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Sentence Examples In the nest a newborn birdling stands awkwardly with its beak open wide, straining in the throes of infancy. Its head bore two glowing, red, pupilless eyes, a hawkish beak and rows of gray, razor-sharp teeth. Aggressively, it thrusts its wings back and its head forward, beak jabbing. Wingbeat frequency was determined by counting wingbeats from the mid point of the downstroke when the wingtip passed below the beak. The bill of a platypus is soft, flexible, and leathery, unlike a bird's beak. If I ever find myself up in front of the beak I'd like this guy to defend me. That's when a kraken attacked the boat, trying to cut it in half with its razor sharp beak. Presumably you would have to be hauled before the beak and convicted of something before your licence was revoked. In order to help out I moved from the fines court to the Magistrates Court next door and went up before the beak, or beakess on this occasion. He is up before the ERC beak tomorrow and, if found guilty, is likely to be suspended for at least a month. He lives under Newham Council's jurisdiction, so credit to the council for taking Thames Water to task and getting them before the beak. The corvus crashed downward, its beak driving into the other ship's deck, whereupon Roman infantry dashed across. The Eagle then hit a docked hydrofoil, cracking the beak of its wooden figurehead. The designs on Bronze Age metalwork and rock carvings show boats with a beak at the prow. A jutting beak of a nose, sharp chin and deep-set eyes gave him the appearance of a living skull. Heavy brows converge into a huge beak of a nose which hovers over thick lips smothered by a huge moustache. Wolfen felt the man would stick out in a crowd like a sore thumb, with his long beak of a nose. Yesterday, on the Edgware Road, I saw an elderly man with an impressive beak of a nose. His nose is still the defiant beak it was when I first met him, when we were both thirteen and bullied at a new and ghastly school. Just above the squid's eyes is a hard ball, called the beak, which creates a slight bulge. Show More Sentences This is enough for Susanna, and she raises her hand gently to halt the turtle and avoid any possible clash between beak and mask. Using its beak, the bird reached for a bud and gave it a quick twist, which released the four petals. By rapidly opening and closing its beak a bird can alter the damping characteristics of the vocal tract. Samshuddin says he watches out for the shape of a bird's tail, beak, nostrils and eyes, all of which have a bearing on singing quality. It is typing this message with its beak and watching me with an eye that makes beadiness an understatement of the highest order. The stormy grey glass wings of a tiny seabird stretched over my palm as the little beak stayed frozen in a silent cry. On her face is a domino mask decorated to look like a bird's face and beak. The martlet in French heraldry is called the merlette, represented by a swallow, depicted without legs, and later usually. without a beak. It has powerful arms and tentacles, excellent underwater vision, and a razor-sharp beak that easily tears through the flesh of its prey. The sacred ibis is the most common and usually has a black and white neck and beak. It would just sit there, ruffle its clipped wing feathers and continue its neurotic seed shovelling and beak swinging. It also has a tiny beak with a large gape, surrounded by stiff feathers called rictal bristles, which help the bird catch its aerial prey. Maybe the weirdest looking bird was the Groove-billed Ani, because of his thick, curved and grooved beak. It can be recognised by its distinctive yellow markings around the beak and bells on its leg. It's not so romantic when one of the aggressive blighters thinks you're trying to attack it and ends up breaking your fingers in its beak, is it? This will include using an abrasive material in the food troughs, which will wear down the sharp point of the beak as the hen feeds. The eagle twists its head, looks me in the eye, and turns its regal beak back into the wind. Sicklebills have evolved a long, curved beak used to probe for insects in thick moss and tree bark. The raven shot down through the dark and rammed his beak into the sergeant's hat. The cassowary pecks the ground, gobbling fat worms with quick chops of its beak. Show More Sentences It also has a tiny beak with a large gape which help the bird catch its aerial prey. The hatchlings have a beak with a raptorial hook that they use to stab host nestlings. They have the same talons and beak structure as a bird of prey but weren't using them for this until their food source ran out. 