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How to use stork in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Stork means a large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae. Example: “My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.”

Examples of stork by meaning

nounThe mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.

  • My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.

More sentences with stork

  • Oh, and she also had a little help from a muster of storks.2026 July 31, “Noemi Rüegg returns to racing at Tour de France Femmes”, in EF Pro Cycling, archived from the original on 01 Aug 2026. From the entry muster
  • Then you are an idiot who will always have stork limbs and a flabby body.2016 December 14, “Protein”, in Ultimate Performance Blog, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2021. From the entry bosu ball
  • No adolescent can achieve disbelief in the stork without an eruption of young oaths and cynicisms.1927, Gilbert W. Gabriel, “Male, Female and American Drama”, in Vanity Fair, volume 27, number 4, page 73. From the entry disbelief
  • I don't think an entire mustering of storks would have been able to peck away at her hostility.2017, Karen Duffy, Backbone, Arcade Publishing, page 55. From the entry mustering
  • On a stork whit multiple fractures which was later euthanasiated, some anatomic and histology observation were made on the esophagus.2009, V Rus, V Miclaus, GC Nadas, D Cadar, “STRUCTURAL PARTICULARITIES OF THE WHITE STORK (CICONIA CICONIA) ESOPHAGUS.”, in Annals of the…. From the entry euthanasiate
  • Hope once commented that after his birth, "My mother thought the doctor had left the stork and taken the baby."2003 July 29, Vincent Canby, “Arts: Road to Ubiquity”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Apr 2018. From the entry ski-jump nose
  • In architecture, the upper part of a column, upon which, in all good architecture, sits the thoughtful stork pondering unutterable things.1967, Ambrose Bierce, “Abacus”, in Ernest Jerome Hopkins, editor, The Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary […], Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday &…. From the entry unutterable
  • He's a jabiru - the only Australian stork.1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 83. From the entry jabiru
  • Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 19. From the entry proscenium
  • His services are increasingly in demand from a new generation of rewilders, including wealthy landowners wanting to bring back beavers, as well as harvest mice, wildcats and white storks.2020 October 13, Patrick Barkham, “How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction”, in The Guardian, archived from…. From the entry rewilder

Meaning of stork

  1. noun A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
  2. noun The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
  3. noun The seventeenth Lenormand card.

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Questions about stork in a sentence

How do you use stork in a sentence?
Stork is used as a noun. For example: “My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.”
What is a short sentence with stork?
“He's a jabiru - the only Australian stork.”
What does stork mean?
Stork means a large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stork (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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