How to Use osprey in a Sentence

osprey

noun

• And would the osprey even want to return to this place?
  — Alexander Aciman, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2021
• At the tip of a dead tree an osprey looked out over the distant lake.
  — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Above me, an osprey circles calmly in the sky, scanning the blue for a meal.
  — Southern Living, 12 July 2020
• Terns and laughing gulls raced by, and a lone osprey with a fish in its claws soared overhead.
  — Jordan Salama, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2020
• The power company sent thoughts to both the fish's family and to the osprey who dropped the fish.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 16 Aug. 2023
• An osprey lifts from its skeletal hull to glide low across the water.
  — Lizzie Pook, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
• The osprey father sat with a fish in its talons waiting until the young were safely back in the nest.
  — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2021
• Not just bald eagles, but fish-eaters like osprey and blue heron also once died out on the James.
  — Tamara Dietrich, baltimoresun.com, 13 July 2019
• The osprey is also far from the most keep-Oregon-weird symbol.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 14 July 2017
• By June 7, the osprey was rebuilding its nest atop the platform.
  — Jenny Berg, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
• Bald eagles soar overhead and ospreys dive to prey on fish.
  — Bennet Goldstein, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2023
• The deck faces the rear yard and wetlands, not to mention deer, fox, osprey and sometimes sandhill cranes.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2019
• The balloon in the osprey’s nest was mostly shredded, but the ribbon was tangled on the three-week-old bird’s legs.
  — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 21 June 2018
• Active osprey and bald eagle nests can be seen from this spot.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 4 May 2018
• An osprey sits on the railing of Shasta Dam at Shasta Lake.
  — Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2018
• An osprey hovered and dived into the still water and emerged with a black crappie clutched in its talons.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 May 2018
• In the early fall, ospreys, hawks and eagles swoop in, screeching and hungry.
  — Adam Erace, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
• Overhead, a pair of osprey circled in the mist, searching for breakfast.
  — Michael Gordon, charlotteobserver, 28 May 2018
• Or a bald eagle, osprey or loon, a moose, deer or fox, or any of numerous other types of wildlife.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
• The morning started with the cries of a pair of courting osprey wheeling and diving overhead.
  — William Sargent, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2020
• Keep an eye out for osprey, egrets, blue herons, bald eagles, dolphins, and manatees, which all call the area home.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2023
• The osprey, once nearly wiped out by DDT, has rebounded.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 29 May 2018
• At Ocean Beach, runners stopped to marvel at an osprey hovering over the surfers.
  — Curbed, 10 May 2023
• Viewers can spot swans, herons, egrets, sandhill cranes, muskrats, mink, deer, bald eagles, osprey and more.
  — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2017
• 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
• When the lake turns over in the fall, the result is that the fish can emerge in the top 20 or 30 feet, often chasing shad on the surface, within close range of eagles, ospreys and anglers.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• But Shelter Island was in Mr. Pedersen’s bones, given his many years on the island — the salty sea air, the tall beach grass, the sand beneath the osprey nests.
  — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 30 July 2019
• Also, take a short jaunt to see the giant osprey nest on Googins Island, which has been an active nest for many years.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• Scotland's T in the Park at Strathallan Castle this year has been postponed due to protected osprey nests at the site.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 26 May 2017
• Lafferty spots an osprey in the distance, and trains his spotting scope to watch as the fishing hawk rips apart and bolts down chunks of a mullet held in its talons.
  — Kenneth R. Weiss, Discover Magazine, 20 Dec. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024