Example Sentences

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Beaks grow or shrink over generations; feathers change in color or luster in response to different selective pressures.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2021

Beaks on both puffins studied had the same orange glow.

From National Geographic • Apr. 27, 2018

That’s because the new wave of cable animation—Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Regular Show, and Harvey Beaks among them—isn’t made the same way corporate cartoons were made in the past few decades.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2015

You still do your job well even though you have to share an office with Beaks for 10 hours a day don’t you?

From The Guardian • Jul. 17, 2015

“You two are not going to embarrass me in front of the Guardians. Spines straight! Wings preened! Beaks pointed!”

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi