How to Use falconer in a Sentence

falconer

noun
  • The falcon no longer hears the falconer.
    — Alaa Alqaisi august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Licensed falconers can take birds from the wild and keep them for hunting.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2020
  • Like birds of prey being tamed by a falconer, the envious have their eyes sewn shut.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Tango appears to sit on a falconer-like leather gloved and works magic.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 July 2019
  • The falconer in charge of the owl soon rushed in to retrieve the bird, which had since settled on a table.
    — Michael Bartiromo, Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The bird’s head is bent down toward the falconer’s left hand, which experts note may be holding food.
    — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Nothing was as good as a falconer with his bird, but that cost a couple of hundred dollars a day.
    — Ronald D. White, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
  • In order to join this legacy, prospective falconers have to have as much stamina as their birds.
    — National Geographic, 21 June 2016
  • When everything was ready the Khan set out with his ten thousand falconers.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2019
  • Guests can learn this ancient art from master falconer Rob White in a hands-on class.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • The city plans to keep the falconer on site until the end of the month, when the baby birds are expected to leave the nest.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The effect is a bit mesmerizing, as the falconer moves the bird's body while its head remains still.
    — Leah Asmelash, CNN, 1 Feb. 2020
  • For reasons that might surprise you, Claire Foy won’t be putting a falconer’s glove back on any time soon.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
  • One falconer had to be terminated on short notice during the study.
    — Jeff Kronenfeld, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Tyler Sladen, a falconer in the Southwest, has an enormous pack of setters.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The airport even had contracted with a falconer at one point who used hawks to remove birds from different areas.
    — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 13 Mar. 2023
  • When the birds first appeared, the city hired a falconer to scare them away using a hawk, with limited success, Klein said.
    — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2022
  • On the terrace, a falconer faces the sea, the bird on his arm scaring off the seagulls, as the fiery orb dips into the Adriatic.
    — Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Arab falconers trapped them here until Dubai banned capturing birds from the wild in the 1970s.
    — New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The Four-Star hotel’s master falconer will teach you about the history and rules of hunting with birds of prey.
    — Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • His intention, the police alleged, was to sell them to wealthy falconers in the Middle East.
    — Graeme Wood, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The only move Lazio have made, apart from the sale of Loum Tchaouna to Burnley, was to move out their falconer.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Also an experienced falconer, Kennedy is known for keeping and training birds of prey.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 26 May 2026
  • Also an experienced falconer, Kennedy is known for keeping and training birds of prey.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 4 May 2026
  • Last year, the resort hired its first female falconer, Deanna Curtis, to run the four-year-old program.
    — Kate Donnelly, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2020
  • The experience ends with a picnic lunch and wine tasting in the garden, when vineyard falconers will bring in other raptors for the guests to meet.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Over the years, the city has tried options such as reflective materials placed in trees and even the use of a falconer, with limited success.
    — Kiet Do, CBS News, 13 Jan. 2022
  • That explains his interest in a dicey wind energy project and his involvement with a group of falconers clamoring to hunt with eagles.
    — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Many people observed Morley flying birds in his North End backyard as a falconer.
    — Steve Stuebner, idahostatesman, 26 Feb. 2018
  • The reference to falconers—and their falcons—could be a reference to autonomous weapons, and that could be where the confusion came from.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2019

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