Sentence examples for * beak in from inspiring English sources

The picoroco, or beak in the rock, is aptly named.

You gotta wet your beak in the climate-change trough!

This is showbiz, after all, an often corrupt and occasionally lucrative business where everybody gets to dip a beak in.

Why has the serpent – which last terrorised the locality with its leathery wings and snapping beak in 1669 – returned?

Then suddenly a goldcrest lands, nervously hopping back and forth, dipping its beak in for a drink.

A business type would have said that to sell books through her book club's endorsement without dipping your beak in was silly.

Some scientists still hold that the magnetic sensing cells will be found in the beak, or in birds' eyes, but working backward from the brain will help sort it out, says Dickman. "We now have a tool to study this with.

Examples include sexual preferences for ecologically selected body size and color pattern in fish or beak size in birds [ 20].

In addition, and taking into account that variation of beak size in granivore birds is greater in the absence of competition [2], the highest variances detected in bill size in the Azores populations among all Macaronesian populations [14], support the absence of character displacement in Azores (Figure S5).

First beak (master, in Eton-speak) comes in mournfully eating a custard cream.

A study by Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant of Princeton University shows the rapid evolution of beak size in one of the finches in response to competition.