beak

Example Sentences

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"He had a small laceration to his beak and one just on the left side of his body - but other than that, he was pretty much absolutely fine," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 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

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

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

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2024

“You made an enemy today,” Pelicarnassus said, an infuriating smile on his beak.

From "Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody" by Patrick Ness