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Sentence Examples Each occasion a large gull or carrion crow passed overhead, the buntings took all wing, providing a most impressive spectacle. This dinner guest then begins to crow loudly at the dinner table, until she is strictly reprimanded by Monsieur Maillard to behave properly. The crow preened its feathers and took wing again, gliding away into the trees. They cut past their rival by mere feet and she took one hand off the wheel long enough to doff her hat and wave it with a crow of triumph. When he pulled the trigger his bullet thumped into the log and the crow flew lazily away unscathed. A glistening black stuffed crow is perched on the volume's edge, its splayed wings and claws eerily delineated against the lucent white pages. With mercury soaring in Vijayawada, a crow takes to water to beat the heat. The only sound is the scratching of a crow and the sighing of wind through the trees. The side-blotched lizard, and the carrion crow are among the animals revealed by researchers to possess a social behavior. The green hills are a-quiver with babblers, bushchats, bulbuls, barbets, crow pheasants, and the laughing thrush of the Palni hills. Stainrigg, a baronial house in the heart of the Borders, has a facade of crow step gables, a pepper pot turret and an elaborate entrance porch. At dawn, just when one has forgotten about him for a minute and dozed off, a crow caws loudly. Somewhere a crow caws, and in the far distance those black birds endlessly circle a spot on the western edge of the world. In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing. She looked over to the window and saw a midnight crow sitting on the balcony, cawing arrogantly. The crow remained still until it suddenly beat its wings but soon settled again watching Ari closely. He was the most handsome and chivalrous knight in the kingdom and one day taught his white crow how to speak the language of humans. She takes revenge for her crow feet and cellulite by bossing around the vapid bimbettes whom her husband hornily humps but can't talk to. The lips are slightly parted and a cord made of knotted strips of raveled red cloth hangs to the floor, where the crow grasps it in its beak. No more would the swaggies need to walk as the crow flies as the Princes Highway was opened, linking Sydney to Adelaide via Melbourne. Show More Sentences Shrieks rent the air as another crow spiraled down to invade the feast, some carrion invisible from the roadside. Closing her eyes and trying to sleep, she suddenly heard the familiar caw of a crow from above in the tree. A caw sounded and she looked up to see a large crow sitting on a bright streetlamp. The crow intervened not to protect its fellow corvid but solely because a crow cannot resist the temptation to bully a small raptor. The doors opened and two aged citizens emerged, a withered old crow and a thin old duffer. You will be eating crow for following a leader who has no intention of following through with his promises. I guarantee that I'll be back winning shows again, and then all the doubters are going to have to eat crow for dinner. The source of the river was over 8km away as the crow flies, and we had come prepared for a long trip. Hah, that old crow could forbid me all she wants, but I won't give up my archery. Somehow this is all tied in to the treacherous mountain trails, where a mile as the crow flies can take twenty miles of switchbacks. A New Caledonian crow in captivity learned how to bend a piece of straight wire into a hook to probe for food. The distance is less than seven miles as the crow flies, but is 13 miles by water, because of the twists and turns of the river. I let out a mental crow of delight as I discover that I can control where I'm going. The second half was brimful of exciting action, even if the scoring returns were nothing to crow about. Ornithologists will know that the strangely-named Indian Tree Pie takes its name from a colourful Indian member of the crow family. Of course, they augured stuff by poking around in crow guts too, so that's how much they knew. At the end of the day, we intend moving only 20 miles away, as the crow flies. A lone crow flew through the sky, landed on a lamp post and looked over the street. By the time we reached Roman Road, only half a mile as the crow flies from our starting point, the bus was jam-packed full and sailing past the waiting queues. At other booths, the photographers allowed participants to reject their first photo in favor of a more flattering one, but the old crow and her minion hurried me off the set. Show More Sentences Perhaps you'll even crow when his shoelaces get caught in the escalator. It will be nice to see you eating crow in your midseason report. And if I go overboard, I eat crow and apologize and beg for mercy. The proposed site is eight-and-a-half kilometres from the airport as the crow flies, and it is first-class flat agricultural land with three rivers running through the site. But we're only about 45 miles, as the crow flies, away from New Orleans. The bell has tolled, the crow has cawed in ominous overtones, there's been a dark and stormy night, and now finally we know the results of the election. Apparently the crow pecks a small hole in the toad to get at the liver. And while she empties the black water out of the bucket to refill it for the next room, she can see a crow come to rest on the ledge of the window. The Chough is an elegant member of the crow family, a little smaller than a Rook and distinguished by a bright red, slightly