seafowl
IPA: sˈifaʊɫ
noun
- Any bird that spends most of its time in coastal waters or over the oceans.
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Examples of "seafowl" in Sentences
- The word flew among screaming seafowl: “He has come, he has come, he is here, and he leads us.”
- The fisherman was an active young man who came to Skansen with seafowl that he had managed to capture alive.
- Sunset light streamed over a hush broken only by the mildest of breezes and the squeals of leathery-winged seafowl.
- On the leeward side of these rocks, in little hollows of the stone, he found a quantity of the eggs of some seafowl.
- This is partly owing to the dung of a vast multitude of seafowl, and partly to a coating of a hard glossy substance with
- The woman looked neither at the seafowl nor at the burning glens of scarlet flame which stretched dishevelled among the ruined lands of the sunset.
- But strong, long-breathed, and accustomed to such exercise, Halbert, even though encumbered with his sword, dived and rose like a seafowl, and swam across the lake in the northern direction.
- "Well, actually, old egg," replied Bertram in fluent Talyinan, "considering the meaning of ` Push '" which was the name of a variety of seafowl "I am forced to admit that your otherwise miserable pun includes winged words."
- Whilst passing this end of the island at sea, I could not imagine what the white patches were with which the whole plain was mottled; I now found that they were seafowl, sleeping in such full confidence, that even in midday a man could walk up and seize hold of them.
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