Sentence examples for owl about from inspiring English sources

7. "He has to stop drawing his eyebrows together too closely to convey seriousness; it makes him look like an owl about to pounce".

The owl, about $40, is not the only device meant to scare on the market, but it may be the creepiest.

A giant barn owl, about twice the size of the modern Tyto alba, inhabited Puerto Rico during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago).

"He has to stop drawing his eyebrows together too closely to convey seriousness; it makes him look like an owl about to pounce".

On this particular morning, with her enormous eyes magnified and peering intently behind round glasses, she had the air of a cute green owl about to rob a bank.

The owl, about two feet tall with a white bib and large ear tufts, glared straight ahead with big, cat-like eyes before silently flying to a nearby tree branch.

It appears that the pharaoh eagle-owl differs about 3.8% in mitochondrial DNA from the Eurasian eagle-owl, well past the minimum genetic difference to differentiate species of 1.5%.

The undeserved "lazy" stigma given to night owls comes about due to the early birds of the world never seeing you at your most productive because, ironically, they're often fast asleep by the time you get going.

The plan would cover not only northern spotted owls (there are about 160 owl sites on the land) but many other species, including marbled murrelets, Umpqua River cutthroat trout, American peregrine falcons, Columbian white-tailed deer, bald eagles, Aleutian Canada geese and Oregon chubs.

Not for him the niceties of a moody hero who wonders about owls, about art, about light and dark, right and wrong; Mr. Cannell comes up with an L.A.P.D. detective, Shane Scully, who breaks up a marital dispute as the book starts and winds up killing Ray Molar, he of the "pig eyes" and "simian brow," simply because Ray was in turn trying to kill his wife, Barbara, with a nightstick.

At the garden, however, the words "Thain Family Forest" are slipped into signs about black oaks, hemlocks and hillside blueberries ("a favorite of birds and small mammals in the Thain Family Forest"); about vernal pools and great horned owls; about mound formations and forest layering; and even about snags, as standing dead trees are called, which help "reveal the Thain Family Forest's great age".