How to Use pit viper in a Sentence

pit viper

noun
  • This is what the venom of the Russell’s pit viper does to blood.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2012
  • The antivenom is the same for any pit viper bite, Smith said.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Everybody knows about the fer-de-lance, which is the deadly pit viper.
    — Jerry Beilinson, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2013
  • On top of that, many snakes, including pit vipers, have infrared vision.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Clamp and Andrews said your response should be the same no matter which type of pit viper bites you.
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 24 July 2022
  • The copperhead is a pit viper, or crotalid.
    — Eva Flowe june 1, Charlotte Observer, 1 June 2026
  • Male and female Yadong green pit vipers vary in coloring, researchers said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Yadong green pit vipers live in forests at elevations of about 6,000 feet, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The venom of the Brazilian pit viper, which causes a sudden drop in blood pressure in its prey.
    — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Pet parents want Indonesian pit vipers, even though the reptiles are venomous.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Only a few other animals, such as vampire bats and pit vipers, are known to have this ability.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2020
  • Copperheads are crotalids, or pit vipers.
    — Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026
  • The snakes are similar to other forest-dwelling pit vipers, including in the shape of the male genitalia.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Snake-lovers celebrated the inclusion of the lime-green Mangshan pit viper.
    — The Economist, 27 Feb. 2021
  • Other pit vipers include rattlesnakes and cottonmouths.
    — Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026
  • The owner also explained that the city removed two other snakes from his residence, including a pit viper.
    — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 5 Aug. 2021
  • The other two species, also part of the pit viper family, are the timber rattlesnake and eastern massasauga.
    — Fox News, 19 June 2019
  • The pit vipers in the genus Trimeresurus are venomous, and found throughout East and Southeast Asia.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 21 Apr. 2020
  • The new species, compared to other pit vipers, has slightly smaller males while females are a bit bigger than others, according to the study.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Alligators, Chinese bamboo pit vipers, tomatillos, frogs with sling shots.
    — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
  • Trails had to be cut from the dense understory with machetes, pit vipers lurked everywhere and nasty spines that grow on many plants could easily puncture boots and skin.
    — Gabriel Popkin, Smithsonian, 3 May 2017
  • Andueza was heading out for a slog through a swamp where pit vipers patrol the undergrowth and carnivorous caimans, hidden in dark pools, eye passersby.
    — Daniel Grossman, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Clamp, Andrews and other experts say do not apply a tourniquet to a pit viper bite (which is something Vuncannon did).
    — Forrest Brown, CNN, 24 July 2022
  • This behavior might stem from the presence of several nearby predators, including larger geckos and pit vipers, the study said.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024
  • The duo comes face-to-face with a mysterious pit viper, Gary De’Snake (voiced by Ke Huy Quan).
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Avoid like a pit viper any mushy ones, and make sure the papery husk looks at least somewhat fresh and greenish, not all brown and wrinkly like my Uncle Sid before the face-lift.
    — James P. Dewan, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2019
  • Snake-mimic caterpillar The larvae of hawk moths ward off predators by impersonating deadly pit vipers.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
  • In China, a growing number of people are purchasing venomous Indonesian pit vipers as pets.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Except for the very gory part, the world's largest roundup somewhat resembles a Texas county fair with pit vipers instead of livestock, and snake-handlers replacing ranch kids.
    — John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Captopril, the first, was created in the 1970s from the venom of a Brazilian jararaca pit viper to treat high blood pressure.
    — New York Times, 3 May 2022

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