covey

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

From Washington Post ● May 30, 2020

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

Mr. Murphy said he almost fell after he startled a covey of pigeons that burst into flight.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2019

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

There was so much bobbing and grinning and nodding up and down, they looked like a covey of quails.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

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

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson