Sentence examples for flocks off from inspiring English sources

Having parked its jeeps in the hills south of Hebron, a unit of soldiers checked the papers of the Palestinians who lived there, confiscated one or two, and then herded the people and their flocks off a hilltop which a nearby Jewish settlement, called Susiya, has been eyeing with a view to taking it over.

Bruce seniort-Brown, senior vice president of food safety and quality at Perdue Farms, which began weaning its flocks off antibiotics over a decade ago, pointed to his company's ability to "raise chickens effectively and safely" without antibiotics.

Information based on direct observations of Thin-billed prions is therefore limited to general descriptions such as 'disperses widely over Southern Ocean after breeding' (Carboneras 1992) and observations such as 'birds from the Falklands apparently move W, gathering in large flocks off W South America' (Carboneras 1992).

This information is neither consistent with regular observations of wintering flocks off the coast of Brazil (e.g., Neves et al. 2006) nor with stable isotope data suggesting that Thin-billed prions moult predominantly in Antarctic waters (Cherel et al. 2002, 2006; Quillfeldt et al. 2008).

Birds of a feather flock together and they are known to flock off rather fast at the sight of a predator.

After the war he invented Shufflewick on the spur of the moment for BBC radio, whose moral guardians rejected his vicar sketch after hearing the first line ("Ah good evening to you my flock, and now you can flock off").

Flock off and good riddance.

When I was 18, while the rest of my friends were flocking off to various universities to enlarge their brains, I opted to move to London, live in a squat, do a lot of drugs, and just generally disappoint my parents.

The urban influence is evident on Friday nights when noisy young people hang out on the streets near the convenience store, giving a big-city jolt to the timid flocks getting off the ferry from quiet Shelter Island Heights, half a mile away.

The Scene The urban influence is evident on Friday nights when noisy young people hang out on the streets near the convenience store, giving a big-city jolt to the timid flocks getting off the ferry from quiet Shelter Island Heights, half a mile away.

From there, the men and their flocks set off on foot through the mountains to reach the summer pastures located about 50 km away, while the women, elderly, and children remain in the temporary camp.