake's bright blue, orange and black markings are considered among the most beautiful in the world.
    — Erica Davies, CBS News, 4 Sep. 2021
  • Amphibians such as frogs and toads thrive in the moisture-rich soil, while reptiles like garter snakes patrol the forest floor.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
  • For example, the eastern garter snake births a litter of 10 to 40 snakes.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Someone tried sealing the intersection between the walkway and the wall with a garter snake.
    — Reuben Saltzman, Star Tribune, 27 Oct. 2020
  • Every male in the crowd competes to align their tails with the lone female red-sided garter snake for a chance at copulation.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • However, eastern garter snakes and eastern rat snakes are both native to Virginia.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Aug. 2024
  • In September, the garter snakes begin to return to the dens and stay above ground until the weather gets too cool for them.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • Over time, the newts have become more poisonous, and the garter snakes have gotten even better at tolerating the poisons.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The town is home to the world's largest snake pits, where tens of thousands of non-venomous red-sided garter snakes emerge each spring to wriggle over one another.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • And then, in a flash of inspiration, Bushman’s keeper sent for a harmless 2-foot garter snake.
    — Nara Schoenberg, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2019
  • For seven years, researchers visited dozens of sites across Mexico to survey garter snakes.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 July 2024
  • Not all garter snakes develop the tolerance, and researchers have found it’s based on location and exposure to the newts.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2023
  • While some species hang out solo, others, such as garter snakes, may gather in a communal area, called a hibernaculum.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Responding to a call about a snake that became tangled in garden mesh netting, an officer removed the garter snake and released it to the wild.
    — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The scientists suggest the garter snakes recognized themselves and were intrigued by the unexpected change in their smell.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The common garter snake is most populous in Wisconsin, the DNR notes.
    — Christopher Kuhagen, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2023
  • Only a few thousand San Francisco garter snakes are estimated to remain in the wild.
    — Pepper St. Clair, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The researchers tested 18 African ball pythons, a solitary snake species, and 36 eastern garter snakes, which are known to be more social.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024

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