beak
Example Sentences
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Standing about 25 inches tall, it likely had a toothless beak, large eye sockets, and hollow bones.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
By then, however, the golden beak had long vanished and its original, three-dimensional shape had folded into its current fan-like form.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025
Meanwhile the narrator’s financially devious husband appears as a vulture with “the brooding eye, the blood-tipped beak, the flabby folds of flesh” of a bird of prey.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
Qingrong Yang captured a ladyfish snatching prey just beneath a little egret's beak.
From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025
But before he’d even finished, Miel had flipped up into the sky, grabbing one missile in his beak and spinning around to kick the other out of the air with his claws.
From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness
Vocabulary lists containing beak
Aquatic, Waddle, and Plumage: Penguin Parlance
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"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll, Chapters 4–6
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