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How to use flamingo in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun, adjective

Flamingo means a wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes. Example: “Flamingo tongues were considered a delicacy in Ancient Rome.”

Examples of flamingo by meaning

nounA wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.

  • After Nakuru the light remains only long enough to see the Lake Nakuru, away to the south, with its fringe of pink flamingos, and as the darkness falls the old main line to Kisumu branches to the left.1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 266

More sentences with flamingo

  • Flamingo tongues were considered a delicacy in Ancient Rome.From the entry flamingo tongue
  • She pushed the flamingo floatie to the opposite end of the pool in record time.2019, Alyssa Milano, with Debbie Rigaud, chapter 2, in Project Middle School (Hope; 1), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry floaty
  • The life history of flamingos and the banded stilt of Australia are astonishingly alike.1999, Alan Feduccia, The Origin and Evolution of Birds, page 199. From the entry banded stilt
  • Flamboyances of flamingos are a feature of the lake.2024, Anthony Ham, Travel Guide Tanzania, Lonely Planet. From the entry flamboyance
  • Baby lesser flamingos, known as flaminglets, are initially gray in color because they haven't adopted the pink diet.2024, Geo Rutherford, Spooky Lakes, page 75. From the entry flaminglet
  • A pair of greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) has reappeared at a wetlands in Chiku, Tainan, attracting photographers and birdwatchers.2016 October 20, Phillip Charlier, “Flamingos Appear in Taiwan: Birdwatchers Flock to Tainan”, in Taiwan English News, archived from the…. From the entry chiku
  • But he loves taking pictures of all critters, he said, and noticed a stand of flamingos wading in a salt pond.2014 March 12, Matt Davenport, “Carmel man snaps photo of rare black flamingo”, in Monterey Herald, archived from the original on 01 Aug…. From the entry stand
  • Tall and lissom, she was sheathed from the bosom downwards in flamingo silk, and she was liberally festooned with emeralds.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry lissom
  • According to what you say about the shells, there ought to be a thousand flamingos feeding in this very swash at this instant.1924, Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas, page 1062. From the entry swash
  • He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300. From the entry epithalamium
  • The gnome-napping continued unsolved for over a month, until one day, they were discovered in the soccer fields, lined up for a kickoff against a team of pink plastic flamingoes.2015, Beverly Allen, For Whom the Bluebell Tolls, →ISBN. From the entry gnome-napping

Meaning of flamingo

  1. noun A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.
  2. noun A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
  3. adjective Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

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Questions about flamingo in a sentence

How do you use flamingo in a sentence?
Flamingo is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Flamingo tongues were considered a delicacy in Ancient Rome.”
What is a short sentence with flamingo?
“Flamboyances of flamingos are a feature of the lake.”
What does flamingo mean?
Flamingo means a wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.

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