How to Use snail in a Sentence

snail

1 of 2 noun
  • Not a cone snail, and not deadly.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Go out and rescue a snail from the ground.
    — Maria Reva september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The snails have to breathe somehow.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Prickly pears sprout; snails emerge from shells.
    — Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In outdoor ferns, slugs and snails can chew holes in fronds.
    — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 22 June 2026
  • And more books should have kittens and/or snails on them.
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
  • How her mind moved from two swans to a snail shell is beauty.
    — Victoria Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In our lives how many things are like the snail, never thought of?
    — Victoria Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The second-place snail in that race took about three times as long.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
  • And that its plot, too, features a last-of-its-kind snail?
    — Maria Reva september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The main thing to keep an eye out for with lettuce is slugs and snails.
    — Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Some of the snail bodies have been painted gold.
    — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This species of large sea snail is harmless to humans.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Racers place their snail at the bottom of a foot-long pole.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
  • The snail who reaches the top first is crowned the winner.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 9 May 2026
  • Nothing shall tear this stone and snail asunder.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
  • In each one, snails and hermit crabs help keep it free of algae.
    — Greg Allen, NPR, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Firefly larvae feed on slugs and snails.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 31 May 2026
  • Firefly larvae feed on slugs and snails.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 June 2026
  • But after years at a snail’s pace, the tide could be changing.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Slugs, snails, and roly polies abound after the wet winter.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • The way a snail’s conch just grows, mostly right but sometimes left.
    — Victoria Chang, The New York Review of Books, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Simple to use, just press the shell to get lotion from the snail's mouth.
    — Nora Colomer May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The game was crawling along at a snail’s pace with a rare boundary here and there.
    — Mohsin Kamal, New York Times, 25 June 2026
  • For this sale, three of its most popular snail mucin picks are marked down even more.
    — Buy Side Staff, wsj.com, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The rat then poops the worms out, and animals such as slugs and snails eat the poop.
    — Susanne Rust follow, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • And to have Jasmin send me photos of her pet snails.
    — Maria Reva september 3, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The reason why has to do with how the snail gets its nutrients.
    — Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • One of my prompts on the app detailed my phobia of snails in detail.
    — Isoke Atiba, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • An octopus brain is more like the brain of a snail than that of a human.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023

snail

2 of 2 verb
  • Cathy Jordan may die as this snails its way through the system.
    — Dara Kam, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 July 2018
  • The texture is exceptionally satisfying—its sticky, almost snail mucin-like feel sinks instantly into skin.
    — Deanna Pai, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The texture is exceptionally satisfying—its sticky, almost snail mucin-like feel sinks instantly into skin.
    — Kiana Murden, Vogue, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Payments for premiums still cannot be processed online - people have to snail-mail checks to a CGI processor in Nebraska.
    — Lynnley Browning, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2014
  • The investigators found that hungry caterpillars, which usually gorge on tomato leaves, had no appetite for them after the plants were exposed to snail slime and activated their chemical resistance.
    — Erica Tennenhouse, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2018

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