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• Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area.From the entry such as
• The young gulls were fed by their mother’s regurgitated food.From the entry regurgitate
• We dined seaside and watched the gulls' antics.From the entry seaside
• We dined oceanside and watched the gulls' antics.From the entry oceanside
• Or it can be a broken and burned gull feather littered along the runway.2022 April 14, Jason Bittel, “‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer”, in New York Times, archived from the original on…. From the entry snarge
• Gulls cawed and wheeled overhead, dropping splatty white cluster bombs on rooftops and pavements.2015, Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island, page 206. From the entry regular
• Goodness knows what those gulls eat, but it certainly keeps them regular.2015, Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island, page 206. From the entry regular
• He passed gulls, terns, cormorants as if they were standing still.2009, Robert V. S. Redick, The Red Wolf Conspiracy. From the entry wanderstar
• If not the Sabine’s, which species was the ancestor of the swallow-tailed gull?2002, John Kricher, “All the Birds Were So Tame”, in Galápagos (Smithsonian Natural History Series), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian…. From the entry Sabine's
• But they changed their tune when a Sabine’s gull emerged from a flock of unremarkables.2000, Ann Taylor, “Watching the Watchers”, in Watching Birds: Reflections on the Wing, Camden, Me.: Ragged Mountain Press / McGraw-Hill…. From the entry unremarkable
• A dozen species of murrs, turrs, puffins and gulls scream and wheel like demons.1992, Bernice Morgan, Random Passage, page 129. From the entry turr
• Pelicans fly below us with stiffly formal strokes, and gulls wheel and keen.1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 71. From the entry keen
• Little bass gull; sea pigeon (from its general figure and small size among gulls).1956, The Kingbird - Volumes 6-10, page 9. From the entry sea pigeon
• Damon pointed at the squabble of gulls.2016, Jenifer McVaugh, Our Lady of Happy Endings, Friesen Press. From the entry squabble
• Gulls keeper Scott Bevan kept his side in the game by saving a Tubbs penalty after Chris Zebroski was sent off.2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC. From the entry gulls
• “Behind the gulls comes the water,” he warned.1994, Ben Brooks, “And the Cat, Argyle”, in Bruce Smith, Catherine Gammon, editors, Cape Discovery: The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center…. From the entry franticity
• Gulls scatter before the blur of my insane kelpie.1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 4. From the entry kelpie
• The air was aswirl with screaming gulls.1993, Kim Stanley Robinson, Green Mars, New York: Bantam, Part 1. From the entry aswirl
• The gull subsists chiefly on limpets and other shell-bearing mollusks.1922 April, Robert Cushman Murphy, “South Georgia, An Outpost of the Antarctic”, in National Geographic, volume 41, number 4, page 429. From the entry break-bones
• Gulls seem to fear the great skua less than the Arctic one, and will sometimes mob and molest it.1901, Edmund Selous, Bird Watching, page 128. From the entry gullery
• Lestrade tugged his muffler closer about his throat and eyed a swoop of gulls balefully as they taunted their wingtips against the water.2025, Marcia Wilson, A Fanged and Bitter Thing, Andrews UK Limited. From the entry swoop
• There are great skuas here, nesting up on the higher ground, and I have seen them cruising above the gull colony further up the coast.2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 85. From the entry great skua
• The whistle boomed, gulls chattered overhead, the sticky air was filled with a bilgey, hot-doggy smell, punctuated by the almost putrid sweetness of honey-roasted nuts.2006, NancyKay Shapiro, What Love Means to You People, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Dunne Books, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry hot-doggy
• Flocks of herring gulls are often seen near piers and wharves where they perform a valuable service by feeding on garbage and refuse.1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 106. From the entry herring gull
• These are Hine-karoro (origin and personification of the karoro, or black-billed gull), the next born being Hine-tara (the tara, or tern); the next is Hine-tore.1909, Royal Society of New Zealand, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, page 273. From the entry tara
• Provided by Rentokil, specially trained birds of prey - such as Harris's hawks - are flown to deter gulls and other pest birds without causing them harm.2023 May 31, “Network News: Rail Minister a keynote speaker at Rail Live 2023”, in RAIL, number 984, page 19. From the entry Harris's hawk
• Margaret River itself, although it seems to be Scott River by Prevelly, flows into the Indian Ocean and creates a sandbank, where sat a raft of terns and gulls.2010, Andy Gibb, The Honeyeaters' Tree, page 32. From the entry raft
• Kemp watched sperm whales and green turtles and hundreds of gulls and petrels – known as “Mother Carey's chickens” – that flew around the ship with piercing screams.2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, page 36. From the entry Mother Carey's chicken
• But it has been pointed out that the courtship displays of the swallow-tailed gull, easily observed on the Galápagos, differ considerably from those of Sabine’s gull.2002, John Kricher, “All the Birds Were So Tame”, in Galápagos (Smithsonian Natural History Series), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian…. From the entry Sabine's
• We dined on squab, which I suspected of having started out in life as nonlaughing sea gull, listened to the current palaver in the bar and said good night.1947, Robert Joseph Casey, More interesting people. From the entry nonlaughing
• The gulls in the river were flying in long, lazy curves, dipping down to the water, skimming it an instant, and then wheeling up again with easy, slanting wings.1912, James Stephens, chapter 8, in The Charwoman’s Daughter. From the entry wheel
• Meadowlarks are in full voice, as are all manner of ducks, geese and gulls; with just a skiff of wind, sound travels a long way on mornings such as this.2019 May 5, Brad Dokken, “More bust than boom for dwindling prairie chickens in Grand Forks County”, in Grand Forks Herald. From the entry skiff

Meaning of gull

1. noun A seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.
2. noun Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Cepora.
3. noun A cheating trick; a fraud.

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How do you use gull in a sentence?

Gull is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area.”

What is a short sentence with gull?

“Damon pointed at the squabble of gulls.”

What does gull mean?

Gull means a seabird of the genus Larus or of the subfamily Larinae.