covey

One surprise in his black art exhibition was the inclusion of “Virginian Partridge,” a dramatic 1830 John James Audubon graphic showing a fierce red hawk going after a covey of fluttering quail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2020

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

While pondering how man-made rubbish can still find its way far into no-man’s land, a covey of Gambel’s quail flushed off to my side.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2017

Out flew Secret Service agents and a covey of aides, all unavoidably inflated with the adrenaline-rush self-importance of big-time campaigning, and then from behind the tinted glass came Hillary Clinton.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2016

Every time she broke something, the ladies in the fountain cried “Oooo!” like a covey of frightened doves.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

In a 1916 interview with the Washington Evening Star, Bailey described the coveys of quail that roamed the fringes of Washington, “fed by the police patrolling the outskirts of the city.”

From Washington Post ● May 25, 2022

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

Thirteen resident coveys — 121 quail — ranged over the area.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson