How to Use snake pit in a Sentence

snake pit

noun
  • The liberal chat room turned sour—my God, what a snake pit that must have been.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • At its worst, the comment section could be a bit of an echo chamber nestled inside a snake pit.
    — Erin Gloria Ryan, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Mayes essays a preacher who is falling off the edge into, well, a snake pit of his own design.
    — al, 1 Mar. 2021
  • So instead, Edward decided to throw his son into the snake pit and hope for the best.
    — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 21 June 2022
  • Get used to these stories because, in my experience, state houses are real snake pits in this regard.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • That’s still too many days away, but walking into the snake pit of Ohio Stadium will be here before anyone knows it.
    — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
  • By imagining a snake pit of twisting, interlocking, hollow metal tubes.
    — Erica Huang, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Powell, blessed with more intelligence and common sense than ego, was too smart to get involved in the snake pit of presidential politics.
    — J.d. Crowe | [email protected], al, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Associating such pleasures and recollections with the era’s snake pit of gangsterism is meant to dispel nostalgia.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2019
  • This involved taking matter from a smallpox patient’s pustule—a snake pit of live virus—and applying it to the pricked skin of an uninfected person, then covering the spot with a linen rag.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Trustees, worried about mounting deficits, hired Weiss to right the ship both financially and management-wise since, under Campbell, a bit of a snake pit had developed.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Breslin Center channeled all of its frustration and bitterness and sadness of one of the longest months in school history into a snake pit environment that long has been missing.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 31 Jan. 2018
  • But for now, the ecological splendor of Florida’s humongous snake pit is left literally in the hands of the individual brave women and men who try to haul them down one snake a time.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
  • But at home, his Garfield is a gentle, loving husband, father and farmer — an unlikely person to rise to the top in the snake pit of national government in the 1880s.
    — David Bianculli, NPR, 10 Nov. 2025
  • According to Manitoba's government website, the snake pits are part of a wildlife management area, called the Narcisse Snake Dens, that is open to the public.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • Inside the museum, visitors can climb into a snake pit, tour a collection of global oddities and attend expert presentations in the building's historic courtroom, per the event website.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Inside the museum, visitors can climb into a snake pit, tour a collection of global oddities and attend expert presentations in the building's historic courtroom, per the event website.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • As Mao drove Chiang and his forces to Taiwan and unified the mainland under Communist tyranny, his good name back home fell into a snake pit of paranoiac partisanship.
    — James D. Hornfischer, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • If the government throws an individual into a snake pit, and the individual is not harmed by the snakes, but hurts himself escaping the pit, the government has still placed the individual in danger that has caused the individual harm.
    — Hannah Leone, Aurora Beacon-News, 2 Mar. 2018
  • But as television has become more varied and ambitious across the streaming era, Curb has remained reliable in its formula, cataloguing the social improprieties and conversational snake pits that make up modern life.
    — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
  • By mimicking the biological blueprint of snake pit organs and combining it with semiconductor manufacturing, the researchers have opened a path toward truly accessible thermal vision.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Perks for the in-the-flesh audience include being able to take in all of Stephanie Osin Cohen’s beautiful stage picture, a Boschian profusion of industrial lights and set pieces and rolling cameras tied together by a snake pit of cables.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 15 June 2022
  • With the Broncos and Jets set to meet Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur, the second of three London games on this season’s schedule, there should be at least a tiny bit of trepidation that someone will slip into the snake pit and become the latest NFL personality to make a forgettable Brexit.
    — Michael Silver, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025

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