| Cassidy crouched down by the water and grinned at the comical looking ducks as they paddled and preened themselves in the clear crystal water. |
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| The crow preened its feathers and took wing again, gliding away into the trees. |
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| For almost 10 years, I have preened myself on this single modest benefaction. |
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| The police last week in Sunderland preened themselves on how good intelligence had enabled them to spot and control the troublemakers. |
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| A whole host of dandy dogs and preened pooches converged on Oulder Hill Community School over the weekend to strut their stuff. |
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| The coiffed and preened diners look up from such offerings as wild Alaskan sockeye salmon and goat-cheese tart. |
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| Some vultures sat contentedly on nearby rocks and placidly preened their feathers, others pecked hopefully among the exposed ribs of the corpse. |
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| Accordingly, even though birds without uropygial glands preened at the same rate as birds with glands, the former may have suffered more breakage of feather barbules. |
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| In 1988, Leigh Bowery preened, posed and lounged on a couch in a range of fetish outfits at the Anthony D'Offay Gallery. |
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| As the feathers are preened with the bill, secretions are collected from the short feathers protruding out of the opening of the uropygial gland. |
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| Already what is last years, more balconies are always preened giving in what is city a more cheerful and gjortjni' atmosphere. |
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| He primped and preened for the cameras like a Hollywood diva. |
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| She glided like a queen into the Whitney Gala on Monday night and watched as hot young things preened and posed in her gowns. |
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| For brief moments, she seemed to be steering clear of terminal impact – she would appear primped and preened on some chat-show or other, but then hours later be snapped falling out of a nightclub bleary-eyed. |
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| In previous seasons of BGT regardless of how primped and preened she was, Amanda was unthreatening, a little mousey even. |
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| And the nation's sweetheart is looking preened, pumped and primed with the pearliest gnashers in the business. |
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| It is almost a decade since the Gleneagles G8 summit agreed to double aid flows to Africa and western governments preened themselves when the target was eventually met. |
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| Bernardini, whose own looks are pure Hollywood, stretched his limbs on the track and afterwards preened for dozens of photographers as he was sponged down under blushing trees. |
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| Stouter Yousef had preened himself in crimson silk, playing a king. |
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| Many of these superstars continue to have their hair preened by the maestro, for fashion shoots, shows and advertising campaigns, as do the recent plethora of 'Super' models. |
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| Watching them hammers home the point: we could buy their clothing ranges and copy their make-up, but we could never join the K-club, because the family are edited, filtered, primped and preened. |
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