Sentence examples similar to priming and preening from inspiring English sources

On that measure, more primping and preening goes on in South Korea, Greece and Italy, as the chart below shows.

Gone are the days of glorified primping and preening.

Not standing and preening.

It was hardly a prototype for the ages: pining and preening get old.

All that posing and preening can be a brand-builder, she acknowledged.

Birds also engage in mutual bowing, trumpeting, and preening.

They rifle through the joint, picking and preening the refuse.

Our result is, therefore, consistent with a trade-off between immunity and preening in birds [ 25, 23].

Provocative Plucking and Preening.

They're also not pampered and preened.

Pelagic cormorants, double-crested cormorants, and Brandt's cormorants stretched their wings and preened.