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Discover Ludwig"a broken wing" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to describe a literal or figurative situation where something or someone has suffered an injury or setback. For example, "The bird had a broken wing that kept it from flying away."
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Then she found an owl with a broken wing.
The plane however suffered a broken wing and lost a propeller blade.
For all the virtuosity, it is too often a broken wing.
Then she was summoned to help a pigeon with a broken wing.
She was very protective and treated me like a bird with a broken wing.
More of an ugly duckling with a broken wing than a black swan.
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When threatened, they hide and stay quiet while the parents perform a broken-wing display to distract the predator.
Eggs and duckling may be preyed on by mammals, birds and reptiles, although one parent may try to distract a potential predator with a broken-wing display while the other adult leads the ducklings away.
When flushed from the nest, an incubating parent may perform a nest-distraction display, or a broken-wing display, fluttering on the ground as if injured, then flying away when the predator approaches it.
Like many writers, the idea behind Stormdancer started with a dream Kristoff had of a griffin with broken wings, and a little boy trying to teach it to fly.
Rosberg sustained a punctured right rear tyre and Ricciardo a broken front wing.
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