How to Use beak in a Sentence

beak

noun

• Gaga’s pink beak is stitched after a run-in with a real dog.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, Vogue, 12 June 2018
• 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 and attach a yellow beak at the bottom of the triangle.
  — Good Housekeeping, 8 Oct. 2018
• After a quick scan of the activity below, the owl bent and grabbed the vole with its beak.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
• Cut a piece of black paper that is as wide as the top of your box and comes down the front into a point to form his face and beak area.
  — Good Housekeeping, 8 Oct. 2018
• Feavel came to the home and was able to remove the rubber earbud from the beak and release the crane back to her mate.
  — Jordyn Noennig, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2018
• The crane-head puppet with a moveable beak is carved and painted by a Japanese artist.
  — Washington Post, 13 July 2018
• Since April the group has taken in 50 of the pelicans noted for their large, pointy beaks.
  — John Rogers, Fox News, 13 June 2018
• These stellar nurseries can be seen as feathers in the Penguin’s tail and what resembles a fish in its beak.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 July 2024
• So, how and when in its 65-million-year-long evolutionary chain did those toothed snouts give way to modern beaks?
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2018
• The ring around — from a plastic soda pop bottle — slid easily off the exhausted stork’s beak, Tanwar said.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 13 June 2018
• The data narrow the search and can lead to finding exact genes and proteins that over the slow course of evolution created the bird beak of today.
  — Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2018
• The turtles look like miniature dinosaurs, with beady eyes on either side of their heads, ghastly hooked beaks and shells dotted with prehistoric-looking spikes.
  — Jared Gilmour, miamiherald, 13 June 2018
• Meals are funneled towards the squid’s razor-sharp beak, which can julienne food into bite-size pieces that are subsequently pulverized and rammed down its throat by a toothy tongue-like organ.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 21 June 2018
• And risking prison by returning to Pakistan would bolster his claim to be a selfless defender of democracy from military meddling, rather than a self-serving politician caught with his beak in the till.
  — The Economist, 6 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• There is more distinct coloration around the northern’s neck; a beak that extends just a bit longer.
  — Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024