bird of prey
Example Sentences
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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
How do you share a film set with a notoriously fierce bird of prey?
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025
The opening seconds of the first Test saw the pair of them setting the agenda, Curry with a monstrous hit on James Slipper and Beirne swooping like a bird of prey to win a penalty.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2025
“He is a mix between a bird of prey, like a peregrine falcon, with extremely streamlined shapes — of course a feline but also a Mexican salamander called an axolotl,” Otto says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2025
He looked like an overgrown bird of prey.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
