How to Use avian in a Sentence

avian

adjective

• Two strains of avian flu in the past decade also may have emerged from a poultry market and a goose farm.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• The low turkey prices are driven by falling demand for turkey due to the avian flu.
  — Deena Zaidi, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2024
• Now, with mounting concerns about the transmission of avian flu, we might be tested again.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024
• Every so often, a company claims to be just two or three years away from the perfect avian vehicle.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2020
• Corvid birds—a group including crows, ravens and jays—are noted brainiacs of the avian world and also spend extra time rearing their young.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
• Egg prices Egg prices are rising again, but a spike in avian flu and high demand due to holiday cooking are making the problem worse.
  — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 25 Nov. 2024
• Food scientists warn that other dangerous microbes, not just avian flu, are proven to lurk in milk that has not been pasteurized, a process that kills germs with high heat.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2024
• But simply getting the data on avian deaths at solar facilities proved challenging.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 10 Aug. 2020
• Some, like avian flu, an influenza originally in birds that can infect humans, largely stop with the new host and don’t move from human to human.
  — Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
• Among the reasons were high energy prices due to the war in Ukraine and an avian flu outbreak, which in particular affected the price for poultry and eggs.
  — Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
• The birds, which are native to the islands along Africa’s southwestern coast, are endangered because of overfishing, avian malaria and oil spills.
  — Ananya Panchal, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2020
• After the birds began showing symptoms of the avian illness on Nov. 11, the farm sent samples to an Arizona lab for testing.
  — Karen Bartunek, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2024
• This change has led to the emergence of several zoonotic diseases, from Ebola to avian and swine influenzas and several coronaviruses.
  — Stacey McKenna, Scientific American, 20 May 2020
• When the virtual Chicxulub impact dimmed sunlight by 15 percent or more, no habitat anywhere on Earth could support non-avian dinosaurs.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 29 June 2020
• The closest case of avian flu to date was 110 miles away.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2022
• The cost of a dozen — though volatile thanks to avian flu — has doubled to more than $3.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• An outbreak of avian flu caused a shortage of eggs, the price of which soared.
  — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
• There are other avian options to bronze in the oven and present with panache.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Egg prices, which have been volatile after a bout of avian flu, fell 7.3%.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• For starters, this is the first time that the posture seen in the embryo has been seen in a non-avian dinosaur.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Dec. 2021
• Bioterrorism, the avian flu, the Iraq war, and pedophile priests?
  — Ew Staff, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2022
• An avian flu outbreak, meanwhile, has sent egg prices up 21% over the past year.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 May 2023
• In 2008, Science published a new avian tree based on DNA.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• So far, tests confirmed 10 of those birds were positive for the avian flu.
  — Cheri Carlson, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
• Their eggs were huge, larger than that of even the biggest non-avian dinosaurs.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
• Instead, the pouches were simply stuck to the backs of the avian assistants with some duct tape.
  — Robin Andrews, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
• Miller said the ponds were refilled last year once the immediate threat of avian flu had passed.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 25 May 2024
• Angry Birds fans can take the avian battle to a whole new level at the end of the month, thanks to Electric Gamebox.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 7 June 2022
• Try a masked cape and corset look for an avian look with Victorian flair.
  — Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 12 May 2022
• After a bird tests positive for avian flu, they are culled to control the spread of the disease.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024