Sentence examples for gooney bird from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of several albatrosses, especially the black-footed albatross (Diomedea nigripes) and the Laysan albatross, that dwell primarily on islands in the Pacific Ocean, often near naval bases.
Less provocative than her Newbery winners, it's also more serious than the Krupnik and Gooney Bird books.
Babbage believes the Gooney Bird was one of a kind unrepeatable, because today's more competitive times demand complexity in design, where once simplicity sufficed.
The "gooney" bird made several passes over the grassy island hillsides at relatively slow speed, treating the researchers to great views at close range.
This informal place offers soups (cheesy crab, $3), salads ($3 to $6) and sandwiches ($6 to $8) that are playfully named for birds (Gooney Bird).
ONE of the first jobs Babbage had as a young engineer was to help design a modern equivalent of the Douglas DC-3 airliner, known as the Dakota in Britain and (for unfathomable reasons) the Gooney Bird by allied pilots during the second world war.
Her two series of lighthearted adventures for younger readers about Anastasia Krupnik and her brother, Sam, number 13 books to date, and her other two series (about the Tate siblings and a high-spirited girl called Gooney Bird) add another five volumes to an already large oeuvre.
On cocktail parties: A hundred standing people smiling and talking to one another, nodding like gooney birds.
They were once commonly known as goonie birds or gooney birds, particularly those of the North Pacific.
Bird within bird within bird.
