How to Use cormorant in a Sentence

cormorant

noun
  • Diamond Jim Brady was perhaps the most celebrated cormorant of the Gilded Age.
  • Hundreds of black cormorant birds stood as if sentries on the rocks east of the cove.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Now, the pond was murky, and a cormorant stood hunting at the water’s edge.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • One bird — a Brandt’s cormorant — that had been oiled died over the weekend.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Eagles, egrets, cormorants and herons are fishing, too.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • Smolts are picked off by birds like double crested cormorants and caspian terns.
    — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
  • When fish are stuck in the canal, predators like grebes and cormorants can more easily snatch them.
    — Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Wander the windswept shoreline as waves break at your feet and Brandt’s cormorants wheel through the air.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Many other birds make their home here, including bald eagles and cormorants.
    — Kara Williams, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Countless species including these cormorants depend on healthy kelp forests to thrive.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The eagles eat the cormorants who also nest on the island, and have never bothered the goats.
    — Megan Jones, Lake County News-Sun, 28 June 2017
  • There have been 10 birds rescued — nine pelicans and one cormorant.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Noisy or silent, these creatures, like the herons, cormorants, and bald eagles, had chosen this place for a reason.
    — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Rayner will also be looking out for pelicans, ducks and cormorants.
    — Nicole Cobler, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and sea reptiles made way for sea-diving birds like cormorants and penguins.
    — National Geographic, 13 Dec. 2017
  • As the surf crashed against a barrier of sand, pelicans, cormorants and ospreys soared over the dark water.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Our view looked out over a small pond—perfect for birding, as cormorants regularly took up post on a tree there—and the ocean beyond.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 May 2026
  • Sea lion pups are nursing, playing and learning to swim and there are baby pelicans and cormorants all along the cliffs.
    — Monica Deeks, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2025
  • As the boat passed a small island, an African fish eagle was seen nested near a cacophonous gathering of cormorants.
    — Benedict Moran, National Geographic, 7 May 2019
  • Among its meanders, islands and beaches, there are storks, herons, cormorants and kingfishers.
    — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 6 May 2026
  • Look out on the cliffs below the trail for breeding pelagic and Brandt’s cormorants, as well as the lonely northern gannet.
    — Jill K. Robinson, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
  • Some sea birds, including pelicans, loons and cormorants also sick from the toxin, are also being cared for at the park.
    — Debbi Baker, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • The federal agent quickly identified the man holding white and brown pelicans, a cormorant and two gulls.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Then, over Labor Day weekend, one of the zoo’s cormorants died, as did a pheasant, a bald eagle, and three flamingos.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
  • There weren’t any cormorants perched on the rocks—a sign that the fish hadn’t arrived in numbers yet—but the sight of all that tan water sliding by was reassuring.
    — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 16 Apr. 2020
  • The team mapped cormorants’ nests in the cliffs above La Jolla Cove and saw the first eggs of the year in January.
    — Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026
  • Otters and sea lions bask on the jetty; pumpkin orange sea stars are visible in the clear water, and cormorants and gulls circle above the rock.
    — Dallas News, 4 May 2020
  • While the eruption posed no risk to humans, the island is home to a number of species, including iguanas, penguins and flightless cormorants.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Nesting pelicans and cormorants also face threats from toxic cleaning substances.
    — Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
  • The fetid mess left behind, along with the waste from cormorants and other seabirds, sometimes proved overwhelming in a community where tourists pay to eat outside.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 14 July 2016

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