How to Use talon in a Sentence

talon

noun
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  • The hawk gripped the mouse in its talons.
  • When Collins moved the olive branch from beak to talons, the image was locked.
    — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
  • The talon healed nicely, but the eye had to be removed.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The eagle then flared its wings, stretched its talons and — in a flash — plucked a fish for lunch.
    — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2018
  • Raptors' talons are designed to shred the flesh of their prey.
    — Katie Vogel, Cincinnati.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The officer found the hawk hanging by its talons on the wires.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2017
  • The main tracks here are 4 to 8 inches long and clearly show three toes, each with a talon on the end.
    — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2019
  • The eagle symbolizes the air and holds an item in each talon.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2020
  • With a vole in its talons, the hand-sized bird perched on a branch outside a wooden box nailed to the tree.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
  • Some collided with the sides of the aviary; others tried to grab the fence with their blunt black talons.
    — Meera Subramanian, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Hawks are a type of predatory bird with sharp talons and beaks.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • In the living room, a pair of glowing eyes and a set of talons appeared at the window.
    — Maria Carter, Country Living, 21 July 2017
  • In the right talon is the trident, which symbolizes Neptune, the Roman God of the sea.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2020
  • The eagle’s beauty brings tourists, but their talons kill lambs.
    — Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The pastel talons gleamed brighter than her shimmery top.
    — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 5 July 2023
  • But slowly, week by week, the talons that for decades had gripped her loosened, and her soul slipped free.
    — Christian Wiman, Harper's Magazine, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The fake seal on the shop's merchandise shows the eagle clutching cash in its right talons.
    — The Washington Post, oregonlive.com, 25 July 2019
  • The fake seal on the shop’s merchandise shows the eagle clutching cash in its right talons.
    — Reis Thebault, The Denver Post, 25 July 2019
  • But trapping peacocks, with their sharp beaks and talons, is not easy.
    — Patricia Mazzei Alfonso Duran, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The two made a plan to put on gloves and throw a couple of garments over them and try to untangle their talons.
    — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 22 Oct. 2019
  • The star paired her outfit with a ponytail, bold hoops, a bright red lip and matching red talon nails.
    — Jillian Ruffo, PEOPLE.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • It was not delivered in the talons of one of those owls from Harry Potter.
    — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The boy suffered a puncture wound on his head, a cut near his eye, and other injuries from the bird's talons.
    — Stephen Hudak, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 May 2018
  • Crosshair fires a stun dart into the winged creature’s talon, freeing Anakin.
    — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The young male eagle was in bad shape, barely breathing, curled up, talons clenched.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 26 June 2019
  • Its left talons, rather than clasping 13 arrows, appear to clutch a set of golf clubs.
    — Reis Thebault, The Denver Post, 25 July 2019
  • The real seal has a bald eagle clutching arrows in one set of talons and an olive branch in the other.
    — NBC News, 25 July 2019
  • The eagle was eventually able to snatch the rabbit out of the fox’s mouth and into its talon.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • The fish appeared to have talon marks in its skin when the couple inspected it, according to Asbury Park Press.
    — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
  • Mark Witton The gryphon, or griffin, is a legendary creature dating back to classical antiquity, sporting the body, legs, and tail of a lion and the wings, head, and front talons of an eagle.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024

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