How to Use beak in a Sentence

beak

noun

• 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
• The bird is touching its beak to her eyebrow and sitting on her finger.
  — Rachel Torgerson, Cosmopolitan, 14 Mar. 2018
• As for its diet, this new penguin species was likely a fish eater and sported very long, spear-like beaks.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
• With bobbing movements and sharp juts of its beak, the rooster snips as the venomous snake writhes in front of it.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2017
• Gervais' beaked whales have a slightly bulging forehead and a pronounced, narrow beak.
  — National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2018
• Since the early 1090s auto thefts and car beak-ins have tapered off.
  — Prescotte Stokes Iii, star-telegram, 22 Feb. 2018
• But cables left with their ends exposed have become a favorite of the birds, who use them to help wear down their ever-growing beaks.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 3 Nov. 2017
• Here’s another: Stationed near the bronze vulva is the skull of a bird with an enormous, phallic beak.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The birds have white and black plumage, and a beak that’s variously described as being orangish-pink and reddish-orange.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• With their shaggy throat feathers and long, hefty beaks, ravens are noticeably larger than crows, which have shorter, slimmer bills.
  — Ramon Padilla, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
• With an elongated neck and a curved, beak-like mouth, this spider bears a striking resemblance to a pelican.
  — Sean Greene, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Most distinctive, however are the crisp white and black stripes that run over the bird’s head from front to back, and its pale pink, or more commonly yellow, beak.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• The study's authors have also been able to piece together that, unlike the penguin of today, the ancient bird's beak was longer, Mayr said.
  — Jen Christensen, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
• Close your eyes and imagine the cartoon face of France: puffy eyelids; imperious beak; thin, supercilious lips; toque rising above like a Doric column.
  — Brett Martin, GQ, 12 Mar. 2018
• When Woodpecker removed her feathers and long beak, Black-ish actress Marsai Martin appeared.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024