How to Use beak in a Sentence

beak

noun
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  • But something about the crook in its beak made her pulse quicken.
    — Alex Stuckey, San Antonio Express-News, 3 June 2018
  • Put the bundle beak side down on the work surface and use your palm to lightly round the ball.
    — Amy Dewall Dadmun, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 May 2018
  • Blue parrotfish with pointy beaks weave in and out of ghostly portholes.
    — Erik Heinrich, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
  • That means beaks appeared earlier than thought, perhaps around the same time as wings, Bhullar says.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • The birds have neon-orange beaks and white eyes dotted with pupils that look like the period at the end of this sentence.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Apr. 2018
  • An often-fatal virus called psittacine beak and feather disease has also taken a toll.
    — National Geographic, 11 May 2018
  • Some, like Hesperornis, were flightless creatures with a beak full of teeth that lived in the ocean.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 24 May 2018
  • The finding also offers insights into what Ichthyornis’s beak might have looked like.
    — Sid Perkins, Scientific American, 2 May 2018
  • Only at the very tip of the snout does the beak become recognizable, covered in a hard layer of keratin similar to modern birds.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 4 May 2018
  • Despite its dinosaurlike teeth, Ichthyornis had a hooked beak, likely covered by a hard layer of keratin, on the tip of its snout.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 2 May 2018
  • The process could seem like something between a mud-wrestling match and a fight to the death: horrific, in the instances of chickens plucked naked and strung up by the neck, their beaks agape as if screaming.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
  • The handsome visage that’s on full display in Apple’s Sugar has been replaced with a scared face, receding hairline, and a beak nose.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Some have suggested that those with toothless beaks were better at eating seeds and grains, which would have more easily survived in the apocalyptic landscape than the plants that made them.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
  • Nevada and Las Vegas had legalized sports betting pretty much to themselves for decades, but soon all the states can wet their beaks with profits from their citizens.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 16 May 2018
  • Hovering over it all is a certain nocturnal bird of prey, whose beady eyes and camouflaged beak bear some resemblance, not coincidentally, to a cartoon of an alien.
    — Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
  • Now, high-tech analyses of four fossilized three-dimensional skulls provide tantalizing hints about what the beak of this iconic creature might have looked like as well as clues about the evolution of early birds.
    — Sid Perkins, Scientific American, 2 May 2018
  • The heron would drop the snake and stab it again with its beak.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 May 2024
  • Stay ready, look for the beak or even the eye, and shoot right at the head.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The birds’ task was to touch the circles with their beaks and tongues.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The weapons: sharp beak and talons used to slash passersby in the legs and thighs.
    — James V. Grimaldi, WSJ, 1 May 2022
  • The male lands next to her and places the slim, silvery fish in her beak.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 5 July 2023
  • The flesh didn’t come from a bird with feathers, a beak and a brain.
    — Jon Emont, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Big white egrets swoop to catch those fish in their beaks.
    — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • When Collins moved the olive branch from beak to talons, the image was locked.
    — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
  • To the left, with the big beak, is a Needless Smut model.
    — Cody Delistraty, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Some use their hard beak to drill into the shells of clams.
    — Erin Spencer, The Conversation, 9 May 2022
  • Its skull was 50% longer than the skull of a T. rex, with a toothless beak.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 25 Sep. 2021
  • Tori laid next to the remote and poked it with her beak, then looked at the TV.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2021
  • The lad noticed just in time and the beak missed its target.
    — Jonathan Myerson, The New York Review of Books, 4 May 2020
  • These stellar nurseries can be seen as feathers in the Penguin’s tail and what resembles a fish in its beak.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 July 2024

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