beak
Example Sentences
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Over time, however, many of the stranger pairs began sharing space more comfortably and eventually perched together, touched beaks or groomed each other.
From Science Daily
She converged her fingers to a point, wrists bent slightly, so that her hands formed two “beaks.”
From Los Angeles Times
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
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.
Many of the beasts have comical attributes: feathered elbows, parrot beaks or sail-like membranes on their heads.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
