beak - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • curve: He has a quick eye & sharply curved beak.
  • have: He has a sharp hooked beak, colored dark blue.
  • look: You have a black colored, and powerful looking beak.

Adjective modifier

  • psittacine: Such birds are listed under psittacine beak and feather disease in Table 1 printed in Part I.
  • hooked: He has a sharp hooked beak, colored dark blue.
  • pointed: Its has a pointed black beak, perfect for catching fish.
  • sharp: I didn't see the sharp beak aiming for my eyes.
  • yellow: She also has a long yellow beak that hardly ever stops talking!
  • bright: She is a dark brown color, and does not have the bright yellow beak or eye-ring seen in the male.

Modifies a noun

  • trimming: The British Egg Industry Council will lead an industry group to produce a Code of Practice for beak trimming.
  • color: In the poor light, even the leg and beak colors can be difficult to discern.
  • size: At first they did not appear to be Linnets because their markings and beak size did not appear to be familiar.
  • opening: Punch a 2.5 mm hole at points A - B & C, then chamfer the inside of the beak opening.

Noun used with modifier

  • bird: These should be given directly into the birds beak or better still with a dosing tube.
  • orange: It has a deep orange beak, with black at each end.
  • duck: This partial vessel was sculpted into a human upper face with a duck beak descending from just below the nose.

Possessives

  • bird: The sticky seeds stick to the bird's beak.
  • duck: Note that the duck's beak on the near side of the card is repositioned on to its far side.
  • eagle: Such a nose is called a hook nose or eagle's beak.

Preposition: of

  • bird: All the creatures below this point bury down into sand to prevent drying out and to avoid the probing beaks of predatory birds.

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