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. By the time the last rows have done their scraping, the beak is completely closed, leaving the algae trimmings to be sucked in during the next chomp. The Duck Dynasty congressman got caught sticking his beak in the wrong place. I also like a bird's beak knife, for fiddly decorative things like making radish flowers and skinning apples in one long peel. Living on the edge of precipices, it will raise skeletons high into the sky, dash them onto the rocks, and then extract the marrow with its curved beak. Gangly yet beautifully coloured with its bright indigo feathers, glossy black wings, and vivid red beak and legs, the pukeko is a member of the same family as the weka. Electricity crawled along the silhouette of the ravening beast, and its viciously pointed beak glinted and was outlined in a shifting corona of spitting sparks. Ventral valve most strongly convex posteriorly, ventral deflection beginning at about 6 mm from beak, becoming slightly alate, but not preserved on anterior portion of valve. The scrub jay drinks by lapping up the water and then tilting his head back in order to swallow, while the mourning dove dips his beak deep into the water and sips away. The male zebra finch's brightly colored beak helps attract mates. Anhingas have webbed feet and a beak like an arrow to catch fish. The coat of arms, adopted in 1992, consists of a gold eagle against a blue background holding a cross in its beak, a sword in one claw, and a scepter in the other. During the day, various treks are offered into the jungle, though I suspect the chances of actually seeing a tapir or a jaguar are as slim as a hummingbird's beak. He would open the beak and put about six of these down the hen's thrapple. Careful brushstrokes detail a beady eye, feathers, beak and claws. They are characterized by a short snout and the loss of almost all their teeth, which were replaced by a turtle-like beak used for cropping vegetation. It has a larger beak than the giant squid and has hooks on its tentacles. Show More Sentences You can eat everything on a squid but the beak, shell, and eyes. She was also lucky she didn't have daddy's beak nose that Mauve had. A more contemporary critical reading of The Nose leads us to Pinocchio, whose own beak was known to grow in proportion to the telling of tall tales. Cyril has stuck his beak in controversy throughout his career. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. If there are areas that this Government needs to stick its nosy beak into, maybe it should focus on those areas, because many of those people are its own core members. The main weapon for ramming into enemy ships was the beak of the ship. Among these are several discrete characters that include a premaxillary beak, a highly modified first manual digit, and an hourglass-shaped proximal metatarsal. It was black with a white bib, a red tail and an orange and yellow beak. Players have to race through a day in the life of an Eton schoolboy, taking in a sick note from your dame, a ticking-off from your beak and life as a praeposter. One blackbird wearing an orange beak sat on a branch and made a faint noise like a rubber duck with its whistle full of pudding, a tweet with the edges rubbed smooth. When they blow, their melon and beak tend to jut above the water surface. While the auditory and visual capabilities of the owl allow it to locate and pursue its prey, the talons and beak of the owl do the final work. The temperature of their beak, neck surfaces, lower legs, feet and toes are regulated through heat exchange with the environment. Inhalation begins at the mouth and the nostrils located at the front of the beak. This strains the water squirting from the side of the beak and traps any food. The bandage was positioned around the head, just caudal to the commissure of the beak ventrolaterally. As the common name implies, the beak is usually white in color, but it may be a dark, ashy grey, in some older individuals. The pigeon rocked itself backwards and forwards on the bough, swelling out its breast feathers and laying its coralline beak upon them. Swans have been marked with a nick on the beak since about 1560 in England. Show More Sentences Unlike the closely related hawksbill turtle, the green turtle's snout is very short and its beak is unhooked. Leroy had survived, but had an injured wing and a scuffed beak. The cockpit has been resprayed to look like a beak, with the body, wings and tail also getting a makeover. Each arm has a pad covered in suckers which grabs and pulls prey toward its beak, paralyzing it with venom before eating it. The key part of the costume, beyond the head-to-toe fabric, was the beak. They shed the colourful outer parts of their bills after the breeding season, leaving a smaller and duller beak. Their record player was a bird with a big beak and their waste disposal unit was a hungry buzzard who lived underneath the sink. Consequently, it takes many hours of grooming for a lovebird to keep its beak down to a manageable level. Last Sunday I saw a light yellow specimen with bright red beak which I later identified as a peachy love bird. Her painting of a puffin, with sand eels in its beak, was based on a photo by her partner Gary Jones at South Stack, Anglesey. With a swift chop of its beak, the terror bird could have whomped its prey, a new fossil find confirms. A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow. We visit a captive breeding programme for the critically endangered takahe, a 2ft-high bird clinging by its beak to survival. Initial external examination of the carcass revealed a weight of 650 g, a very distended coelom, and evidence of regurgitation around the beak. The upper beak is notched near the tip, an adaptation which enables falcons to kill prey by severing the spinal column at the neck. A bird's beak is primarily made of bone as projections of the mandibles which are covered in keratin. She had pewter-coloured hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones. The difference in the expression of Bmp4 have been shown to be associated with changes in the growth and shape of the beak. Crows have been observed to puncture the skin with their beak and then peck out the animal's liver, thus avoiding the toxin. The rate of evolutionary change in a species' wing or leg or beak is assessed in degree-of-physical-change units called darwins. Show More Sentences And a sharp chicken beak is nothing to be trifled with either. Their beak is long, strong and conical with a slight downward curve at the end. The hornbill was prized for its beak and used in trade with China. Now proper French tradition requires that when you eat the ortolan, you drape a napkin over your head and consume the bird in one bite, beak, bones and all. A supersized chickenlike reptile with large, sharp claws and a toothless beak is the latest creature to earn the distinction of being called a dinosaur. But classic slang terms such as clype, beamer, jessie, ned, and even a snottery beak, are all coming to life for the first time thanks to a new illustrated book. Sharp violin-like sounds come from the male club-winged manakin, a tiny songbird from the Andean cloud forest in South America, yet not all come from his beak. The sharp beak of a consumed squid lodged in the whale's intestine may lead to the production of ambergris, analogous to the production of pearls. This behaviour is made possible by the unique hinging mechanism of their beak, which allows the upper and lower biting edges to meet at any of a number of angles. O how I should like to see her floating in the water yonder, turban and all, with her train streaming after her, and her nose like the beak of a wherry. Compound, serpentine mouldings include cyma recta, cymatium, cyma reversa and beak moulding, whose upper part is concave and lower part is convex. The cere is yellow, as are the feet, and the beak and claws are black. This emerging avian disease, which has been termed avian keratin disorder, results in gross overgrowth of the rhamphotheca, the outer, keratinized layer of the beak. If another kingfisher enters its territory, both birds display from perches, and fights may occur, in which a bird will grab the other's beak and try to hold it under water. Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes. Males will demonstrate ownership of a nest by gesturing towards their neighbours with their head with the beak pointing down and the wings slightly outstretched. Nobody had flown beside an osprey, painted by Audubon as if seen aloft by a companion bird, gripping a fish in its talons and opening its beak in midcry. Parrots are small to large birds with a characteristic curved beak shape. Fossil evidence of pelicans dates back to at least 30 million years to the remains of a beak very similar to that of modern species recovered from Oligocene strata in France. Birds that are related, such as Darwin's finches, but that vary in beak size and behavior specially evolved to their habitat are examples of a process called speciation. Show More Sentences The large beak and overall size, and the pink gape and skin along the beak could also resemble a hybrid between a Rockhopper Penguin and a Macaroni Penguin. They are characterised by a long beak and a large throat pouch used for catching prey and draining water from the scooped up contents before swallowing. Examples from Classical Literature If 283 they cannot manage this, they carry it to a rock, where they dismember it with their beak and claws. The braincase of the skull is crushed in three places as though by a raptor's beak. These are distinguishable one from the other mainly by the colour of the beak. Notwithstanding the strange, not to say grotesque, appearance of its beak, the seiche is decidedly an interesting creature. It has been made from the broad beak of a Strombus or dextral whorled Busycon. The caruncle remains on the beak for a variable length of time, but never is present in the spring following hatching. A curious form of the eagle is found in the alerion, which is represented without beak or legs. With a shock of horror, the man heard the hiss of escaping air as Kreega's beak and fingers finally worried the airhose loose. They have a kind of band, like the bandeau of widows, above the beak, which is of a tan colour. Jacky was a Cornish chough, coal-black in plumage, with brilliant orange-tinted beak. In this case my pet was a hornbill, a bird of discordant note, and with a huge beak, and a box-like crowned head. The beak of the ship bearing the statue of Hygieia, carved in wood, began to move. Pink touched the herons wings, its beak, its head, its glittering beady eyes and spindly leg. The stainer of the sea-fowl's beak, resolved to scour the main, far distant shores connected by swift fleets. The bridle or drawing point of the sledge is formed of hide, and is secured to the beak or stiffener. To tell a live Shrimp from a prawn, look at the long pointed beak which juts out from the front of the head. When the Mexican motmot trims his two tail feathers with his beak, he merely makes diamond cut diamond. The conirostral Passerin are characterised by a strong, robust beak, more or less conical, and without notches. A jabiru stork stood on one leg, beak on breast, meditating, caring nothing for all that was outside its ruminating mind. The Geranium, like the alfilaria, has a fruit resembling the long beak of the crane or stork. Show More Sentences Scimitar-babblers are so called because of the long, slender, compressed beak, which is curved downwards like that of a sunbird. All I do know was, that I was brought before a beak and charged with stealing. In front of his face, before a pair of lidless eyes that glowed like fire, a hellish, cruel beak struck at him. Then he brought some tidbit in his beak, went to the edge of the nest, and fed her. Their long hair hangs down over the shoulders, and round their necks a toucan beak or a bunch of feathers is worn as an ornament. They are usually relatively slender-bodied with a rounded head, an underslung jaw, and no beak. Straightway there descends a dove white as snow, bearing in its beak an ampulla full of chrism sent from heaven. Beaked and membered, in similar manner, have reference to the beak and legs. The crescentic extension above what is apparently the head occurs in many bird figures and may represent a beak. The alerion is a small bird of the eagle tribe, heraldically depicted as without beak or feet. The person with a beak was a stork, and muscadel knew what the stork wanted. The long beak apparently is used for nectar-feeding in flowers of the saguaro Cactus. Its frightful beak opened and closed, its beastlike talons sought to clutch support, its owl-like eyes became glazed and fixed. What a pitiless monster an unsatiated desire is, tearing your heart with its sharp claws and piercing beak for want of other prey! According to Petherick, they do not disdain dead animals, whose carcasses they disembowel with their powerful hooked beak. Girls like me have beak and talons like fully-fledged falcons. An aquiline nose is one hooked like the beak which belongs to an eagle. Its head was comparatively small, its eyes placed near the opening of the beak, and also small. I am lean and bony and I've got a beak where I should have a nose. He brought them alive in his beak, and gave them to his companion. Show More Sentences There is often a very audible snap of the beak as they arrest their prey. The feet are not feathered, and the legs and beak are shorter. They have a carinated beak, pretty strongly curved, and a forked tail. We had left our cast-iron beak in the side of the Cumberland. The eye is bright yellow, as is the cere or base of the beak. There seemed to be no end of things corbie could do with that beak of his. The hawk is costive, and opens her beak often, as if gasping for more air. The ping-pong-ball-sized bird with a hypodermic needle of a beak was the ruby-crowned kinglet. The curious beak of a crossbill is to pick seeds out of pine cones. I told you not to put poison on zee beak, it's too fast, zee other bird vill fall dead right avay. The mouths of these dinosaurs formed a kind of beak, sheathed in horn. The barb is allied to the carrier, but, instead of a very long beak, has a very short and very broad one. They are characterised by the disproportionately large beak. I was lugged before the beak, who gave me six doss in the Steel. To make a beak, break off the end of a pretzel stick, and push it into the bottom yellow marshmallow. A vortex has us by the beak and we dive down a two-thousand foot slant at an angle of thirty-five. The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. But in that same instant the long beak of the skua caught it by the head. It is quite like what happens to a hen when its beak is put on the ground and a chalk line drawn away from it on the floor. The beak is flattened laterally, that is, in a plane at right angles to that of a spoonbill or duck. Show More Sentences Apparently, the only way to go if you are of the feathered variety, is to claw off the wrapper and get your beak in. Must their ever-ravening eagles beak and talon annihilate us? Most heraldry books state also that the martlet has no beak. The summit or apex of the valve is called the umbo, or beak. I dreamed that a great eagle came swooping down from a mountain, and dug his curved beak into the neck of each of them till he had killed them all. Andrade studied the cooling ability of the toucan's beak by taking readings of the temperatures of six toco toucans, which have the biggest bill of all 38 species of toucans. The Jackal winced, though he was full three seasons old, but you cannot resent an insult from a person with a beak a yard long, and the power of driving it like a javelin. He had a tiny plump body and a delicate beak, and slender delicate legs. Find more words! 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