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US
/ˈæɫbəˌtɹɑs/
]
[ UK /ˈælbɐtɹˌɒs/ ]
[ UK /ˈælbɐtɹˌɒs/ ]
NOUN
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(figurative) something that hinders or handicaps
she was an albatross around his neck - large web-footed birds of the southern hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight
How To Use albatross In A Sentence
- It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for.
- Instead of carrying the nation's hopes, he has an albatross around his neck. Times, Sunday Times
- Albatrosses, petrels, shags and shearwaters glide merrily around, all because of continental shelves and currents that slope and converge and form a giant feeding ground for these stars of the sea.
- Her own supporters see her as an albatross who could lose them the election.
- The first time a wandering albatross glides into view and regards the ship with its soft brown eyes is the stuff of dreams. Times, Sunday Times
- In The Big Year we relive their searches up snowy mountains to see ptarmigan, their boat trips to see noddies and albatrosses, their chartered helicopter rides to see Himalayan snowcocks in the Nevada desert.
- She filed a missing persons report Tuesday and his body was found Wednesday under heavy peppertree brush 30-40 feet off Albatross Road. WBBH - News
- There were terns and ernes and gulls, myriad tropical varieties of birds of all shapes and sizes, albatrosses and finches and cranes…
- Hell shrieve my soul, hell wash awayThe Albatrosss blood. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. IN SEVEN PARTS
- Scientists now want the international community to act to safeguard krill and toothfish stocks throughout the Southern Ocean, otherwise its albatross, penguin, seal, and whale populations could all be left living on very thin ice.