Cobra and cottonmouth, e.g

Usage examples of snakes.

The snakes are hanging about the village, right under your bloody noses and you haven't twigged it yet.

The last thing they wanted was a bloody driver refusing to take the snakes up north.

A snap of cold weather would in all probability finish off the reptiles but according to the Met Office that was unlikely to happen in the near future, and before the snakes were found a number of humans might die.

A sudden thunderstorm had been responsible for a motorway pile-up (no, the stupid bloody drivers were to blame for that, but right now that wasn't important), and as a result a vanload of poisonous snakes had crashed and the reptiles were on the loose.

There might be other victims but there had been fifteen mutilated corpses, three as yet unidentified, out of that carnage and they could not be sure, might never be, if the snakes had got any of them.

Each and every one of those snakes was a cunning and deadly killer, a master of camouflage, an expert in ambush.

Horrible things snakes, whatever was John thinking about when he elected to study them at university?

They were not hunting a flock of snakes, rather six very different species.

And kids like this got degrees for studying bloody snakes, he reflected.

Or else Cynthia, his blonde attractive second wife, had persuaded him to take her to a hotel well away from Stainforth until the snakes had all been shot.

Cowering indoors, doubtless, listening in to every radio and TV bulletin to find out if the hunters had accounted for any of the snakes yet.

And he couldn't even hate the escaped snakes for it because it was nothing to do with them, would have happened anyway.

You take it from me, Babs, there ain't no snakes in the village, if there are any they're up on the moors.

She mentioned something about they might be going to stay with relatives until the snakes were all caught.

Jesus Christ, fancy Eversham being stupid enough to go out after the snakes in the barley.