beak

Example Sentences

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With a razor-sharp banana for a beak and a wingspan surpassing 6 feet, there aren’t many flying things on this continent that can top it.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026

More of the creature has now been recovered at the reserve - including its beak which is a hard mouth part used for crushing prey.

From BBC • Dec. 9, 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

“What we gonna do ‘bout that beak of yours?

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

A finch forced to feed on hard seeds adapted by “strengthening” its beak.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee