How to Use condor in a Sentence

condor

noun
  • The winds that lash the ridge will help the condors take flight for the first time.
    — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Finkelstein has now shown that the condor’s fate is far from certain.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2012
  • This year, the zoo team was inspired to try three chicks per single condor.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • Mafall, who had the wingspan of a condor, scaled the back of the bus to tie wheelchairs to the roof.
    — Lane Hartill, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Young condors raised by condors have a higher chance of survival in the wild.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 July 2024
  • The condors typically lay eggs on cave floors or in large crevices.
    — Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2019
  • This might explain why coastal condors have thinner eggshells than those inland.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
  • Coastal-dwelling condors have more of these compounds than those living inland, the study found.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2019
  • This means that the condor doesn’t have to generate nearly as much lift as a reindeer would.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Scientists also learned the condors’ carrion of choice has changed over the years.
    — Byscience News Staff, science.org, 4 May 2023
  • In the 1970s, only a few dozen condors remained in the wild.
    — Julie Sharp, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • By 1982, there were only 22 condors left in the world.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2026
  • When the door to their mountaintop enclosure was opened, one condor spread its wings and took flight as a crowd watched.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In 1982, there were just 23 condors left on the planet.
    — Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And by 2008, there were more condors soaring open skies than those living in zoos.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 26 July 2024
  • The remaining four birds slowly follow the first brave condor.
    — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Each condor, both born in captivity and in the wild, has been closely tracked ever since.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 8 July 2020
  • For many spectators, spotting a condor is a bird-watching goal of a lifetime.
    — Shaena Montanari, The Arizona Republic, 23 Sep. 2020
  • The outlet added that crows and other species, like condors, are also attracted to shiny items.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • But growing up with real condors as parents better prepares the chicks for life outside of the zoo.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 26 July 2024
  • Lewis is six feet five and has the wingspan of a condor, along with a vertical leap that enabled him to start dunking in sixth grade.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 30 May 2019
  • On the right side the American bald eagle flies toward the center to meet the condor.
    — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The plan was to film a car in an alley using lights mounted on a hydraulic boom called a condor, but the hydraulics failed at the last minute.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Born last spring, #1111 is the second condor ever to fledge, or learn to fly, in Zion.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Jan. 2022
  • Wildlife managers say this may cause the condors to travel to unexpected locations in search of food.
    — John Leos, AZCentral.com, 1 Oct. 2025
  • But the story of the condor and its public acceptance has mostly turned out to be a happy one over these 30 years.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Turns out, if the large bird above you has a white triangle across its upper body resembling Texas longhorn antlers, that’s a condor.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2025
  • One is a 4-month-old condor chick named Iniko that was living in a nest in a redwood tree about a mile from the facility.
    — James Rogers, Fox News, 26 Aug. 2020
  • To begin, all wild condors were captured and brought to the two zoos, causing the species to become temporarily extinct in the wild.
    — Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • The scientists learned that the costs of gliding for condors were extremely low, barely twice the caloric expense of resting on the ground.
    — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023

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