Snail in sentence

90 examples of Snail in a sentence

I'd like to start, if I may, with the story of the Paisley snail.

She drank some of the ice cream float, but as the remaining ginger beer was poured into her tumbler, a decomposed snail floated to the surface of her glass.

Now please hang on to that Paisley snail story, because it's an important principle.

Since the Paisley snail, and especially over the past decade or so, a great deal of thinking has been developed around the notion of a duty of care as it relates to a number of aspects of civil society.

Especially common were trematodes, tiny worms that specialize in castrating their hosts like this unfortunate snail.

A snail's tongue.

This is the Everglade snail kite.

Well, it's because they eat one source of food, an apple snail, about the size of a ping-pong ball, an aquatic gastropod.

So as we started damming up the Everglades, as we started diking Lake Okeechobee and draining the wetlands, we lost the habitat for the snail.

And so, I wanted a photo that would not only communicate this relationship between wetland, snail and bird, but I also wanted a photo that would communicate how incredible this relationship was, and how very important it is that they've come to depend on each other, this healthy wetland and this bird.

But, even if we could all just float around a few feet above the ground and only moving at a snail's pace, I'm telling you, it's still a cool ability that I'd want, wouldn't you?

But it turns out that asymmetry is pretty important, too, and more common than you might think, from crabs with one giant pincer claw to snail species whose shells' always coil in the same direction.

And I think this is supposed to be a snail.

Victory is beating the snail.

But it's a lightning bolt compared to the snail's pace of language acquisition.

A rabbit attempts to play a church organ, while a knight fights a giant snail and a naked man blows a trumpet with his rear end.

Today, no one can say for sure what the common motif of a knight fighting a snail means— or why the knight so often appears to be losing.

The snail might be a symbol of the inevitability of death, which defeats even the strongest knights.

And in hospitals all around the world, a new protocol is being developed to use a toxin from a marine snail for anesthetics.

At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms; And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.

And so this guy gets the snail all set up and gives it a good whack.

And a few smashes later, the snail is broken open, and he's got a good dinner.

And that thing's going to swing around and smash the snail.

And the snail's wired to a stick, so he's a little bit easier to set up the shot.

I hope there aren't any snail rights activists around here.

So this is a potent force in fluid systems, and just to sort of take it one step further, I'm going to show you the mantis shrimp approaching the snail.

You can see it coming in, and an incredible flash of light, and all this cavitation spreading over the surface of the snail.

And they might actually be making use of fluid dynamics as a second force for breaking the snail.

These are egg cases laid by a snail off the coast of Chile, and this is how many eggs they lay on the bottom.

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