How to Use viper in a Sentence

viper

noun
  • The poison of vipers is on their lips—and yet stop.
    — Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • The elapid snakes in their studies bit their victims as quickly as the vipers.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • At least one of the snakes that became loose was a small, highly venomous viper.
    — Charna Flam, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
  • Now, young people are buying venomous pet vipers.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Hudson was at viper or in the slot and the defensive backs covered.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Charlie's Angels pounces out of the long grass with a viper's speed and a tiger's strength.
    — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Hudson spent last spring and offseason getting a crash course in how to play viper.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 9 May 2018
  • Asghari spent his youth catching vipers in the mountains by his home in Tehran.
    — Jack Brook, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • On one occasion, a blunt-nosed viper misjudged the distance to its prey.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But the viper was found in the bedroom of their home's second floor after the first attempt.
    — NBC News, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Later, we are shown ominous faces buried and staring out from beneath a pit of black vipers.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • The snake involved is an African bush viper, also known as Atheris squamigera.
    — Winston Gieseke, USA TODAY, 15 Apr. 2021
  • In this image, a female viper, Atheris squamigera, reveals its fangs.
    — Discover Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
  • When focusing on the vipers’ fangs, the team watched their needle-like teeth sink into the fake prey.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But mistaking a viper for a tree root meant elimination from the gene pool.
    — Jeffrey A. Lockwood, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2013
  • This viper hunts by hiding in rocky crevices, revealing only its tail above the surface.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The vipers closed their jaws to inject the venom only when their fangs were comfortably in place.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Like a viper, Sudimack’s arm shot forward and bashed the Dogman in his nose.
    — Michael Deagler, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
  • They have been seen hunting lizards and are able to mate with other viper species to produce hybrid offspring.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 Feb. 2024
  • One of its many predators is the sidewinder rattlesnake, a two-foot long viper weighing in at a little over seven ounces.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Venom from snakes in the viper family rips up tissues, causing victims to bleed to death.
    — Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 2 May 2025
  • The viper is a blend between a linebacker and safety, and plays a role in seemingly every facet of the game.
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 23 June 2018
  • And in general, most venomous viper snakes have tens to hundreds of toxic proteins.
    — Kate Baggaley, Popular Science, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Jordan Glasgow has taken snaps at viper, so has Brad Hawkins.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2018
  • Some Folsom Lake boaters got a rude surprise last year when a viper crept onto their vessel.
    — Benjy Egel, sacbee, 9 May 2018
  • At Michigan the viper is always on the field; at Ohio State, the bullet will not be.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland.com, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The extremely venomous mountain fer-de-lance viper has large fangs and heat-sensing pits on its head to help detect prey.
    — Aaliyah Harris, CNN, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Around 1932, Erdős asked, in essence, what if the precipice and pit of vipers are three paces away instead of two?
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
  • There's more to playing viper in Brown's system than rushing the quarterback.
    — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 3 July 2019
  • Imagine that you are imprisoned in a tunnel that opens out onto a precipice two paces to your left, and a pit of vipers two paces to your right.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015

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