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How to use eagle in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Eagle means any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision. Example: “I got an eagle in the third hole.”

Examples of eagle by meaning

nounA score of two under par for a hole.

  • I got an eagle in the third hole.

More sentences with eagle

  • The little fairy flew home on the back of her friend, the giant eagle.From the entry fly
  • The eagle and the bolt of lightning are attributes of Jove.From the entry attribute
  • He won't go outside, lest he be eaten by those ravenous eagles.From the entry lest
  • Rarely do you ever find an eagle this far up the river.From the entry rarely
  • The bald eagle is a denizen of the northern part of the state.From the entry denizen
  • The lone eagle swooped down into the lake, snatching its prey, a small fish.From the entry swoop
  • He made his reputation as a legal eagle as a prosecutor before entering private practice.From the entry legal eagle
  • The eagle flew off into the wide blue sky.From the entry into
  • Bald eagles are an uncommon sighting in this state.From the entry uncommon
  • The eagle homed in for the kill.From the entry home in
  • You're dressing up as a canary? Can't you find something with a little more meat on its bones, like an eagle?From the entry meat on one's bones
  • Despite being compellingly photogenic, many eagles are difficult photographic targets, particularly when there is bright sunlight.2021, Peter Cavanagh, “1. Eagles”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry photogenic
  • A convocation of eagles around the four corners of the army field flew in.2021, Poojitha Reddy Gosula, The Girl Who Reads Her Past Six Lives: She Is The Army-Chief, Notion Press. From the entry convocation
  • The Thunderbird, one of the most powerful symbols of Indigenous American mythology, borrows heavily from eagle features.2021, Peter Cavanagh, “1. Eagles”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry thunderbird
  • He had blond hair, blue eyes, and wore a leather jacket with an eagle on the back.2014 March 26, Matthew Quaine Thompkins, “Hide the Gun”, in The Travels of the Black Raven, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 249. From the entry All-American
  • The black imperial double eagle is better known and still features on the Albanian national flag.2011, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire 1495-1806, Macmillan International Higher Education, →ISBN, page 115. From the entry double eagle
  • America has its bald eagle and New Zealand has its kiwi, a flightless brown bird.2010, Alexander Elder, Straying from the Flock: Travels in New Zealand. From the entry flightless
  • Of the many different types the aetites or eagle stone was probably the best known.2005, Barbara Freitag, Sheela-na-gigs: Unravelling an Enigma. From the entry eagle stone
  • There are rivers, mountains, forests, oceans, storms, cold weather, fierce winters, eagles, ravens, salmon, and snakes.2001, John Lindow, “The Historical Background”, in Handbook of Norse Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology), Santa Barbara, Calif.…. From the entry jotun
  • The bald eagle is the national bird of the United States.1999 August 15, Staca Hiatt, “Re: Anyone ever tried emu?”, in alt.support.diet.low-fat (Usenet). From the entry baldie
  • As large as a huge eagle, local tribesmen called it an Olitiau.1998, Robert Nicholson, Great Mysteries. From the entry olitiau
  • Eagle!”, the real-life monkeys hide in a bush where the eagle can’t reach them.1997 April 13, Keay Davidson, “Animals chatting amongst themselves?”, in San Francisco Examiner, 132nd year, number 15, San Francisco…. From the entry monkey-speak
  • With a huge rush of wind a swooping eagle dropped from out of the night sky.1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 142. From the entry swooping
  • In the front paddock a wedge-tailed eagle was skimming down the line of the fence-posts.1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 85. From the entry wedge-tailed eagle
  • But he know that fella eagle watchin' him and he know that fella is cunnin' fella.1986, Jack Davis, “No Sugar”, in Heiss & Minter, editor, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin, published 2008…. From the entry bungarra
  • No, that could scarcely be; eagles were not nightfowl, nor would one descend this close to humans.1980, Poul Anderson, Conan the Rebel, page 165. From the entry nightfowl
  • This congregation of eagles is reported to be the largest wintering group on the contiguous West Coast.1977, Classification of Portions of the Skagit River and Selected, United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region, page 12. From the entry congregation
  • A lion for the jungle or an eagle for all wingdom?1947, Norman Corwin, Untitled, and other radio dramas, page 19. From the entry wingdom
  • Longan’s snake-phobia wonder how the picture escaped the eagle eye of the censor, wonder what Mr.1930 August 17, “One of Midwest’s Big Newspapers Has Long-Standing Taboo on Snakes; But Kansas City Star Slips up Somewhere and Publishes…. From the entry snake-phobia
  • To this class belong the omens drawn from chance meetings with a hare, an eagle, etc.1920, Lewis Spence, An Encyclopædia of Occultism. From the entry apantomancy
  • "An eagle carrying off a hare, a figure flying with a wreath, a trophy of arms?1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry biga
  • The Pope declares me guilty of treason; he is using a flynet to catch an eagle.1911, Mandell Creighton, A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome. From the entry flynet
  • The Steller's Sea-eagle is the queen of all eagles.2021, Peter Cavanagh, “1. Eagles”, in 100 Flying Birds: Photographing the Mechanics of Flight, →ISBN, page 20. From the entry Steller's sea eagle
  • In Olgii, capital of Bayan-Olgii, the symbolic importance of the eagle to the ethnic identity of the Altai Kazakhs is clear.[2018 December 22, Hannah Reyes Morales, “At 14, She Hunts Wolves and Takes Selfies With Cherished Eagle in Mongolia”, in The New York…. From the entry Ölgii
  • Building walls are adorned with photos of eagle hunters, and the eagle is in the provincial coat of arms.[2018 December 22, Hannah Reyes Morales, “At 14, She Hunts Wolves and Takes Selfies With Cherished Eagle in Mongolia”, in The New York…. From the entry Ölgii
  • Eagle hunting almost vanished in the last century.[2018 December 22, Hannah Reyes Morales, “At 14, She Hunts Wolves and Takes Selfies With Cherished Eagle in Mongolia”, in The New York…. From the entry Bayan-Ölgii
  • A convocation of eagles noticed that the young bird was without his mother and took pity on him.2015, Prasenjeet Kumar, Quiet Phoenix 2: From Failure to Fulfilment: A Memoir of an Introverted Child. From the entry convocation
  • People think the American eagle is extinct.2013, Legrand Latney, GirlFriend! Who You Tellin, page 211. From the entry Al Bundy
  • Haast's eagle lived on the island undisturbed until people arrived and started eating all the moas they could find.2012, Matt Kaplan, The Science of Monsters, Simon & Schuster (Scribner), page 26. From the entry Haast's eagle

Meaning of eagle

  1. noun Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
  2. noun A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States.
  3. noun A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I of England.

Full definition of eagle

Questions about eagle in a sentence

How do you use eagle in a sentence?
Eagle is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I got an eagle in the third hole.”
What is a short sentence with eagle?
“People think the American eagle is extinct.”
What does eagle mean?
Eagle means any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eagle (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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