Sentence examples for pair of pigeons from inspiring English sources

A pair of pigeons roosting on the hay-beam that projects from the barn.

A pair of pigeons flew away: "Oh, there's a little movement".

With that pair of pigeons, she has eaten enough for two days, the poor old thing.... Well, it's not that I begrudge her the food".

Once their wishes were fulfilled, they would return to express their gratitude, often offering a pair of pigeons and releasing them into the sky.

The university had to reschedule assessments for 224 law and modern languages students, whose exams were stopped because of the noise from a pair of pigeons that had found their way into the examination hall.

Their saga is symbolized by the birds, who have three cameos: in the first, a pair of pigeons flies across the stage in a rush of avian joie de vivre; in the second, a lone pigeon flies out of the loft; and in the third, a pigeon perches on the man's shoulder as he pirouettes toward his love.

All pairs of pigeons were assigned to six different groups according to the kind and order of stimulus presentations during habituation and dishabituation (Table 1), resulting in a total of five pairs per group.

Tanner's wife, Kitty, is pregnant; he borrows a pair of racing pigeons to alert the nearest doctor, two hours away by horse trap.

Eight pairs of King pigeons were purchased from Kooyong Squab Producers (Moama, New South Wales).

In total we used 60 pairs of homing pigeons, split over two successive blocks of 30 pairs each.

We have previously shown that when pairs of homing pigeons have conflicting habitual routes, a transition from compromise to leadership occurs once the distance between the two birds' routes rises above a given threshold [ 9].