Sentence examples for outstretched neck from inspiring English sources

Both are hoping for rain and even the horse appeared to be sniffing the air for a sign of rain today, with outstretched neck and flaring nostrils.

One may be jealous of another being licked: she thrusts her head under the outstretched neck of the one licking, and butts upward till the licking stops.

"When it sees any object on the surface of the water," he wrote, "[it] descends from a great height… with the swiftness of an arrow; and at the instant of seizing with its long beak and outstretched neck, the floating morsel, it turns upwards, with extraordinary dexterity, by the aid of its forked tail, and its long, powerful wings".

Here, amid the tilting myrtle-hedged tombs, grow two of the mission's prize trees -- a Mexican fan palm so tall (it was measured at 82 feet back in 1980) that its fronds look like a tuft of parrot feathers sprouting from the outstretched neck of a brontosaurus and a fantastically gnarled and ropy-trunked vintage 1890 Moreton Bay fig whose canopy covers most of the cemetery in dark green shade.

As his animations reveal, by sweeping its outstretched neck, Apatosaurus would have explored, and devoured food, over a huge space.

George took design cues from sketches of bodybuilders and football players, incorporating the starship equivalents of down-stretched, threatening arms and muscular shoulders, together with what looked like shoulder pads and a chin guard on the ship's outstretched neck.

The sun bittern walks gracefully with slow precise steps, its neck outstretched.

One of its lecterns is a stork with wings arched and neck outstretched.

The ibis froze, barely breathing, its neck outstretched and black bead eyes alert, then slowly turned to face the fox.

The largest of them, the South Island giant moa, weighed five hundred pounds, and with its neck outstretched could reach a height of twelve feet.

To escape detection, chicks as well as adults may lie on the ground with neck outstretched, a habit that may have given rise to the mistaken belief that the ostrich buries its head in the sand when danger threatens.