How to Use avian in a Sentence

avian

adjective
  • But where did this avian metaphor come from in the first place?
    — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • The second comes from the avian world.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Egg prices have been on the rise amid a deadly bout of avian flu.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
  • In one case, a shoot was shut down due to an outbreak of avian flu.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The issue for us transcends the avian flu.
    — Hal Boedeker, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2026
  • There are other avian options to bronze in the oven and present with panache.
    — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • An outbreak of avian flu caused a shortage of eggs, the price of which soared.
    — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
  • The cost of a dozen — though volatile thanks to avian flu — has doubled to more than $3.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The pyre’s final stunt sees the avian structure break free and soar through the night sky.
    — Daron James, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Millions of chickens and geese have been culled in response to avian flu.
    — Vincent Gabrielle, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Four goslings hatched, just the first wave in an avian population boom.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
  • What’s more, the virus has spread far beyond its typical avian hosts.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Their eggs were huge, larger than that of even the biggest non-avian dinosaurs.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Who was the avian villain in 'Wednesday'?
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2025
  • But his claim that windmills pose a great threat to our avian friends is dubious at best.
    — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
  • That's just a step away from a major outbreak of avian flu, which right now has no vaccine.
    — Dan Gorenstein, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The first stop for avian lovers, when kayaking here, is a glide past the famed bird sanctuary.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 11 June 2017
  • An avian flu outbreak, meanwhile, has sent egg prices up 21% over the past year.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 May 2023
  • Too many sea cliffs have fallen bird-silent in recent years, but here there was abundant avian life.
    — Sarah Moss, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Two strains of avian flu in the past decade also may have emerged from a poultry market and a goose farm.
    — Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
  • Try a masked cape and corset look for an avian look with Victorian flair.
    — Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 12 May 2022
  • Miller said the ponds were refilled last year once the immediate threat of avian flu had passed.
    — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 25 May 2024
  • For starters, this is the first time that the posture seen in the embryo has been seen in a non-avian dinosaur.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Dec. 2021
  • So far, tests confirmed 10 of those birds were positive for the avian flu.
    — Cheri Carlson, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Mike Puglisi's egg farm was one of the first to get hit with avian flu back in 2022.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Bioterrorism, the avian flu, the Iraq war, and pedophile priests?
    — Ew Staff, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2022
  • When avian flu is discovered on an egg farm, all the chickens on the farm are killed to limit the spread.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Cases of avian flu have been rising in backyard flocks and wild birds across dozens of states in recent months.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 24 Apr. 2022
  • An outbreak of avian flu and high demand led prices to peak in late December.
    — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2023
  • There was some fear of a spike in turkey costs after an outbreak of avian flu caused wholesale prices to jump this fall.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 24 Nov. 2025

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