Sentence examples for cross owl from inspiring English sources

When the historian David Starkey griped that his "usually quite pretty" peers had taken to posing on their book jackets as though the books were "historical Mills & Boon" — British bodice-rippers — Worsley told the papers, "If it wasn't insulting and degrading to judge historians by their looks, I would point out that Dr Starkey looks like a cross owl in the pictures on his own book".

If you've never encountered the Owlarbear (a cross between an owl and a polar bear), you're in for a treat.

Life of Pi, described by one newspaper as "a cross between The Owl and the Pussycat and The Jungle Book", is a meditative fable about an Indian boy shipwrecked on a raft with a tiger and various other animals.

Its design was a cross between Bubo the Owl in 1981's Clash of the Titans and the spooky-fake crows in Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" video.

It's a taxidermy nightmare: a cross between a bat and an owl.

Martel's novel, described as a cross between The Jungle Book and 'The Owl and the Pussycat', was a departure more in style than substance.

CT image quality parameters were evaluated with two different software resources, CTQA_cp and Catphan QA (Image Owl, Inc., Greenwich, NY, USA), in order to cross-check the obtained results and validate CTQA_cp results with a reference.

However, prior studies of eagle-owl distribution have indicated a strong reluctance to cross large bodies of water in the species.

Substitute Sergiu Bus put the Owls ahead when he scrambled home Marnick Vermijl's cross from close range.

The Owls took the lead when Lavery converted Kieran Lee's cross, then three minutes later Leon Best tapped in their second from a corner.

Goalscorer McCann then diverted Callum McManaman's low cross wide of the Wednesday goal before May turned the contest in the Owls' favour in the 71st minute.