Sentence examples for lifting a bird from inspiring English sources

The 10 min test was started by lifting a bird into the arena, in complete darkness, and turning on the light.

Consider these early lines from "Like Cuttings for a Wreath of Praise and Ransom": The landscape opening as if no end to it, a longing anywhere for some resistance, some stop: the magnolia, its ring of bird-ravaged seed-cones, the birds themselves, a wind lifting a collar of feathers at the neck of each -- stiff courtiers, Elizabethan.

He didn't even lift a finger to save Big Bird.

The fryer is often part of a kit that includes a propane burner and regulator, a deep fat thermometer, and a turkey rack or basket for lifting the bird in and out.

For years, the U.S. egg industry has been telling us that there is no connection between salmonella outbreaks and the practice of cramming layer hens into cages so small the birds can't lift a single wing.

But she was complaining about the Chinese boy who sometimes sits on a crate full of blue pigeons in front of a poultry and fish shop in Chinatown and, lifting out a fluttering bird at a time, cuts its throat while its wings stretch fanwise across his forearm.

Around six glorious minutes into Laila Part 2 a sweeping guitar part sails in and lifts the whole piece like a warm current lifts a sea bird, it's an extraordinarily beautiful moment in an album liberally blessed with them.

Lifting the birds out with tongs, I plated them with roasted sweet potatoes.

This normally consists of a series of wing beats to lift the bird, then folding in the wings and gliding in an arc before repeating the pattern.

The service crashed frequently, prompting the display of the notorious "fail whale" — a flock of Twitter birds lifting up a cheery cetacean, accompanied by an apology.

Carefully lift the bird and strew the remaining herbs over the vegetables.