How to Use falconry in a Sentence

falconry

noun
  • Foy had to learn falconry for the role.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And the idea of having a goshawk is such an extreme thing in falconry.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Students can learn the ins and outs of falconry and have a chance to handle the birds.
    — Ben Brazil, Daily Pilot, 8 Aug. 2019
  • While there, the pop star stopped by the resort’s 90-minute falconry class.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 1 Mar. 2018
  • Not even the World Cup can soar past Qatar’s love for falconry.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Guests can bowl or play croquet, fish or go skeet shooting, ride horses or learn falconry.
    — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2019
  • But if that sport hasn’t changed over the centuries, just about everything else about falconry has.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • This year, there’s also a falconry demonstration with birds of prey.
    — Michael James Rocha, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Helen runs towards falconry at full speed.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Spend your days on the tennis courts or at the falconry school or golf academy, which has ten driving bays.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Kids 7 years of age and older can try their hand at falconry without leaving the premises.
    — Karla Pope, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The resort offers wildlife drives as well as archery, desert biking, falconry and stargazing.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Jan. 2026
  • The standout among the wide range of options was the on-site falconry experience.
    — Rachel Dube, Robb Report, 19 Mar. 2024
  • There’s hiking, of course, and mountain biking, but there are also other very cool, unique things to do, like falconry!
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Both books are about the art of falconry, in which birds of prey, by means of deprivation and reward, are taught to hunt to please their owners.
    — Cynthia Zarin, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
  • From all manner of water sports to falconry demonstrations and fireside ukelele lessons, this private beach club has it all.
    — Amanda Fletcher, Orange County Register, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Meanwhile, though, falconry was catching on in the United States.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Country pursuits are the order of the day – a light spot of riding, tennis, clay pigeon shooting, or falconry.
    — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2026
  • In Alaska, by contrast, falconry is a tiny but fascinating sport.
    — John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Sep. 2017
  • The head butler will set you up with archery, falconry, riding, hikes on the moors, golf, or salmon fishing (for which Lismore is legendary).
    — Wendy Perrin, Town & Country, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Clay pigeon shooting, archery and falconry are available on the estate with trout fishing accessible on the loch.
    — Laurie Werner, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • In one scene, men sit in tents next to enormous monitors showing a falconry contest in which falcons chase down other birds while they in turn are chased by still other men.
    — Manohla Dargis and A.o. Scott, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
  • For more than 3,000 years, humans have trained these lords of the sky to hunt wild game for them, developing into the art of falconry.
    — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • For the more ambitious, there’s archery, horseback riding, fishing, skeet shooting, falconry and croquet.
    — By Brian Melton, star-telegram, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Kitty started her falconry career in the early 1980s, putting on shows with a few birds at renaissance fairs.
    — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • There’s tons to do, but don’t miss falconry lessons, golf, fly fishing, ranch cattle drives, and a breathtaking canyon zip-line tour above Seven Falls.
    — Nina Kokotas Hahn, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Especially at first, H Is for Hawk might seem a strong argument for taking up falconry.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The figurine may be one of the oldest Scandinavian depictions of falconry, a hunting practice where birds of prey are trained to kill wild game.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2022
  • The Ashford is renowned for its falconry school (the first in Ireland), and children delight in watching the hawks take off and land on gloved hands in search of bits of meat.
    — Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
  • On that day, visitors can immerse themselves in the world of the House of Stark with jousting shows, archery demonstrations and falconry displays.
    — Cailey Rizzo, Smithsonian, 18 Aug. 2017

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