How to Use owl in a Sentence

owl

noun
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  • The video shows the third time that the owl hit the window, Auger says.
    — Andrew Mark Miller, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Good for the frogs, bad for the owls that like to eat them.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Apr. 2020
  • The owl hunts at night and tends to sleep during the day.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In this case, the pupils of this fossil owl were small.
    — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 25 May 2022
  • Then, toward the end of the video, Lamar stares at a caged owl.
    — Samantha Chery, Washington Post, 5 July 2024
  • Many owl species, like the barn owl, weigh less than two pounds.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
  • The owl tells him to sing and play his rattle in the morning.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2021
  • But when the owl from the Christmas tree swooped down to scoop up the van and the poor, doomed, tiny bros?
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2021
  • Because the owl started to inspect the origin of the sounds.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022
  • But when fall arrives, the boy must go to school, and the owl must migrate.
    — New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • The waning moon, hung in the sky; A great gray owl winged silently by.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Milky eagle owls are the largest type of owl in Africa and are fierce hunters.
    — Brook Endale, The Enquirer, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Workers wrapped the owl in a blanket and took it to City Wildlife.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
  • For Wohl, releasing the owls back into the wild is the best part of her job.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The snowy's wingspan ties the great gray owl with the largest of North American owls.
    — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The carving was in the shape of an owl, its wings spread wide around my finger.
    — Devi Lockwood, Wired, 21 Sep. 2021
  • But the pair like to say they were introduced by a long-eared owl.
    — Ryan Garza, Freep.com, 8 May 2023
  • The odds of the owl making a successful kill dropped by 5%.
    — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 20 Oct. 2020
  • And don’t worry—no 16-bit owls were harmed in the making of this video game.
    — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 16 July 2024
  • Gray noted that the owl did more damage to the truck than to itself.
    — David Aaro, Fox News, 4 May 2021
  • An owl named Tyto escaped from the Fort Worth Zoo in 2013.
    — Dallas News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Had the owl traveled with the tree from Oneonta to Midtown?
    — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2020
  • As dusk fell one evening in September, an owl hooted and the wind sighed in the pines.
    — Jenna Russell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The virus was confirmed in a wild owl that was found dead in Cache County last month.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 May 2022
  • And birds of prey like buzzards, sparrowhawks, barn owls, and tawny owls.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The video then ends with a moody shot of Kendrick Lamar staring down a caged barnyard owl.
    — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 5 July 2024
  • The Silent Knight takes a flashlight from his belt in one hand and holds the owl up high in his other hand.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Not a picky eater, this owl will hunt up to 379 different species.
    — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
  • The birdlife drawn to the wetlands include buzzards, falcons, owls, eagles and vultures.
    — Laurie Werner, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024
  • Tree frogs, katydid, cicadas and myriad other insects joined the mournful sounds of a hoot owl.
    — Curtis Varnell, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024

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