How to Use stork in a Sentence

stork

noun
  • There’s a lion, a tiger, a camel, a stork — even a sea monster.
    — WSJ, 14 June 2023
  • In front of the next house stood a figure of a stork, with a pink ribbon around its neck.
    — Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • But in the case of the stork, the bird saw the drone and outmaneuvered it.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The team kept an eye on the stork as staff brought the zebra and rhino into the barns.
    — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Those giant, stork-like birds looked like airborne flakes of ground pepper.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2020
  • And like many other over-sized birds, the stork likely wasn't the flying type.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2010
  • Hearts bloom over their heads, and by the end of the game, a stork delivers their baby.
    — Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2020
  • Wood storks are long-legged, wading birds that can stand more than 4-feet tall when fully-grown.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Most kept a reasonable distance, but the storks pressed up to the front line in search of easy prey.
    — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Like the stork, Edison is bringing a bundle of joy.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 15 May 2026
  • Birds like storks are nature’s experts at using air currents to get a free ride.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The wingspan of white stork can be over ten feet, bigger than a Shahed drone.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Later, a flock of storks came wheeling in high on the thermals, and the camp gathered to watch.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Forget dogs — in The Tale of Silyan, man’s new best friend is the stork.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Remote nest cameras and meal remains also show that the stork is on the eagle’s menu.
    — National Geographic, 17 May 2016
  • The zoo said the training helped the staff members act quickly to relocate the stork.
    — Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Hard to imagine how the stork got off the ground carrying that much athleticism.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
  • In story one, the stork needs a break, and some of the other are called on to deliver a baby girl.
    — Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The marabou stork’s nakedness is natural, but there are other reasons for naked birds to be naked.
    — Susan Matthews, Slate Magazine, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Wild birds like ducks, geese, swans, storks, plovers, sandpipers, gulls and terns are all susceptible to bird flu.
    — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Ukraine’s iconic white stork wins a victory over a Russian drone.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • An adult milky stork stands about 3 feet tall and can live up to 30 years or more in captivity.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • His dancers waddle like storks, skim the ground squatting, bend deeply in every direction.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2017
  • Dakar captures their tractor turning over the earth and storks swooping down for wiggling worms to feed their young.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The stork of journalistic gold nuggets dropped several gifts our way.
    — Nick Allen, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2021
  • The storks and pelicans have wingspans 4 to 5feet wide, while the other birds are about the size of ducks.
    — David Hulen, adn.com, 1 Jan. 1950
  • When Barman arrived, a nest of endangered baby storks was on the ground.
    — Kyla Mandel, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The researchers have drawn a parallel to modern-day storks and cranes, which wade through aquatic areas.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Ranging from the tiny, hovering hummingbird to the stout, waddling duck and the long-legged stork.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
  • Wood storks were once confined to remote reaches of the Everglades.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023

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