BEAK in a Sentence

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For BEAK, below is one of 41 sentences:
The first moment he set his dew-bright black eye on Dickon he knew he was not a stranger but a sort of robin without beak or feathers.

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 Meanings and Examples of BEAK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
beak
 n.  nib ;horny projecting mouth of a bird
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  He had a tiny plump body and a delicate beak, and slender delicate legs.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Swiftly something flew across the wall and darted through the trees to a close grown corner, a little flare of red-breasted bird with something hanging from its beak.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  Once when Dickon was so busy that he did not answer him at first, Soot flew on to his shoulders and gently tweaked his ear with his large beak.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Colin was almost too late but he just caught sight of him, the flash of red-breasted bird with something in his beak.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  The first moment he set his dew-bright black eye on Dickon he knew he was not a stranger but a sort of robin without beak or feathers.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  He gave the noisy bird a knock on his beak, and walked on.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
8  Besides, they are afraid of my beak; and I have always a witty answer at hand.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
9  But the duck swam quickly to her, seized her head in its beak and drew her into the water, and there the old witch had to drown.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FUNDEVOGEL
10  An obliging thrush hopped across the lawn; a coil of pinkish rubber twisted in its beak.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
11  "Good morning, sir," a hollow voice boomed at him from a beak of paper.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
12  He took it and crumpled it into a beak over his nose.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
13  There was a bird with a straw in its beak; and the straw dropped.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 8
14  And be it so," said Cedric; "and let him tear me with beak and talons, ere my tongue say one word which my heart doth not warrant.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  She sort of got harder and harder to bring off, and she'd sort of tear at me down there, as if it was a beak tearing at me.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence:
1  He can be recognized by his aquiline nose, curved like the beak of the eagle.
2  You finished the goose, with the bones and the beak; Pray how did you manage to do it?
3  Size, shape, and strength of chick beak is impacted when the gene is manipulated.
4  The bird is recognizable by its flattened beak.
5  The male bird has a red spot on its beak.
6  The bird picked a hole in the ice with its beak.
7  It has eight lashing arms and two slashing tentacles growing straight out of its head and it's got serrated suckers that can latch on to the slimiest of prey and it's got a parrot beak that can rip flesh.