Sentence examples for pair of turtles from inspiring English sources

A pair of turtles attempted mating, the knocking of their shells audible under the water.

The image that often arises when people speak of Pan and Zhang is that of a pair of turtles.

As near as dammit a pair of turtle doves.

Kelsey Grammer picked up a rendering of Santa, and Mr. Kimmel gave Mr. Grammer's wife, Kayte, a pair of turtle doves as a wedding present.

a raven chases off a pair of turtle doves from a pine tree bough to see the tracks drilling through the woods.

In 1970 there were probably about 250,000 pairs of turtle doves nesting in Britain every summer (they spend the winter in Africa, like swallows), but now there are only between 8,000 and 9,000 pairs and the bird is halving in numbers every six years.

[I remember stopping by one year during spring break and finding Miriam in a lawn chair out on the fringe of the ball field, wrapped in an old sleeping bag, keeping watch over a pair of nesting turtles while a pickup game went on behind her.

There are game boards, also of carved stone, including one in the shape of a coiled rattlesnake, and numerous wafer-thin hand-size stone palettes for mixing makeup whose minimally inflected silhouettes nonetheless intimate various animals, including fish, lions and a pair of mating turtles.

In saltwater tanks six feet in diameter, the pairs of sea turtles swim, rest, come to the surface to breathe and even eat bits of squid.

They also found five intimately associated pairs of Allaeochelys turtles, perhaps mating when they died.

The other two turtles — a pair of three-toed box turtles — live in a redwood pen the couple built in the backyard.