Sentence examples for immense bird from inspiring English sources
The immense bird angled away, landing on the ridge above.
This is an immense bird, pelagic and circumpolar, whose life is lived almost perpetually on the wing — on extraordinary wings, in fact, easily reaching 10 feet from tip to tip.
Pause at the early 18th-century Wat Sene (entry free), with its sweeping four-tiered roof, before heading to the 16th-century Wat Xieng Thong (entry £2), described by Auguste Pavie, the first French vice-consul in Luang Prabang, as "famous for its sloping curved roof with three levels overlapping one another, as if it were an immense bird preparing to fly".
Quite discouraged over some hang-up I was sure it was not going to happen, but driving from Laramie to Centennial on a windy day when the sky was filled with stretched-out laminar wave clouds I saw to the west, in the direction of the distant property, one cloud in the shape of an immense bird, the head and beak, the breast looming over the Rockies.
The manure deposited each day by the hens of such a factory is immense: 1,000,000 birds produce 250,000 lbs. of manure daily.
It must have been a curious sight: a young woman parading with her child, two white Maremmani (the local shepherd-dogs) and several Jack Russell Terriers, followed by two immense gray birds tottering behind.
[C13.] China's Immense Challenges in Bird Flu Fight Mass vaccinations of birds in China illustrate the high priority that the country has placed on preventing avian flu from leaping from birds to humans and the immense challenges involved, including the possibility that the rural health workers themselves might spread the virus.
On the dry seabird islands off the South American and South African coasts, immense deposits of bird droppings, rich in nitrogen and phosphorus, had accumulated over centuries.
The Nepalese avifaunal setup, he explained, is unusually attractive since, thanks in part to an abundant rainfall and the resulting large supply of insects, the palisade of the Himalayas stretching into the country harbors an immense quantity of birds so contentedly stuffed with caterpillars and crickets from one end of the year to the other that they never bother to migrate.
I like to think of him on that June morning in 1908 when, marooned on a sandy islet near the elbow of Cape Cod, his stranded skiff awash, his oars carried to sea, a stiff sou'wester blowing, drifting sand cutting his face, sea rising, he allowed himself to become utterly absorbed in "an immense concourse of birds" resting on the sands, most of them common terns.
