bird of prey
Example Sentences
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White-tailed eagles - the UK's largest bird of prey - will be released across Exmoor National Park after the government approved the latest stage in a controversial national reintroduction scheme.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
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
Like the bird of prey seeking carrion, a foreign correspondent is characterized as a misery merchant or conflict cowboy, making a living from death and disaster.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025
Pai moved with quick, jerky, impatient strides, swinging his stick, thrusting his head this way and that toward the workers he passed, like a long-necked bird of prey.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
