How to Use beak in a Sentence

beak

noun
  • All have the stout beak that gives the bird its name.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The heron would drop the snake and stab it again with its beak.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 May 2024
  • Which birds have the longest beaks or bills?
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The birds unhinged their beaks as if to make a loud sound.
    — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • The ≠ sign from the pink group makes its tiny little beak.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Her cake looks kind of like an old boot with a pencil for a beak.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The birds’ task was to touch the circles with their beaks and tongues.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Mar. 2024
  • And, yep, these birds have beady black eyes flanking their sharp beaks.
    — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 18 Aug. 2017
  • The flesh didn’t come from a bird with feathers, a beak and a brain.
    — Jon Emont, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2021
  • The male lands next to her and places the slim, silvery fish in her beak.
    — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 5 July 2023
  • The lectern eagle with split beak, To speak.
    — Patricia Lockwood, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The size and shape of their beaks is an influence.
    — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Hawks are a type of predatory bird with sharp talons and beaks.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But something about the crook in its beak made her pulse quicken.
    — Alex Stuckey, San Antonio Express-News, 3 June 2018
  • Add black beads for eyes, along with a paper beak and wattle.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2023
  • In either case, neither of their beaks is very long.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The birds use their beaks to scoop up whatever comes their way.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • But a male can only open and close his beak so quickly and so wide.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 24 Sep. 2020
  • Cut a triangle beak and feet from black card stock and glue to the body.
    — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Put beaks on the helmets, you cowards.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Ducks got punched in the beak Friday.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • The beak’s two yellow ridges, called the lamella and the cere, lit up.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
  • But the snake wasn’t dead and kept wrapping itself around the bird’s beak.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 26 May 2024
  • When Collins moved the olive branch from beak to talons, the image was locked.
    — Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
  • If that feels rather on-the-beak, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.
    — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2021
  • The team suspects the birds may have used their beak to snip and pull at the harness.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Remove and discard beak (a 1-inch bony mass) from base of head.
    — Mary G. Pepitone, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • No one knows how Bruce lost the entire upper half of his beak.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 22 Apr. 2026
  • One of the most common beak types is the conical beak.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Those beaks tell a clear story about how these animals fed.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 24 Apr. 2026

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