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How to use heron in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Heron means any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae. Example: “Herons hunt by stealth, and the bittern may be the stealthiest of the lot.”

More sentences with heron

  • Herons hunt by stealth, and the bittern may be the stealthiest of the lot.1988 April 22, Jerry Sullivan, “Field & Street”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry stealthiest
  • Blue hares, deer, wild geese, herons and duck can be discreetly observed from the hides.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 382, about Tighnabruaich. From the entry hide
  • A siege of herons feeds in the shallows.2000, Phil Cousineau, The Book of Roads, San Francisco, CA: Sisyphus Press, page 144. From the entry siege
  • And whoever saw a siege of herons?1954 June, John Welman, Blackwoods Magazine, Blackwood Pillans and Wilson, page 484. From the entry siege
  • The Toki or Japanese crested ibis (ibis nippon) is an almost extinct kind of bird resembling the heron.1934, Frederic de Garis, Atsuharu Sakai, We Japanese, page 354. From the entry toki
  • He told how the herons always came at St.1927, Alfred Tresidder Sheppard, Here Comes an Old Sailor, page 246. From the entry gaggle
  • There, a huge blue heron stands sentry like a statue, eye on the surface, waiting for his next meal to wriggle by.2016, Rae Carson, Like a River Glorious, HarperCollins, →ISBN. From the entry whole
  • The Rodrigues night heron was an early casualty from the Mascarenes and is particularly interesting for a heron in that it was probably flightless.2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 74. From the entry Rodrigues night heron
  • Egrets, shrikes, and Louisiana herons rose and settled lazily, and there were strange insect noises and the call of frogs and gekkos.1965, Ian Fleming, chapter 7, in The Man with the Golden Gun. From the entry gekko
  • That being so, it is hardly possible to avoid the feeling that 'High tide' and 'the heron dived' also have symbolic connotations in addition to their denotatory meaning.1982, Allan Rodway, The Craft of Criticism, page 22. From the entry denotatory

Meaning of heron

  1. noun Any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.

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Questions about heron in a sentence

How do you use heron in a sentence?
Heron is used as a noun. For example: “Herons hunt by stealth, and the bittern may be the stealthiest of the lot.”
What is a short sentence with heron?
“And whoever saw a siege of herons?”
What does heron mean?
Heron means any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.

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