decurved bill and red legs and feet. But just then a carrion crow swooped down and took one of the ducklings. Finally a rooster flew to the top and decided to crow around midnight. When the Berlin Wall fell, he did not crow but allowed democracy to take root on its own merits in the former Soviet republics. The jay is one of the most widespread members of the crow family, occupying woodland as diverse as the Siberian taiga and the rain-forests of Thailand. This unmistakeable member of the crow family was ever present on the Scrubs with at least 10 birds chacking away during the month, though 30 were counted on the 25th. We were constantly rewarded with stunning scenic views and the satisfaction of navigating challenging terrain with ease, but we didn't get very far, as the crow flies. The scimitar mouth pulled back in a mad crow of triumph, the face sweating with guilty pleasure. This crow skulked and cowered up to the buzzard, sometimes lying low to the ground, sometimes popping up into the air, always trying to stay behind the enemy. It's like having a crow caw constantly in your ear at noon every weekday, and then suddenly being told that it's going to be replaced with something else. She shifted her glance, and watched a crow peck at a dead sewer rat. Alison was painting a snowy owl, Migel a crow and Katrina a hummingbird. Show More Sentences The little metal rooster weathervane on top of the roof would dream about being real, and would think about how lovely it would be to crow to the sun. Holders were ordered to lower the ceiling height of their chicken coops as, apparently, cockerels cannot crow unless they can throw their heads back. The coach had every reason to crow after Saturday's hammering of Widnes Tigers at Trimpell and says the attitude of his team is making his job easy. By dawn, mysterious roosters would crow but never show themselves. And a third is that we all paused a second to look at the red glow over Baltimore, 35 miles away as the crow flies. The rest of us were sick of hearing her crow about her success. The crow family, the corvids, can be an ID challenge, because the four black corvids are quite similar. Ring-necked parakeets and Indian mynahs are common in Abu Dhabi while the Indian house crow population is seen to be increasing. Even discounting their penchant for histrionics, the Left parties ate crow like rarely before. I plan to explain how I ate crow on the Internet, and why it tasted so good. In his school's symbological system, the crow represented change, something new and good. He was a tall lean man with a voice like a rasping crow. Impeccably dressed and hatted with a dark Homburg. You could actually hear a crow in the distance when this happened. Ptarmigan, grouse, crow blackbirds, dove, ducks and other game fowl are consumed in the United States. A crow is a bird of the genus Corvus, or more broadly as a synonym for all of Corvus. He followed this idea and demonstrated his view of the order within the crow family. He must apologise, he saw that clearly enough, must eat crow, as he told himself. The day after the Time story appeared, the Pentagon ate crow and admitted the North Koreans had launched not a missile but a rocket carrying a satellite. Which, of he or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins to crow? Hearing the miner's footsteps, the baby would put up his arms and crow. Show More Sentences Yoga wear for guys from Prancing Leopard includes harem pants that give him plenty of room to practice crow while still providing privacy with snug hems at the knee. As someone who lives 30 miles away as the crow flies...from New York City, I could care less that New York City or New York State has a sense of jurisdiction. A Lapland bunting was a good find at Cemlyn, while more snow buntings were at Kinmel Bay and Bardsey, where a hooded crow and an early Arctic skua were seen. Jesum Crow, why's the statie so upset? We're only drinking tonics out here. Consequently, Jim Crow aided hooch to flow freehandedly in the Baptist Bottom. Here was my chance. I took the old man aside, and two or three glasses of Old Crow launched him into reminiscence. A hill fort occupies the summit of Arthur's Seat and the subsidiary hill, Crow Hill. In 1958 they met Leonard Baskin, who would later illustrate many of Hughes's books, including Crow. Jim Crow Laws, which were enacted in the 1870s, brought legal racial segregation against black Americans residing in the American South. She compares mass incarceration to Jim Crow laws, stating that both work as racial caste systems. And it was in Pontiac that I dug that Jim Crow man in person, a motherferyer that would cut your throat for looking. Why, consarn you, Anderson Crow, I didn't have any spare children to leave around on doorsteps. These groups, especially in the Jim Crow South were under great pressure to conform to segregation. The Crow Road, published in 1992, was adapted as a BBC television series. From 1969 to 1971, state legislators under Governor Mills Godwin rewrote the constitution, after goals such as the repeal of Jim Crow laws had been achieved. Examples from Classical Literature The Raven very closely resembles the carrion crow in colour, but may readily be distinguished by its much larger size. It is also the eagle-hawk and the crow which have given their names to the two phratries of the Ngarigo and the Wolgal. The food of the hooded crow is not known to differ from that of allied species, the bird being practically omnivorous. As the hooded crow is only a seasonable visitant, it is but little felt