"bird" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Food is taken mainly from the ground and even in shallow water where the bird will hover and pluck food items out of the water with its feet.
- Hot on his heels ran the boar and his family of wild pigs, while the birds pecked and plucked at Maggie's hair.
- The curious bird usually plucked at the beads down the sleeve or the leather thongs at the end, but now he pulled the sleeve itself.
- "Now Now" The bird walked up the old man's arm to his chest, and plucked a hair from his beard.
- Broody birds often pluck feathers from their chest and abdomen, using them to cover the eggs.
- Occasionally, young birds pluck their feathers during the winter.
- A quaint custom this, of having birds pluck cards and deliver them to customers, so that each could read an individual fortune.
- He was thick and red, and if he caught a bird would pluck it alive and make it run about bare.
- The birds evaded the lances with a trained skill and plucked the defenders from under their hopeless shelters, like robins pulling worms out of the ground.
- Jon, Heln, get the fire started and the bird plucked.
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