Sentence examples for deceased birds from inspiring English sources

For £3.50-an-hour, I pull the feathers out of recently deceased birds.

The deceased birds were Humboldt penguins which had been moved to a holding area earlier this week, after renovations on their habitat began.

His father, on the other hand, accustomed to packaged chicken cutlets and soul-food takeout, was so overcome with nausea from what he called the otherworldly smell and "squealing" of the deceased birds that he ran outside for fresh air, Bible in hand.

Death is soon enough everywhere in Rapture, as deceased birds begin to litter the roads as the story develops, but "you" cannot die.

Each of the outbreaks in these groups was officially announced after the discovery of deceased birds, which may mean that some of the outbreaks occurred earlier than they were officially reported.

Tissue samples from deceased birds were collected and used for RT-PCR to determine tissue distribution of the virus.

Monty Python's dead parrot sketch begins with the premise of a pet shop owner selling a customer a deceased bird.

The parrot of the title is a deceased bird in a cage – a metaphor for the bejewelled courtesan that Tully becomes – which she learns to resurrect to bursts of flight.

Affectingly, Haupt describes "crow funerals" in which a "stillness" settles around a deceased bird as other crows "cluster about the crow in perfect silence," and records evidence of crows at play — basking in the sun, "sprawled on one side with their wings hanging open... like black-feathered Madame Bovarys" or catching falling cherry blossoms.

Place the deceased bird in the ground.

The idea of reincarnation does appear delightfully consoling at first, raising images of the deceased as birds or butterflies.