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Example sentences for "aerie"

Lexicographically close words:
aeration; aere; aereal; aerial; aerials; aeriform; aeris; aero; aerobic; aerodrome
  1. He stayd not for more bidding, but away 2 Was suddein vanished out of his sight: The Northerne wind his wings did broad display 4 At his commaund, and reared him vp light From off the earth to take his aerie flight.

  2. So thick the aerie crowd Swarm'd and were straitn'd; till the Signal giv'n, Behold a wonder!

  3. And he had not vouchsafed another word until, over the desert glare, his cousin's aerie had blazed out, beating back the molten sun-rays.

  4. Very often a ledge close to the aerie is used as a larder, where the old birds put their victims as soon as they are caught, and leave them until they are wanted.

  5. Eagles have been recorded on both sides of the Atlantic as using the same aerie for nearly a century without interruption; and in such cases the structure often becomes of prodigious size.

  6. The simile here begun before the eagle is mentioned, and the minstrel's thoughts are spoken of as born in the aerie of his brain, high above his companions.

  7. An eagle builds its aerie or nest upon a crag or inaccessible height above ordinary birds.

  8. This very hour may be thy last, That aerie prove thy tomb.

  9. She bids, to mark the Eagle's flight, Young Donald watch below, While she will mount the craggy height, And to his aerie go.

  10. A peasant in Ireland kept himself and the whole of his family for an entire season by robbing the Eaglets in a neighbouring aerie of the stores of food which were brought to them by the parent birds.

  11. Its aerie is about two yards wide, and is generally situated in the forests bordering on the sea or great lakes.

  12. Quelele, who had had the superior advantage of a wider view from his aerie on the cliff top, bowed his arms in the shape of a ball and waved a hand to the west.

  13. Quelele he sent back to the aerie with orders not to shoot until he heard shots from the whites; the Indian's fire from the rear, once Urgo and his men had passed the rocky portals, would throw the rurales into confusion.

  14. One aerie with proportion ne'er discloses The eagle and the wren.


  15. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aerie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.