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How to use puffin in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Puffin means the young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food. Example: “Mama puffin arrives and lays her mouthful of live fish close to the front of the burrow.”

More sentences with puffin

  • Mama puffin arrives and lays her mouthful of live fish close to the front of the burrow.2007, Katherine Zecca, A Puffin’s Year, [Camden, Me.]: Down East Books, →ISBN. From the entry puffling
  • 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
  • Puffins on the Isle of May are nibbling on nurdles, the little nuggets that serve as raw materials for plastics manufacturing.2015 March 27, Amanda Schupak, “Plastic pellets found in puffin tummies”, in CBS News. From the entry nurdle
  • When they're old enough the young puffins, or pufflings as they're called, have to fly off to find food.2009 September 3, “Kids patrol to help lost puffins”, in CBBC Newsround, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016. From the entry puffling
  • Do not ride across a pelican, puffin or zebra crossing.2003, The Highway Code for Northern Ireland, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry zebra crossing
  • A 'CIRCUS' of puffins will take flight to their new perches over the next few days, after their official unveiling at Government House.2023 March 30, “Parade puffins officially unveiled at Government House”, in Guernsey Press. From the entry circus
  • The circus of puffins were pictured by Alana Willox who was out on a walk at the Bullers of Buchan in Buchan, Aberdeenshire on Sunday.2022 April 20, Darren McConachie, “Scots amateur photographer captures stunning images of puffins”, in Deadline. From the entry circus
  • My first thought was that it would make a fine accompaniment to my evening meal, for your puffin is a fatsome bird and fries nicely in its own juices.2016, Will Mabbitt, The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones. From the entry fatsome
  • It's got everything : sandy beaches, where the seals bob up and yabble to you; cliffs with guillemots, kittiwakes and puffins; dozens of caves; hilltops with eagles; trees; skylarks.1963, Robin Jenkins, A Love of Innocence, page 27. From the entry yabble
  • The pigeon guillemot, often called sea pigeon or bank duck , is a diving bird belonging to the family Alcidae , which includes the auks , murres and puffins .1958, Asa Clifford Thoresen, Breeding Activities of the Pigeon Guillemot, page 1. From the entry sea pigeon

Meaning of puffin

  1. noun The young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.
  2. noun The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica) or (by extension) any of the other various small seabirds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda that are black and white with a brightly-coloured beak.
  3. noun Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as albatrosses.

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Questions about puffin in a sentence

How do you use puffin in a sentence?
Puffin is used as a noun. For example: “Mama puffin arrives and lays her mouthful of live fish close to the front of the burrow.”
What is a short sentence with puffin?
“Do not ride across a pelican, puffin or zebra crossing.”
What does puffin mean?
Puffin means the young of the Manx shearwater (Puffinus puffinus), especially eaten as food.

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