vulture

Example Sentences

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The birds perched in the trees were not vultures but gentle cooing doves, with a few comically roosting chickens mixed among them.

From Literature

“The vultures are out there swarming,” Michelson said, referring to developers and investors looking to turn a profit following the devastation.

From Los Angeles Times

There were seagulls and puffins and cormorants and vultures and skuas and terns and sandpipers and eagles and every other type of northern bird, all flying together.

From Literature

Back on the island, Brightbill had practiced flying like hawks and owls and sparrows and vultures.

From Literature

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