How to Use sandpiper in a Sentence

sandpiper

noun
  • Now, the unsteady first steps of tiny sandpiper chicks have been captured on video.
    — Nadia Drake, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2013
  • The sky is a sheet of blue, a breeze wraps us with clean air, a sandpiper mom shrieks over her hatchlings.
    — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 July 2017
  • There was also a whimbrel and a pectoral sandpiper seen last week.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2019
  • At low tides, sandpipers and willets are common on the mudflats.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Examples of birds with this wing type are ducks, falcons, swifts and sandpipers.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The pectoral sandpiper breeds in the Arctic, at a time when the sun never sets.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 9 Aug. 2012
  • The sandpipers had already migrated, and the laughing gulls were long gone.
    — Latria Graham, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The pair of pectoral sandpipers were only seen once despite a week of follow-up surveys.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The other, with speckled brown-and-white feathers and a drooping bill, was a purple sandpiper.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The ceiling, which would be a credit to a fine hotel, is decorated with sandpipers and blue herons.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2017
  • Most members of the sandpiper family tend to be sociable.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In Longmeadow, a snowy egret was seen and a stilt sandpiper was found at the Longmeadow flats.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2021
  • In a tip of the wing from the avian community, a murmuration of sandpipers swirls and dips above the rushing tide.
    — National Geographic, 13 June 2017
  • But a new study reveals that even a small amount of oil could cause major damage to bird populations like the western sandpiper.
    — Ryan Cross, Science | AAAS, 7 July 2017
  • The ruddy turnstone and purple sandpiper seem to like each other's company.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Don’t expect great cellphone reception, and your closest neighbor might be a sandpiper nesting in the beach grass.
    — Steve Annear, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
  • That’s probably the front-runner here, with its Pixar imprimatur and cute little sandpiper birds.
    — Mike Hogan, VanityFair.com, 21 Feb. 2017
  • Gliding across the water as the sun came up and the shorebirds — kingfishers, sandpipers, herons, egrets — sprang to life was a heavenly treat.
    — Susan Maas / Special To The Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 2 Feb. 2017
  • But every retelling of that moment features Chase as a news anchor and a poor baby sandpiper meeting an untimely end.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Common murres, for instance, are fast, powerful fliers and have asymmetric eggs, as do least sandpipers, which migrate long distances.
    — Steph Yin, New York Times, 22 June 2017
  • Shorebirds like sandpipers and plovers use this sense to detect prey beneath the sand by sensing subtle mechanical vibrations.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Hummingbirds lay eggs that look like Tic Tacs, owls lay nigh-perfect spheres, and sandpipers lay almost conical eggs that end in a rounded point.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 22 June 2017
  • This has had a detrimental effect on wild bird populations, some of which — including the western sandpiper — are now imperiled.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The bird to receive the lowest IAA score was the sandpiper with a score of negative 23, the Guardian reports.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2021
  • Awe-inspiring wildlife can be found on land (including black bears and deer), in the sea (several species of whales, sea otters, and seals), and in the sky above (bald eagles, sandpipers, and hundreds more).
    — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2023
  • Among other subjects, the book explores the sea’s geography, its intertidal life, its deeps, diving mammals and birds, and epic migrations of some of its animals, from salmon to gray whales to sandpipers.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Shorebirds began their journeys early and travel fast, many of them after a short breeding season in the far, far north, so birds like sandpipers, yellowlegs, willets, godwits and curlews are already present in abundant numbers.
    — Jack Gedney, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2024
  • This 2016 film was directed by Alan Barillaro, who studied sandpipers and their behaviors in preparation for this short.
    — Sydni Ellis, Peoplemag, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Good flyers like sandpipers and murres tend to lay eggs that are more elongated and more asymmetrical—a bit like the shape of a Zeppelin—likely because lots of time in the air requires lightweight, compact bodies.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 22 June 2017
  • At Forest Beach in Chatham there was a pectoral sandpiper along with a whimbrel and the continuing marbled godwit and 5 Western willets.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022

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