How to Use heron in a Sentence

heron

noun

• The heron would drop the snake and stab it again with its beak.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 May 2024
• The heron had caught the snake and was trying to eat it.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 May 2024
• Both sang at the same time, the herons with their squawks and the ducks with their mouse-like cries.
  — Emilie C. Harting, Philly.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• This species is the most likely small white heron to show up.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 July 2018
• Each spring, up to 10 herons raise their chicks high in the branches of a tree near the old ranch lodge.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024
• A few weeks ago, I was made aware of a pair of green heron chicks that had lost their nest.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 26 May 2017
• Startled, a heron flew up and was swallowed by the night.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2019
• Then, with my neck bent forwards like a heron, my eyes are fixed on a screen.
  — Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• Horicon Marsh's Four Mile Island was once home to the state's largest colony of heron nests.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2023
• A large bronze statue of a great blue heron, which is owned by the city of St. Paul, has been stolen from its perch on the East Side.
  — Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 3 Apr. 2017
• This is very small heron that lives hidden in cattails and reeds.
  — Jacob Job, Scientific American, 16 July 2021
• A night heron was hunched like a little old man, waiting for scraps.
  — Robin Abcarian, latimes.com, 5 July 2017
• Egrets and herons pluck meals from the shoreline and fly by on their way to nesting islands.
  — Ben Abramson, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2017
• Dr. Beach noted the blue heron and other birds that mingle in the mangroves.
  — NOLA.com, 26 May 2017
• That harsh call, right there, was from another heron, a Green Heron.
  — Jacob Job, Scientific American, 16 July 2021
• The granite canopy is surmounted by a bronze heron, a bird that spends much of its life in the water.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
• The heron is dead in an instant, and two other lions rush into the frame.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 28 June 2018
• Paddling on the water is the best way to explore the springs and spy herons, turtles and other wildlife.
  — Tara Bradley Connell, Orlando Signature, 28 July 2017
• Before long the classroom had as many owls, herons, and other birds as kids.
  — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 22 Mar. 2016
• All of the windows look out on the river, abundant with trout and irresistible to herons and moorhens.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2018
• This fall, yellow leaves and dry grasses draped the ponds as herons picked over water.
  — Sam Brasch, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• More than 300 species have been spotted here, from egrets and herons to grebes and golden eagles.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 May 2018
• Lake Renwick Preserve features a 200-acre lake that's home to herons and egrets.
  — Vickie Snow Jurkowski, Daily Southtown, 23 June 2017
• One young heron that hatched later in the summer is still lingering around the zoo.
  — Maddie Ellis, Chicago Tribune, 11 Dec. 2022
• During the late spring and early summer, Ibis Pond is a hotspot to see species of breeding herons and egrets.
  — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2023
• No sooner does Mahito arrive than a heron swoops past the boy’s head.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• During the late spring and early summer, Ibis Pond here is a hotspot to see species of breeding heron and egrets.
  — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 5 June 2022
• Egrets and herons in Kansas also went to roost according to a 1994 study.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Mar. 2024
• Start your morning with a quick 1.8-mile run around the loop in Uptown’s Audubon Park, filled with herons, egrets, and centuries-old oaks.
  — Cheney Gardner, Outside Online, 2 May 2018
• Added bonus: sightings of all sorts of songbirds, plus ducks, hawks, great blue herons and (rarely) bald eagles.
  — Lynn Horsley, kansascity, 26 May 2017

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024