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Example sentences for "ospreys"

Lexicographically close words:
osmium; osmosis; osmotic; osnaburg; osprey; oss; ossa; ossements; osseous; osses
  1. They appeared to be full-grown and feathered; but it is a peculiarity of the young ospreys that they will remain in the nest, and be fed by the parent birds, until long after they might be considered able to shift for themselves.

  2. The ospreys had again gone out fishing, and, at this moment, one of them was seen to pounce down and take a fish from the water.

  3. The young ospreys flew heavily in short irregular circles, scanning the water with their inexperienced eyes for their first strike.

  4. Without moving from one's comfortable chair on the veranda of the hotel one may watch the ospreys soaring back and forth over the lake in quest of fish.

  5. A pair of ospreys nest near the mouth of Olson Creek.

  6. The grass lands near the river, where the sheep pastured, were Marzuk's favourite resort, because of the white ospreys that dwelt there.

  7. It is for this reason that Ospreys dislike the Bald Eagle.

  8. After they had learned to use their wings, the ospreys were allowed full liberty, nevertheless they continued to remain in the neighbourhood of Mr. Baynes's house, and became quite domesticated.

  9. It was not until they were five or six weeks old that the young ospreys entrusted themselves to their wings, and at the first attempt they, or rather one of them, performed an unbroken flight of several miles!

  10. Already I think I know where a pair of those big ospreys have their nest, and that ought to make a dandy picture, with one of the parent birds feeding the youngsters.

  11. Then came one of the ospreys with a big fish in its claws, and I began to get busy.

  12. Will was sitting astride the lowermost limb of an enormous tree standing about forty or fifty feet to the west of the one in which the nest of the ospreys could be plainly seen, close to the top.

  13. And like female ospreys they screamed in agony!

  14. The cormorants, however, did not have it all their own way; for, watching their opportunity, numbers of ospreys and pelicans incessantly splashed down among them to rob them of their prey.

  15. We learned from the beavers and the ospreys that a number of men had gone up the stream during the summer, and few had come back, so that now there must be many more of them in the district swept by the fire than there had been before.

  16. And the kingfishers and the ospreys told us the same things.

  17. There was a fringe of ice along the edges of the streams, and the kingfishers and the ospreys had both flown to where the waters would remain open throughout the year.

  18. Outside, the rain went on falling; the wind wailed through the firs where the ospreys found sanctuary on their flight south.

  19. And Garge's valorous deed was a marvellous miracle upsides wi' they young ospreys findin' their way to our clump o' firs.


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