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
Some day the Dean would probably live entirely encased in a house of glass and be happy as a sandpiper.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
