How to Use snapping turtle in a Sentence

snapping turtle

noun
  • There are beavers, muskrats and brown bats, along with snapping turtles and Easter milk snakes.
    — Rich Heileman, cleveland.com, 14 June 2019
  • Rambling along a river teeming with snapping turtles and walleyes.
    — Monitor Contributors, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Between mud, darkness, and snapping turtles, the world of the pond was at first one of anxiety for her.
    — Liam Archacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2023
  • And in the stomach of a largemouth bass, Herwig's team found a baby snapping turtle.
    — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • His age is unknown, but snapping turtles can live up to 70 years, per DWR.
    — Karri Peifer, Axios, 10 Sep. 2024
  • In the midst of the story is a snapping turtle that may be hundreds of years old, if age and time actually exist in this place.
    — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Lamb explained that the snapping turtle spends the warmer months in that pond before hibernating in a pond next to the police station.
    — Ian Lenahan, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Wildebeest, elk, lions, pronghorns, snapping turtles, baboons, wolves, and warthogs wait, oozing, for their turn in the lineup.
    — Jeff Wilson, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026
  • He is charged after allegedly feeding puppy to snapping turtle.
    — Katy Moeller, idahostatesman, 10 July 2018
  • Compared to the white tail and jowl meat, the legs of alligators and snapping turtles both are much darker, fattier, and tougher.
    — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Turtles larger than 12 inches, such as snapping turtles, are more prone to bite, Badje said.
    — Marisa Peryer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2019
  • Occasionally, a beady-eyed muskrat surfaces on the lake, or a snapping turtle lazily sinks deeper.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Another group showed that regular old toilet plungers work great for taking the snap out of snapping turtles—which is no small miracle.
    — Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017
  • For Sedaris a snapping turtle with a partly missing foot and a tumor on its head becomes an unlikely leitmotif.
    — Alan Cumming, New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • In further dim news for the snapping turtle, geoengineers have not yet found a way to replicate a wetland through artificial structures.
    — Michelle Mastro, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 July 2024
  • An Idaho junior high teacher could face up to six months in jail for allegedly feeding a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students.
    — Emma Sarran Webster, Teen Vogue, 3 June 2018
  • The family also reminisced about a pet snapping turtle, who had once reappeared in their garden almost a year after running away.
    — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Namely, an orange snapping turtle inspired by our current president.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Fatty was coincidentally discussing how snapping turtles bite when the one in his hand lunged with amazing speed and clamped down on his index finger.
    — Mark Price, Orlando Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The volunteer rescue treats turtles as big as 14-inch snapping turtles and as small as silver dollar-sized eastern box turtles.
    — Scottie Andrew and Nadeem Muaddi, CNN, 29 June 2019
  • And although Virginia hasn’t ever maintained records for giant snapping turtles, Marshall still wanted someone with the state to come look at it.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2024
  • An alligator and a dozen snapping turtles were seized and turned over to the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
    — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2023
  • While probably the best option if unable to stop or pass in another lane, snapping turtles cannot retract into its shell, and often will defend themselves by rearing up to snap.
    — Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 19 June 2024
  • The camp begins in a swimming pool—still concrete—and then moves on to a swamp, with snapping turtles and slow-moving water, before concluding with some real rapids on a local river.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • In mid-November, less than two months after his surgeries, the Center for Wildlife team placed the snapping turtle in water for the first time since it was hit.
    — Ian Lenahan, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Her book also tells the story of a southern Florida childhood – of homemade bike ramps and treehouses, ponds with snapping turtles and a goat named Cordelius.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The case of an Idaho science teacher allegedly feeding a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students at his school is creating an uproar on social media.
    — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2018
  • The swimmers described the underwater beauty such as seeing a snapping turtle the size of a hula hoop, and the canoeists talked about the above-water beauty, such as bald eagles and wolves howling.
    — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 27 July 2019
  • In March, a junior high biology teacher in Idaho reportedly fed a puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students.
    — CBS News, 16 May 2018
  • The same bill also prohibits the commercial sale of Connecticut snapping turtles, which experts say could be threatened by commercial harvesting for sale as food.
    — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 19 Mar. 2018

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