beak

Example Sentences

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By then, however, the golden beak had long vanished and its original, three-dimensional shape had folded into its current fan-like form.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 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

Qingrong Yang captured a ladyfish snatching prey just beneath a little egret's beak.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2025

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

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

If you plot the beak sizes of finches, the points fit on a continuous curve.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee