How to Use cormorant in a Sentence

cormorant

noun

• Diamond Jim Brady was perhaps the most celebrated cormorant of the Gilded Age.
• All but ____________ of the 40 or so species of cormorants in the world are able to fly.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 1 June 2017
• Hundreds of black cormorant birds stood as if sentries on the rocks east of the cove.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
• The eagles eat the cormorants who also nest on the island, and have never bothered the goats.
  — Megan Jones, Lake County News-Sun, 28 June 2017
• Noisy or silent, these creatures, like the herons, cormorants, and bald eagles, had chosen this place for a reason.
  — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
• Within earshot of the rumbling traffic of the Key Bridge, cormorants, egrets, herons and gulls have taken over Fort Carroll, abandoned since the 1920s.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2017
• Look out on the cliffs below the trail for breeding pelagic and Brandt’s cormorants, as well as the lonely northern gannet.
  — Jill K. Robinson, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
• Smolts are picked off by birds like double crested cormorants and caspian terns.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• As the surf crashed against a barrier of sand, pelicans, cormorants and ospreys soared over the dark water.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and sea reptiles made way for sea-diving birds like cormorants and penguins.
  — National Geographic, 13 Dec. 2017
• There weren’t any cormorants perched on the rocks—a sign that the fish hadn’t arrived in numbers yet—but the sight of all that tan water sliding by was reassuring.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 16 Apr. 2020
• Harbor seal pups pop up and down in the calm waves lapping around you, and double-crested cormorants flap their wings in your direction.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 11 June 2017
• As the boat passed a small island, an African fish eagle was seen nested near a cacophonous gathering of cormorants.
  — Benedict Moran, National Geographic, 7 May 2019
• Ground zero for bird watchers is the area to the right of the marina, where a feisty rookery of nesting double-crested cormorants and herons chatters up a storm in the trees.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 11 June 2017
• It was moored at the end of a long dock in a busy marina with views of rocks bristling with cormorants, seagulls screeching overhead, and a bevy of ducks that arrived each morning for their share of the toast.
  — Tara Conklin, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2019
• The island’s primary residents are birds: puffin, mures, and cormorants are abundant in the sea cliffs.
  — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2023
• Otters and sea lions bask on the jetty; pumpkin orange sea stars are visible in the clear water, and cormorants and gulls circle above the rock.
  — Dallas News, 4 May 2020
• Some sea birds, including pelicans, loons and cormorants also sick from the toxin, are also being cared for at the park.
  — Debbi Baker, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• The federal agent quickly identified the man holding white and brown pelicans, a cormorant and two gulls.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 8 Aug. 2017
• What actually happened: Killing the birds drove the colony to a bridge several miles upriver, where the cormorants ate even more salmon than before.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
• The fetid mess left behind, along with the waste from cormorants and other seabirds, sometimes proved overwhelming in a community where tourists pay to eat outside.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 14 July 2016
• The fetid mess left behind, along with the waste from cormorants and other seabirds, sometimes proved overwhelming in a community where tourists pay to eat outside.
  — National Geographic, 14 July 2016
• The deep-diving cormorant is one of hundreds that the Wildlife Conservation Society tracks to ensure that the birds have places to live where they can be protected---and well fed.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2012
• Westport: There was a black skimmer and a great cormorant reported at Gooseberry Neck.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
• Now more broken bodies are turning up: a massacre of 600 arctic-tern chicks in the United Kingdom; a rash of pelicans, cormorants, gulls, and terns washed up along West African coasts.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2023
• Gary Vonderohe, a fish biologist in the department's Charleston office, said the man found them in his yard - beneath a tree used as a roost by cormorants.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 2 June 2017
• From his fishing boat, early on a recent morning, Mr. Diagne pointed to what was left of his former village: a few ruins on the shore, and a sunken tree covered with cormorants that used to be in the town square.
  — Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 23 May 2018
• Visitors may spot snowy egrets, great blue herons, banded cormorants, wood storks, black vultures and anhingas – a.k.a.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• The water, at first black with the silt and organic muck deposited in the spillway tunnels over the past year, startled swimming cormorants into flight and soon turned the placid green river into a churn of white and brown foam.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
• The island, located 620 miles east of mainland Ecuador, is home to a number of species, including iguanas, penguins, flightless cormorants and rats.
  — Fox News, 15 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024