Sentence examples for flock of swans from inspiring English sources

Currently, it is a cluster of reeds frequented by a flock of swans.

Another group of construction workers in Wallasey, Merseyside used a digger to help the RSPCA rescue a flock of swans.

Arising in the morning, he was moved by the sight of a flock of swans on the Liffey river.

The white-and-gray wallpaper is transformed into different colors, often green and blue, by Natasha Katz's spectacular lighting, and James Buckhouse's projections introduce a moving flock of swans on those walls.

CRAMMED into this year's field of 10 best picture Oscar nominees are British aristocrats, Volvo-driving Los Angeles lesbians, a flock of swans, a gaggle of Harvard computer geeks, clans of Massachusetts fighters and Missouri meth dealers, as well as 19th-century bounty hunters, dream detectives and animated toys.

I'd just be marvelling at a turn of phrase ("the earthed lightning of a flock of swans"... "catch the heart off guard and blow it open") and allowing it to sink in, and he'd be a couple of verses away already.

No ballet of the 19th century goes further into true tragedy: Odette the Swan Queen takes heroic responsibility for herself and also her flock of swan-maidens.

Hard bargaining would be needed to whittle down this year's eye-popping $86,608.51 tab to give the gifts repetitively — including several flocks of swans — if the carol's verses were scrupulously followed.

Starring the Argentinian ballerina Marianela Nuñez in the hugely challenging dual-role of Odette/Odile, with Vadim Muntagirov as Prince Siegfried, the ballet is a showcase for the whole Company, who dazzle in full royal finery during the ball at the palace and in delicate feathered tutus as flocks of swans in the unforgettable scenes at the moonlit lake.

But that price is valid only if the costly flock of trumpeter swans — the song calls for seven swans a-swimming — are struck from the gift list, which is compiled every year by PNC Wealth Management in Pittsburgh as an amusing way to track the annual cost of living.

"Flock of Black Swans," Project Syndicate.