sandpiper

Example Sentences

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The state’s shores offer temperate-weather hiking with views of dramatic cliffs, crashing waves, pelagic birds such as the blue-footed booby and several species of sandpiper, and native wildflowers.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2024

Jolie is the 14,000th addition to the ark; the 13,000th milestone species, announced in July 2022, was the spoon-billed sandpiper.

From National Geographic • May 19, 2023

Birders flocked to the 520 floating bridge this week after learning that a sharp-tailed sandpiper had been spotted nearby.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2022

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 • May 6, 2022

Just a few markings clustered together, like the footprints of a sandpiper that has abruptly taken flight.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee