covey

Goodbye as well to a covey of quarterbacks, several of whom didn’t impress despite getting ample opportunities with most starters sitting out the entire preseason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2025

Now, the family keeps a covey of cloth masks in a basket near the front door.

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2020

The thin layer of ice on the washes sparkled in the sunshine, and occasionally a covey of birds exploded from beneath the brush, adding cymbals to an otherwise easy listening classical movement.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2018

From businesses, governments and organisations, a scripted response will fail to resonate as it will not covey empathy and compassion.

From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2018

Dane finally arrives and sits on a nearby swooping oak branch rather than join the covey of boulders we sit on.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

The book resonates with a rustic knowingness that coveys the intricacies and suspicions of tightly bound lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

Hudson Reese, 84, who owns 1,000 acres in Halifax County, said as a teen, he could regularly find eight coveys of quail on his farm, and now that’s down to one or two.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2023

A Park Service employee, for example, does not have the right to tweet or blog things related to their official duties in a manner that coveys official status.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2017

French has no word that combines the sense of “broken” and “mad” that cracked coveys in English, so De Freyman makes it “cinglé”, which comes back from Schwartz as “crazy”.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2016

For a week our host had noted where the coveys were gathering.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck