How to Use gannet in a Sentence

gannet

noun

• On the starboard side of the Launch Out, a flock of gannets follows the boat in a cacophony of greedy cackles.
  — Matthew Bremner, Slate Magazine, 24 July 2017
• The team then stuffed two real northern gannet wings with cotton and propped them up in a wind tunnel.
  — Mennatalla Ibrahim, Science | AAAS, 7 July 2021
• Anyway, down there in the middle of a lonely sea, the person in the boat says that the calls of gannets and the cries of curlews are what have replaced men’s laughter for them.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
• The tākapu, or Australasian gannet, has nostrils in its mouth and eyes that can change shapes.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
• Little Skellig, where boats are not allowed to land, is a seabird sanctuary to one of the largest colonies in the world of northern gannets.
  — Julia Blakely, Smithsonian, 11 Jan. 2018
• But types of gannets have settled all over the world, including in Scotland.
  — Yonette Joseph, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Hop on one of the boats waiting at the dock in Perce to cross to this unique park where a massive gathering of northern gannets lands every year to raise their young.
  — Sylvie Bigar, miamiherald, 4 Nov. 2017
• The severe southeast coast here is gorgeous in its craggy rawness — known as an ideal spot to glimpse egrets, herons, and gannets.
  — Ross Kenneth Urken, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2023
• In the 1990s, conservationists set up concrete gannets on the western side of Mana to lure real birds.
  — Yonette Joseph, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2018
• Nigel, a handsome gannet bird who lived on a desolate island off the coast of New Zealand, died suddenly this week.
  — Author: Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
• Viking Age explorers followed ocean foragers such as guillemots and gannets to new shores.
  — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• Viking Age explorers followed ocean foragers such as guillemots and gannets to new shores.
  — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• Among the animals that come out to prey are albatross, Cape gannets, African penguins, humpback whales, Cape fur seals, dolphins, and sharks.
  — National Geographic, 4 Nov. 2016
• Robertson père got 6,000 acres of undulating pastureland and forest atop craggy sea cliffs, one of which is home to the world’s largest mainland colony of gannets.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 17 Jan. 2019
• There are also lots of trails for hiking, walking, and running, and a hotel guide can drive you down to the Cape itself for photography of the cliffs as well as an up-close look at the world’s largest colony of gannet birds.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2022
• Marine birds also included mallards, common scoters (a large sea duck), geese, cormorants, gannets, shags, auks, egrets and loons.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Mar. 2020
• Seabirds like boobies, gannets, and the vulnerable crested tern have flocked to the new island for nesting, and their deposits of poop and feathers are beginning the process that will one day cover the island in soil where plants can grow.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2018
• The Látrabjarg cliffs -- On the westernmost tip of Iceland is a 14-kilometer stretch of sea cliffs which are home to millions of birds including puffins, gannets, guillemots and razorbills.
  — Kate Springer, CNN, 8 Oct. 2017
• That includes beloved characters like the Atlantic puffin—easily spotted at the Réserve de parc national de l’Archipel-de-Mingan—and the northern gannet, a striking white seabird with a 6.5-foot wingspan.
  — Outside Online, 25 July 2022
• At Gooseberry Neck, there were 84 black scoters, three ruddy turnstones, three roseate terns, a great shearwater, a Northern gannet, two cliff swallows, and two orchard orioles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019
• Perhaps the saddest twist to this tale is that three other gannets settled on Mana last month, after conservation officials tweaked the sound system used to attract them, according to the New Zealand website Stuff.
  — Author: Karin Brulliard, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Feb. 2018
• That statistic includes common loons, northern gannets, double-crested cormorants, royal terns, Wilson’s plovers, black skimmers, and seaside sparrows, to name a few.
  — National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024