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How to use talon in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Talon means a sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal. Example: “The animal fell backward, its talons in a deathlock on the sill of the empty window frame.”

More sentences with talon

  • The animal fell backward, its talons in a deathlock on the sill of the empty window frame.2010, S.M. Stirling, The Sky People, →ISBN. From the entry deathlock
  • Dens in dente, peg-shaped lateral incisors, microdontia, megadontia, fusion, gemination and connation, talon cusp, taurodontism, etc.2008, R. A. Cawson, E. W. Odell, Cawson's Essentials of Oral Pathology and Oral Medicine, 8th edition, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone…. From the entry megadontia
  • I'm not exactly defenseless myself." From my paddy-paw a talon popped, curved like a sickle moon.2006, Jonathan Stroud, Ptolemy's Gate. From the entry paddy paw
  • The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon.1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry amaranthine
  • The sharp talons raked straight through the scalemail down the back of her left arm and snapped her bow in two.2006, Blake Garrett Anderson, The Dragonheroes (The Birth of Terralax; 1), [Bradenton, Fla.]: Booklocker.com, Inc., →ISBN, page 355. From the entry scalemail
  • Mabob dashed after it and, before the whompem hit the ground, Mabob had sunk a footful of talons into its spine.1991, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine - Volume 15, page 143. From the entry footful
  • Strong legs with talons can grab and hold their victims.1946, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, Wildlife in North Carolina, N. C. Wildlife Resources Commission, page 28. From the entry midair
  • It was a red drama of the primitive—destruction amuck and ariot, the primordial embodied in fangs and talons, gone mad and plunging in slaughter.1935 February, Robert E. Howard, chapter 5, in Weird Tales. From the entry ariot
  • Nobody had flown beside an osprey, painted by Audubon as if seen aloft by a companion bird, gripping a fish in its talons and opening its beak in midcry.2009 March 1, Jonathan Rosen, “The Fledgling Ornithologist”, in New York Times. From the entry midcry
  • They moaned and grumbled and complained as they stamped their feet on the banks of the Phlegethon and warmed their talons over the curling flames of an infernal brazier.1995, Andrew Harman, “Of Blueprints and Hair-nets”, in Fahrenheit 666, London: Legend Books, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry Phlegethon

Meaning of talon

  1. noun A sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.
  2. noun One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.
  3. noun A kind of moulding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; an ogee. (When the concave part is at the top, it is called an inverted talon.).

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Questions about talon in a sentence

How do you use talon in a sentence?
Talon is used as a noun. For example: “The animal fell backward, its talons in a deathlock on the sill of the empty window frame.”
What is a short sentence with talon?
“Strong legs with talons can grab and hold their victims.”
What does talon mean?
Talon means a sharp, hooked claw of a bird of prey or other predatory animal.

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