How to Use fang in a Sentence

fang

noun
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  • The beast stood 15 feet tall and stretched 20 feet from front fangs to the tip of its tail.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
  • Sasha feels her fangs break through her gums and flees.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 16 Sep. 2023
  • But mimicry might be the key to its survival, even without the fangs.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 21 Oct. 2019
  • And the tusks looked like fangs, perfect for a monster.
    — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The next night, the creature sinks its fangs under her skin.
    — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Oladipo smiles a charming smile, but his fangs are about to come out.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 29 Apr. 2018
  • As always, the show’s fiery host will have her comedic fangs bared. 10:30 p.m., TBS.
    — Chuck Barney, The Mercury News, 8 Jan. 2017
  • At their wildest, the girls fuse into a wolf pack, donning fangs and snarling at the moon.
    — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The fangs of flames devoured houses just a few blocks from her.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Some people have fangs and like to bite other people—that’s the way of the world.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • This bill is a tax cut in sheep's clothing, and the sheep's clothing doesn't even fit very well over the fangs.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Poor Sasha sports feeble fangs and doesn’t have the stomach to feed on the hot-blooded.
    — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The creature, which had fangs and eight legs, lived some 100 million years ago.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Sometimes the cats even turned their fangs on each other.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2023
  • Instead, the schools know that he is got blood dripping from his fangs here.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The tarantula’s fangs are nearly half an inch long, about a sixth the size of its body.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The tarantula's fangs are nearly half an inch long, about a sixth the size of its body.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • While many spiders are venomous, most do not have strong or long enough fangs to pierce the skin.
    — Amanda Gardner, Health, 27 May 2024
  • Claws and fangs fill my sight, and every instinct screams kill.
    — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 July 2019
  • Icy outcroppings rose like fangs out of a pink-rimmed sky.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
  • The tiger lunged at the smaller feline, and when Yates came between them, he was sliced by Ming’s fangs.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 7 Oct. 2019
  • In Africa and Asia, avoid ivory products, and anything with rhino horn, and tiger fangs and claws.
    — Diane Daniel, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Its jaws swing open; the fangs, each an inch of needle-sharp, hollow bone, unhinge from the roof of its mouth.
    — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 20 June 2018
  • But perhaps most concerning of all, the NL West has fangs.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 30 May 2017
  • The main lesson: If Google is a data vampire, Chrome is its fangs.
    — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 27 June 2019
  • There was a sharp pain in his left hand as the fangs penetrated just below the thumb.
    — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • In hollow fangs, the venom gland runs inside the fang as though running through a tube.
    — Charlotte Hu, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2018
  • When the kingsnake refused to let go, Rothacker was forced to use his fingernail to pry the fangs loose and pull the snake from its own mouth.
    — Fox News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • These are some hot, elegant gay bloodsuckers who speak French and flash brilliant smiles but aren’t afraid to kill to survive — kinda like Fire Island with fangs.
    — Erik Piepenburg, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • And, from watching a snake dig its fangs into his arm ― and watching her old friend treat it like something less than a mosquito bite, waiting for the snake to disengage in its own sweet time.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 16 Jan. 2024

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