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falcon - use in sentences
Converse of object
- perch: Between Cancer and Sirius is a peculiar symbol; a falcon perched on a vertical ' club ' .
- fly: Our flying falcons can get to over 100 MPH.
- watch: We watched the beautiful falcon at rest for nearly ten minutes!
- see: I drove to the Airport where I again saw the Falcon in flight heading further up the valley.
- include: Diarist Samuel Pepys took advantage of its many inns, including the Falcon in 1662.
- have: Nearly everyone who could afford one had a falcon of some type.
Preposition: in
- flight: I drove to the Airport where I again saw the Falcon in flight heading further up the valley.
Adjective modifier
- peregrine: The fastest creature on earth is thought to be the peregrine falcon can reach speeds of over 150 mph in a dive.
- Maltese: There was one in The Maltese Falcon, which is a falcon.
- red-footed: Red-footed falcon: one of the highlights of the week was the often impressive passage of this species over Akrotiri.
- large: Which is why no large wild falcons live in farmland in the UK, only in coastal or open areas.
- small: The Merlin is the smallest falcon in the UK.
- red-necked: I was scanning ahead and shouted that we were coming up to a Red-necked Falcon perched on a tree.
Modifies a noun
- tube: Spin out antibody precipitate ( eg 30 mins 3500rpm using 50ml Falcon tubes in bench centrifuge ).
Noun used with modifier
- lanner: Lanner falcons can fly at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour in one of their famous power dives called a stoop.
- ml: The flow through was collected in a 50 ml falcon tube and applied once more to the column.
- RAF: Charities Each year the RAF Falcons support a local charity.
- hobby: Swallows collect in their thousands to roost in the reed beds and are hunted by the elegant hobby falcon.
- pygmy: The red-billed buffalo weaver nests on the track into the Lodge had some pygmy falcons in residence.
- hunting: Trafalgar Square used to be the site of the Royal Mews, where hunting falcons were kept.
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