How to Use beak in a Sentence

beak

noun
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  • 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
  • The beak’s two yellow ridges, called the lamella and the cere, lit up.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • The team suspects the birds may have used their beak to snip and pull at the harness.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • But the snake wasn’t dead and kept wrapping itself around the bird’s beak.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 May 2024
  • Be sure to leave enough room for the beak and feet before placing the ovals that form the head and body of the duck.
    — Amy Raudenbush, Philly.com, 22 June 2018
  • Cut a triangle beak and feet from black card stock and glue to the body.
    — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Her cake looks kind of like an old boot with a pencil for a beak.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The Lystrosaurus was herbivorous, about the size of a pig, with small tusks and a kind of beak.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
  • It’s about the size of a baseball, with a pointy black beak, white throat, gray breast, and gray-black wings and back.
    — Alexandra Ossola, Quartz, 13 June 2020
  • About twice the size of the aphid, the minute pirate bugs stick their beaks into their prey and suck it dry.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 21 Oct. 2017
  • This is the first time a basal thyreophoran has a predentary bone, or a beak in the front of the lower jaw.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Her teacher then dashed a streak of orange on top of the bird’s head and a dab on its beak.
    — Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019
  • Feathers in the upper part of the body are brown with black bars and spots, and a white stripe runs from the beak back through the eye.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • And, yep, these birds have beady black eyes flanking their sharp beaks.
    — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The man behind the beak, Ted Giannoulas, could not have been nicer to me.
    — The Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Hawks are a type of predatory bird with sharp talons and beaks.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Its teeth are fused into a sharp beak, giving it a birdlike appearance.
    — Vox Staff, Vox, 5 Nov. 2024

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