How to Use anaconda in a Sentence

anaconda

noun
  • But the craziest thing was this giant anaconda that our wildlife guys caught.
    — Clay Skipper, GQ, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The reticulated python is longer in length than a green anaconda.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The scientists still have many questions about why the dolphins held the anaconda.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 May 2022
  • Think catfish bigger than humans, caimans, fish that can jump out of the water to eat bugs, and, of course, anacondas.
    — Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 21 Oct. 2025
  • At the time, the guides were astonished by the anaconda's behavior.
    — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2017
  • That’s the case for anacondas, for instance, who are native to warm, tropical climates.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • This team is more like an anaconda, brutally effective at close quarters.
    — oregonlive, 12 Oct. 2019
  • New photos show largest anaconda ever recorded What happens if you get stung by a blue dragon?
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The project starts to unravel when life imitates art and a real anaconda begins hunting them down.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Life imitates art when a giant anaconda appears to terrorize the film set.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 21 Nov. 2025
  • But chaos erupts when the anaconda escapes mid-filming, forcing the team deep into the jungle in search of another.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The project starts to unravel when life imitates art and a real anaconda begins hunting them down.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 23 Dec. 2025
  • Our commissioners just took a really strong stance on the yellow anaconda.
    — David Fleshler, sun-sentinel.com, 18 July 2019
  • What the Taiwan call an anaconda strategy.
    — CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • Even the largest snakes, like pythons and anacondas, primarily feed on rodents, birds and other small to medium-sized mammals.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
  • But when an actual giant anaconda emerges, everything changes.
    — Keith Langston, PEOPLE, 28 Dec. 2025
  • At this point, anything less than an anaconda pulling you under on a future housewives trip to the Amazon is going to feel like a letdown.
    — Peter Larsen, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2025
  • On Exile, Brendan and I saw a full contingent of crew members wrestling with an anaconda.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Pereira will play a character called The Butcher, and bring his set of skills to the role — including anaconda chokes and roundhouse kicks.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Its animal residents include the heaviest snake in the world, a massive green anaconda, and a jaguar named Tesoro.
    — Marcy De Luna, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Pereira will play a character called The Butcher, and bring his set of skills – including anaconda chokes and roundhouse kicks – to his meaty role.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Critics of the stunt argue that a human’s shoulder width is too wide to fit the anaconda’s body, which could cause the animal physical and emotional pain.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2014
  • Toucans observed in the care of tour operators were found with abscesses on their feet, while anacondas were found injured and dehydrated.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Dangerous reptiles like cobras, mambas, vipers, anacondas and rattlesnakes are all banned from private ownership.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The meandering rivers have strong currents and teem with predators, including piranhas and anacondas.
    — Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
  • But today there are around 4,000 species of snakes, ranging in size from green anacondas that weigh more than adult gorillas to thread snakes that are lighter than a paperclip.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 23 Feb. 2024
  • When the sun goes down, we were told, the Brazilian wandering spiders, bullet ants, poison dart frogs, snakes, giant centipedes, jaguars, anacondas and black caimans come out.
    — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Katz keeps the majority of the stage looking sooty with pinpricks of light illuminating each actor, as if the action takes place in the belly of a coal-burning anaconda.
    — Vulture, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Rojas warned us about anticipating a parade of jaguars, anacondas, flowering jungles, and howler monkeys.
    — Marcia Desanctis, Travel + Leisure, 19 June 2024
  • Houston rapper Paul Wall had a custom Nolan Ryan replica made that features anaconda skin on the letters and logo.
    — USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2017

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