Sentence examples for act of a bird from inspiring English sources

The apparently simple act of a bird flying from a tree to the ground illustrates the complexity of directional control.

This double-character portrait, rendered in lurid chiaroscuro, takes up almost all the first act of "Sweet Bird".

I also bought flowers today, a big gorgeous bouquet of them, in a flagrant act of flipping the bird at fate.

This familiar little bone is shaped somewhere between a U and a V sits in the upper chest of a bird and acts to help support this area of the body under the strains of flight.

I went off into the bush by myself, and my brother secretly followed and caught me in the act of shooting a sitting bird at four or five yards.

"I'm scared of a bird".

Draw a form of a bird.

She describes the seductive lure of fossilized stones depicting "bees caught in the act of sipping nectar, birds frozen in midflight, a spider consuming a fly".

Entitled The Cypriot Songbird Massacre, the 26-minute film is available on YouTube, and its young presenter, Ben Ferguson, talks to all those concerned, from conservationists and local people to a senior policeman and even to a trapper, who is filmed in the act of catching the birds.

Even the federal government's Glass Ceiling Commission, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1991 to bird-dog the remaining boys-only boardrooms, had to admit that women are getting along all right.

In this painting, he portrays the birds frozen in act of foraging, a technique he honed from observing birds where they lived.