as a poacher. A hooded crow perched on the railing of the balcony and, apparently resenting his remarks, cawed defiantly at him. Greta, I told myself, you need a miltown before the crow makes wing through your kooky head. But the Boy, though in his heart troubled and surprised, kept an undiscouraged face, and advised the hunters not to crow too soon. Compared with the common crow, with which it is often confounded, the fish crow is of much smaller, more slender build. I also shot a crow that evening, but was in great dread that the natives would come and deprive me of the nardoo. In the same district the autumnal passage of the hooded crow is little if any less impressive. In the Visayan story Bathala makes the crow black by hurling an inkstand at it. Hale thought that the scientist looked like a huge, starved crow in his loose-fitting coat. There is a three-legged crow in the sun who always wants to get down and eat them. Take the nest of a crow from a margosa tree, and bury it at the cremation ground. Near relative to them are the turkey buzzard and carrion crow of our Southern States, besides some tropical species. This instrument is quilled with crow quill, the most common material used for plectra at that time. The crow is euryphagous and, as shown by this study, the diets of crows a few miles apart may differ. The fish crow is the smaller of the two, lives along the coast, and does not often go further north than Connecticut. This second crow was full of fire, and daring, and challenge, and percussion. That he may increase beyond the prolificness of the white-necked crow and cover the ground after the fashion of the binding grass. Show More Sentences He had seen Jake Hibbard, that carrion crow of the law, loafing about the corridors, and the sight had made him shiver. The carrion crow on the top of the gate is an example of his ingenuity in extricating himself from a difficulty. When suddenly surprised, its flight is more like that of a carrion crow when shot at in the air. The word courbina is Italian and means croaker, from the Latin, Corvus, crow. The three-legged crow in the sun is the counterpart of the three-legged ram-toad in the moon. She is not so infallible a markswoman, but that she might shoot at a crow and kill a pigeon. The crow had got too much of a start, they said, considering that the wind was in her favour. The larger birds are the wood-pigeon, moorhen, dabchick, and to these the carrion crow may now be added as a breeding species. Hicks consented to eat crow only after Mr. Ware had cursed and cajoled him into a better and more forgiving frame of mind. Then he of Clusium would flutter and say, how-do-you-do, in squeaky crow tones. The carrion crow still nests on the moor, although the eggs are taken every season. And Mrs. rusk sat down and laughed heartily, ending with a crow of derision. If anything should happen, the call will be three croaks of a crow. One day when she was pacing to and fro under the lime trees, a black crow hopped out of a rose-bush in front of her. She thought it was a crow but it turned out to be a goshawk and it was the first one of those that I had ever seen. The jackaroo is neither a crow nor a parrot nor any kind of quadruped. It is not so unlike the Court of Chancery but that we may pass from the one scene to the other, as the crow flies. With only hawks and owls for enemies, crow numbers can increase pestiferously. Large numbers of farmed pheasants inevitably attract predator species such as stoats, weasels, foxes and members of the crow family. The Hindu pays a ransom of a pice or two and the crow is released. Show More Sentences Teddy wrote both, and keeps yours to crow over me with because I wouldn't tell him my secret. Apeak in dead crow sightings in Halton occurred 5 weeks before the peak in human cases. When first hatched the koel has a black skin, the crow a pink one. One for the blackbird, One for the crow, One for the cutworm, Two to grow. North Westwardly from Indian Hill, about nine miles as the crow flies, is Macarger's Gulch. From Borkum to the Elbe, as the crow flies, is only seventy miles. He found a half-drowned young crow another time an' he brought it home, too, an' tamed it. A carrion crow flew to a rock between us and the water's edge. The fish crow is one of the most active enemies of our small birds. Tha' looked like a young plucked crow when tha' first came into this garden. There's even an operetta, conducted by the Manciple, in which Apollo brands his musical white crow with black feathers. I was now on a level with the crow colony, and could see into their nests. Or was he a glossy young buck of a crow on courting thoughts intent? Snagsby standing at his shop-door looking up at the clouds sees a crow who is out late skim westward over the slice of sky belonging to Cook's Court. Chicks of the great spotted cuckoo don't directly kill chicks of the carrion crows, so the crow parents have a chance of producing their own offspring. She had never seen a crow so close before and he made her a little nervous, but the next moment he spread his wings and flapped away across the garden. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of crow? Words that rhyme with crow What is the past tense of crow? What is the plural of crow? What is the adverb for crow? What is the adjective for crow? What is the noun for crow? Translations for crow Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words croutons crouton croute crout croustade Crouse Crow crowbar crowbarred crowbars crowberries crowberry 4-letter Words Starting With c cr cro