How to Use condor in a Sentence

condor

noun

• Mafall, who had the wingspan of a condor, scaled the back of the bus to tie wheelchairs to the roof.
  — Lane Hartill, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2018
• Back then, there wasn't a single condor left in the wild.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2021
• Born last spring, #1111 is the second condor ever to fledge, or learn to fly, in Zion.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Jan. 2022
• Finkelstein has now shown that the condor’s fate is far from certain.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2012
• The body of an average condor can measure up to 4.5 feet tall and the wingspan up to 10 feet wide.
  — Fox News, 19 July 2022
• On the right side the American bald eagle flies toward the center to meet the condor.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2021
• In the sky, a lone condor soared south toward the three granite spires of Torres del Paine, just over the border in Chile.
  — Mark Johanson, Travel + Leisure, 23 Apr. 2022
• Coastal-dwelling condors have more of these compounds than those living inland, the study found.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
• Scientists also learned the condors’ carrion of choice has changed over the years.
  — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 4 May 2023
• The condors typically lay eggs on cave floors or in large crevices.
  — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2019
• From left to right: the South American condor flies toward the center.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2021
• The plan was to film a car in an alley using lights mounted on a hydraulic boom called a condor, but the hydraulics failed at the last minute.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
• The condor was placed on the federal endangered species list in 1967.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2019
• On Easter Sunday 1987, the final wild condor was brought in.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• Lewis is six feet five and has the wingspan of a condor, along with a vertical leap that enabled him to start dunking in sixth grade.
  — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 30 May 2019
• The new arrival was identified as No. 1,000 in the program's roster of condor chicks.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 28 July 2019
• One is a 4-month-old condor chick named Iniko that was living in a nest in a redwood tree about a mile from the facility.
  — James Rogers, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2020
• The image of Renée on a pay phone with fake rain and a [crane-like] condor lighting up the sky is burned in my brain as the beginning of everything.
  — Joanna Calo, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2023
• This year, the 1,000th condor reared his head inside a rocky hillside at Zion National Park.
  — CBS News, 23 Nov. 2019
• Each condor, both born in captivity and in the wild, has been closely tracked ever since.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 8 July 2020
• The outlet added that crows and other species, like condors, are also attracted to shiny items.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• The remaining four birds slowly follow the first brave condor.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
• Wildlife officials announced that the hatching of a chick in May brought the total number of condors in nature in the United States to 1,000.
  — Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2019
• His nest in a redwood tree may have been destroyed in recent days by wildfire, along with the rest of the 80-acre condor sanctuary in Big Sur.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• Tim Hauck, condor program manager for the Peregrine Fund, said in the release.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2021
• The scientists learned that the costs of gliding for condors were extremely low, barely twice the caloric expense of resting on the ground.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• To begin, all wild condors were captured and brought to the two zoos, causing the species to become temporarily extinct in the wild.
  — Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• This might explain why coastal condors have thinner eggshells than those inland.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
• For many spectators, spotting a condor is a bird-watching goal of a lifetime.
  — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
• There have been no new reports of sick or deceased condors since April 11, officials said.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024