Sentence examples for wintering from inspiring English sources
verb
Present participle of winter
Deep below the once purple but now wintering and dormant fields of Provençal lavender, something is rotten.
Nor is the birds' wintering range known possibly the Philippines, Borneo and perhaps Myanmar.
But the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation FAOAO) in Rome spoke this week of a new peril: migrating birds could bring the disease back after wintering in Nigeria, where an outbreak was confirmed last week at a farm near Kaduna.
In the early 19th century the American whaling fleet began wintering in Hawaii, and the islands were visited with mounting frequency by explorers, traders, and adventurers.
Among those wintering in the park are waterfowl from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, China, and Siberia, including species such as gadwalls, shovellers, common teals, tufted ducks, pintails, white spoonbills, Asian open-billed storks, Oriental ibises, and the rare (possibly extinct) Siberian crane.
The aggressive and abundant starlings occupy cavities before other species have returned from wintering grounds and successfully defend the holes against native species.
American golden plover, wintering in the Pacific, fly directly from the Aleutian Islands (southwest of Alaska) to Hawaii, the 3,300-kilometre 3,300-kilometre 2,050-mile 2,050-miles and more than 250,000 wing beats.
Cuadrilla said it was wrapping up operations at a test location in St Annes, Lancashire, because of concerns related to over-wintering birds in the Ribble Estuary.
Swans and over-wintering dark-bellied Brent geese nudge around among the reeds and fringes of the river.
Down in the sands, as the tide retreats you can still spot over-wintering and passing birds, such as the curlew.
Since then, in increasingly magisterial books of poetry Wintering Out (1972), North (1975), Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), The Spirit Level (1996)—Heaney has become arguably the greatest poet Ireland has produced, eventually winning the Nobel Prize for Literature (1995).
