snail
nounDefinition of snail
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snail
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Synonyms & Antonyms for snail
Synonyms: Noun
crawler, dallier, dawdler, dragger, laggard, lagger, lingerer, loiterer, plodder, slowpoke, straggler
Synonyms: Verb
crawl, creak (along), creep, drag, inch, limp, nose, ooze, plod, poke, slouch
Antonyms: Noun
Antonyms: Verb
fly, race, speed, whiz (or whizz), zip
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Examples of snail in a Sentence
Noun
go and tell the snails in the back to hurry upVerb
the highway construction work created a bottleneck that had cars snailing for the next five milesRecent Examples on the Web: Noun
Working Dogs for Conservation has trained dogs to find spotted knapweed in Montana, Chinese bush clover in Iowa, yellow star thistle in Colorado, rosy wolf snails in Hawaii and brown tree snakes in Guam. — Washington Post, "Wags and weeds: Invasive plants meet match in detection dogs," 24 Aug. 2019 Jon Sarriugarte, a blacksmith who lives across the street and built Schaaf’s fire-breathing snail, fears that the building will become another Ghost Ship. — Sarah Ravani, SFChronicle.com, "Oakland shuttered artist warehouses after Ghost Ship. Cannabis may take the rest," 11 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'snail.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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