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

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

Pipping is when a baby bird uses its beak to crack open its shell, and a pip watch is the online vigil and hoopla surrounding that activity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025

Captain Snow licked saliva from the edges of his beak.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques