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How to use seabird in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Seabird means any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans. Example: “The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.”

More sentences with seabird

  • The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.From the entry aerial
  • It is also commonly observed that predators of seabirds ingest high quantities of plastics via trophic transfer.2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in…. From the entry trophic transfer
  • The dogs prey on both seabirds and open country birds, especially the Hawaiian goose, nēnē.1991, Susan Scott, Plants and Animals of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, Hi.: Bess Press, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry nene
  • Unlike most seabirds, frigatebirds are not able to alight on the water.1987, J. P. Croxall, Seabirds: Feeding Ecology and Role in Marine Ecosystems, page 58. From the entry frigatebird
  • Goldies may hunt seabirds but never fish, and they always resort to flying inland for rabbits or hares as preferred prey.2009, John A. Love, A natural history of St. Kilda. From the entry goldie
  • Most of their subjects, were traditional: celestial navigation, ocean canoeing, fish and seabirds, ancient myths and biblical tales.1997 September/October, Melinda Lewis-Matravers, “Dancing the Story”, in Islands, volume 17, number 5, Santa Barbara: Islands Pub. Co.…. From the entry Atafuan
  • The noise of the fire silenced the seabirds.1994, Harold Brodkey, “Changing Room or What a Profane Friendship Is Like”, in Profane Friendship, San Francisco, Calif.: Mercury House…. From the entry blanket
  • Seabirds are drawn to it too.2021 March 18, Sarah Zhang, “A Gruesome Feeding Frenzy in the Atlantic Ocean”, in The Atlantic. From the entry chum
  • Then seabirds appeared, crying and screeing.2003, Pete Hamill, chapter 38, in Forever: A Novel, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, →ISBN. From the entry scree
  • These “islands” would provide refuge for corms and other seabirds from sea level rise as habitat is destroyed, as well as protection from land-based predators—people, dogs, cats, rats, and cars.2017 March 28, Mark Rauzon, “The Old Bay Bridge Is Coming Down, Leaving a 40-Year-Old Cormorant Colony Adrift”, in Bay Nature, Spring…. From the entry corm

Meaning of seabird

  1. noun Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.

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Questions about seabird in a sentence

How do you use seabird in a sentence?
Seabird is used as a noun. For example: “The seabirds put on an astonishing aerial display.”
What is a short sentence with seabird?
“Seabirds are drawn to it too.”
What does seabird mean?
Seabird means any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: seabird (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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