sandpiper

Example Sentences

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The former Times critic Parul Sehgal noted that Watson covers vast terrain while “skittering back and forth like a sandpiper at the shores of language’s Great Debates.”

From New York Times

Billions of other young birds, including warblers and flycatchers, terns and sandpipers, set out on similarly spectacular and dangerous migrations every spring, skillfully navigating the night skies without any help from more experienced birds.

From Scientific American

Juvenile salmon shelter and feed in eelgrass beds there, while migratory sandpipers frequent nearby mud flats.

From Seattle Times

The light glinted off the kelp beds, roused the shorebirds and turned the waves translucent green before they crashed and chased the sandpipers up the beach.

From Los Angeles Times

On the other hand, some of the birds in the aviary — including sandpipers, snowy plovers and oystercatchers — might need more time to adjust to visitors to their space.

From Los Angeles Times