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• A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.From the entry prototype
• He wondered whether penguins could fly. She had wondered this herself sometimes.From the entry wonder
• Most of the penguins were friendly and curious.From the entry most
• That's a screwy idea; I am not going to fly all the way to Antarctica just to see a penguin!From the entry screwy
• “Good work, Jackson.” Doreen Heckle-Flipper and a couple other penguins from the Mom Squad came shuffling over.2020, Sam Hay, chapter 10, in Golden Egg (Spy Penguins), New York, N.Y.: Square Fish, published 2021, →ISBN. From the entry don't count your chicks
• Good idea to embrace the penguin and let go of the Bill.1999 October 23, Rohana Rezel, “Re: Thinking Linux”, in alt.linux (Usenet), message-ID <38121C6F.864D48E2@stud.umist.ac.uk>. From the entry embrace the penguin
• Perhaps the most surprising of all is the 35 centimetre (14 inch) tall Galápagos penguin.1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 29. From the entry Galápagos penguin
• This condition is shared only by the ostrich, the penguins, and the colies.1983, Oliver Luther Austin, Birds of the World, page 63. From the entry coly
• This yearning to hear the pitter-patter of penguin feet is no sudden whim.1970 April 19, Pat McDonnell, “Project Penguin fowls out”, in Independent Press-Telegram, volume 19, number 36, Long Beach, Calif., →OCLC…. From the entry pitter-patter
• It grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber.1914, Jack London, chapter 33, in Mutiny of the Elsinore. From the entry slubber
• I was excited to ramp up our cave-diving efforts, and to see my first big congregation of penguins.2019, Jill Heinerth, Into the Planet, Doubleday Canada. From the entry congregation
• There are Seventeen kinds of penguin, but the Emperor is the only one that breeds in Antarctica in midwinter.2014, Martin Jenkins, The Emperor's Egg, page 3. From the entry emperor
• I know some of the penguins species mate for life.2008, Gloria Clifford, Emperor Penguins: The Lords of Antarctica. From the entry emperor
• The next thing, a penguin will walk in here, tip his top hat, and abase himself while he mutters obsequiously in penguinese.2016, Randall Garrett, Unwise Child. From the entry penguinese
• A penguin or a clucking hen logically might satisfy the ascertainable criteria of birdness but remain somehow inapt for excavating focal meanings.2012, Richard Biernacki, Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry. From the entry birdness
• There were night penguins that emitted green light only when hunting in dark seas, and merlions whose manes were fringed with pallid lavender.2000, Alan Dean Foster, A Triumph of Souls, New York, N.Y.: Aspect/Warner Books, →ISBN. From the entry merlion
• For most penguins this means marriage.1983, Jacinth Ivie Baublitz, Relationshift, page 83. From the entry terminize
• Lillis imported a waddle of penguins who lined up at the clubhouse gate in their snappy thermal attire and were the first clients admitted.1963, Red Smith, The Best of Red Smith, F. Watts, page 111. From the entry waddle
• Why should a mere pair of googly eyes change a tea kettle into an Emperor penguin or transmute a tree trunk into a bewildered, long-nosed man?2020 May 1, Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik, “Eyebomb Your Brain”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 25 Apr…. From the entry eyebombing
• You can see the dolphin show, the miracles of Stellar's sea lions and the cute waddle of penguins under the glittering illumination of the indoor swimming pool.2008, Hyeongak Kim, Visual Atlas of Korea: 2008 Map & Guide, Kyohaksa, page 225. From the entry waddle
• “Oh look,” the female penguin says during the gushy scenes, “the humans are engaging in instinctive behaviors that have evolutionarily led them to procreate.” “Nonsense,” says the male.2005 September 13, “Do penguin brides get cold feet?”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., page B12, column 2. From the entry ornithologize
• She chatters, mainly to Simon, pointing out a circling mollymawk, a line of shags winging away from Maukiekie, a penguin that surfaces not far from the boat.1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 210. From the entry mollymawk
• The penguins and Tubinares capture cuttlefish and pelagic crustaceans, the giant petrel, or "breakbones," alone obtaining part of its food on shore, since it has a relish for carrion.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

Meaning of penguin

1. noun Any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.
2. noun An auk (sometimes especially a great auk), a bird of the Northern Hemisphere.
3. noun A nun.

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How do you use penguin in a sentence?

Penguin is used as a noun. For example: “A robin is a prototype of a bird; a penguin is not.”

What is a short sentence with penguin?

“For most penguins this means marriage.”

What does penguin mean?

Penguin means any of several flightless sea birds, of the family Spheniscidae within the order Sphenisciformes, found in the Southern Hemisphere, marked by their usual upright stance, walking on short legs, and (generally) their stark black and white plumage.