How to Use python in a Sentence

python

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  • The python was lying on the side of the road in the town of Medford on Long Island.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Seeing the python extend to its full length gave the group pause.
    — Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
  • The python, which has not been given a name, laid the eggs July 23.
    — CBS News, 11 Sep. 2020
  • This year’s prize for the longest snake went to Dustin Crum for a python that stretched just over 11 feet.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That’s the case for some of the Asian Vipers or American rattlesnakes, or pythons and boas.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The one that was not removed shows a live rabbit being fed to a python.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The resident told OnScene TV the snake was a 10-foot ball python.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Scientists think the python that snagged the opossum must have been about 16 feet long.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The snapshot shows all four snake catchers holding the lengthy python.
    — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The largest snake found in the house was a 14-foot Burmese python, according to officials.
    — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Senanayake said the patient lived near a lake that was also home to carpet pythons.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But Prairie Dog isn’t the only collared mammal that has faced a python.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The head of the 10-foot nonvenomous diamond python emerged through a space in a shelf above the spice jars in the Sydney store.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • But Burmese pythons may be the most infamous invaders of all.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Myself and Tina dragging a 10-foot python out of our camp and throwing it across the river.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 23 Feb. 2021
  • In October, a pair of hunters captured an 18-foot, 9-inch Burmese python that set a record.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The previous longest Burmese python, the group said, was 18 feet and 9 inches long.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 13 July 2023
  • The largest python captured so far in South Florida was more than 18 feet long.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Carpet pythons were at a lake area near where the woman lived, the article said.
    — Amanda Holpuch, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Carpet pythons are not venomous but do possess a nasty bite thanks to dozens of teeth.
    — Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In Australia, a 10-foot-long python was found perusing the spices in a grocery store.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The pythons are one of the world’s longest snake species, sometimes exceeding 20 feet in length, the agency said.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The video also features a python, a horse, dancers flipping into the air and a burning chair, all matching the tone of the tune.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 12 Jan. 2022
  • Swamp eels, pythons, land snails, iguanas, and… bunnies?
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 17 July 2023
  • What if one of those animals was an elephant or a python?
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 27 May 2022
  • Four people fought again for hours on Jan. 30 to control a 77-pound female python.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2023
  • The python was humanely killed that night, Waleri said.
    — Daniel Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 14 July 2023
  • Florida is turning to the dogs to help solve its Burmese python problem.
    — Ann W. Schmidt, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Their reptile bounty includes babies, which suggests that invasive pythons are now breeding in the wild.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 21 May 2024
  • There are lovely, moody shots of Chatwin the novelist, travel writer and adventurer, wandering through Haiti, posing with a python — and a priestess — at her shrine in Benin, and shot against the backdrop of a mountain range in Namibia.
    — Samantha Conti, WWD, 28 June 2024

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