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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "boa" in a sentence

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    boa


    1. Monty Boa Constrictor simply would not have worked


    2. He screamed when the device attached like a boa constrictor


    3. middle of its stomach, much like a boa constrictors but the


    4. lifeless feeling that coiled around us both like a giant boa


    5. was a feather boa, but it seemed an inadequate defence against the ravages of a Scottish winter


    6. Twining round a pole in the middle was a feather boa


    7. He lm holtz liste ne d to his boa stings in a sile nce so gloom ily disa pproving tha t


    8. Brrfoo! Blew up all her skirts and her boa nearly smothered old Goodwin


    9. —I was tucking the rug under her and settling her boa all the time


    10. Her boa uncoils, slides, glides over her shoulder, back, arm, chair to the ground

    11. The man sometimes has a boa constrictor wrapped around his neck, though the snake is never acknowledged, by me or him


    12. In fact, he kept looking at me like I was wearing a boa constrictor on my head


    13. "Well, if that doesn't look like the cougar that ate the boa constrictor, head and tail


    14. We’ve heard, through the years, late in the night, the great boa constrictor, the terrible endless snake of concrete rushing upon us, nearly soundless, no men swearing or shouting or revving tractor and truck engines, but just a terrible oiled hiss, the sound of reptiles sidewinding the grass or sifting the sand, all by itself, no men guiding, no one riding its loops and folds, a destination to itself, mindless but drawn by body warmth, the heat of people


    15. And those great misfortunes which made us laugh! Thy cuff scorched, thy boa lost! And that dear portrait of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I was a beggar and thou wert charitable


    16. Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her ear


    17. Extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a boa


    18. Like a boa constrictor, her tremendous curiosity would sleep for months, and then, on awakening, it hungered with a most mighty and most devastating hunger


    19. I have always considered the Copper-head to be no other than the Cenchris mockeson of authors, and Boa contortrix of Linn


    20. Shaw's description of Boa contortrix seems to indicate this species

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    Synonyms for "boa"

    boa feather boa mantle stole neckerchief shawl muffler fur piece kerchief

    "boa" definitions

    a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur


    any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs