Sentence examples for birds stroke from inspiring English sources

The first 8 m of descent phases were excluded from dash detection because birds stroke their wings hardly to overcome buoyancy in the beginning of a dive and do therefore not represent the regular wing beat pattern.

Ms. Fleiss, gaunt and high-strung, is not nearly as likeable, but she does adore her colorful birds, stroking their heads and sometimes hugging one to her chest.

Then acceleration increases; this could be explained by birds stroking more easily with decreasing buoyancy.

Had visitors peeled off to peer through the windows of a hangar-like building, they might have seen Raymonde sitting on a stool pushing a feeding tube down the necks of birds while stroking their chests.

Dromaeosaurs constitute a small clade of theropod dinosaurs which exhibit some highly derived characteristics that they all share, especially modifications of the forelimb allowing for a flexible seizing function (which is thought to have been modified to create the bird "flight stroke").

Most birds detest being stroked.

("Sudden strokes of birds on slender branches. . . For a moment. . .

A few white brush strokes suggest birds gliding on the water.

I see a father who camps in the backyard with his girls, and teaches them about fish and birds and nature, who strokes their cheeks tenderly with the back of his hand when he puts them to bed.

Stroke your bird often and never leave its side.

Three episodes in, I am charmed by Shaw's way of sketching her character, Bridgette Bird, in brazen strokes of absurdity and delicate gestures of woe.