Sentence examples for black neck from inspiring English sources

STEAMER: An oval soft-shell clam, with a thin, white-streaked shell and a slightly protruding, rubbery black neck.

"The public can understand that, say, swans or black neck cranes are precious, but sparrows or crows aren't seen as special, so why not eat them?" she said.

GEODUCK: Like the steamer, the geoduck (pronounced gooey duck) gapes, and its extralong, serpentine black neck, or siphon, protrudes from the shell.

Penn's subject — as in "Woman with Long Black Neck (Jean Patchett)," New York, 1951 — is not performance but inner poise, and the dignity of appearances became his central theme.

On this occasion, having slipped illegally from her horse, she snatched a muleta and sword from the waiting novillero, raised the sword as the bull charged, and then dropped it, instead caressing the huge black neck as it hurtled past.

Oh, he's a hardy soul," called out one of the assembled, Dave Jordan, a pair of ski goggles hanging around his black neck gaiter and a headlamp shining from his helmet.

Now, there is hardly a community that is free of the gray and brown birds with their elegant black necks and white markings underneath.

George Malibirr's "Magpie Goose," a painting done mainly in golden yellow, white and black, is a highly sophisticated, patternlike portrayal of a group of these creatures, their long black necks and black tails set off by crosshatched white and yellow bodies against a crosshatched ground of what might be reeds and water.

In his final book, King would write that, "the suburbs are white nooses around the black necks of the cities".

Beth Boleman, mother of Elizabeth Boleman-Herring, wearing a black neck-bow: seated, second row, far right.

The suburbs are white nooses around the black necks of the cities.