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.
From a lookout hut, we watched a royal albatross father trying hard to land, flying with slim wings three metres long in a circle, four or five times.
In America, the term double eagle is used instead of albatross to describe such a feat!
Spot leopard seals on ice floes, and vast rookeries of penguins and the odd albatross. Times, Sunday Times
There are hundreds of different types of birds including five types of penguins, albatrosses, and cara caras (a rare bird of prey).
Residents of Albatross Way have been suffering sleepless nights, plagued by rogue drivers racing their cars behind Presto supermarket.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service discovered in March that a Laysan albatross named Wisdom had survived.
Petrels, albatrosses, cormorants, frigatebirds, gulls etc. are mysterious and inspiring birds: often the subject of poetic stories and lots of myths around the world.
A birdwatcher 65 million years ago could have seen relatives of today's loons, geese and ducks, albatrosses and petrels, and gulls and shorebirds, and possibly other familiar birds as well.
I try to be aware of the space I take up, of the prejudice that I carry, and the privilege that is the albatross around my neck.
Privatization could become a political albatross for the ruling party.
As reported in Franks passim, the Dullard show is like a wounded albatross trying to get off the ground.
Oh, and the wandering albatross, king penguins, hundreds of pelagic birds, sea lions, and icebergs will be there, too.
Any sailor who shot an albatross would soak it overnight to get rid of the fishy taste, and make pies from it the next morning.
In the March 2001 issue Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the Polar explorer, is Guest Editor and articles include a look at the plight of the albatross and Britain's sea coalers.
The national debt is an albatross around the president's neck.
Here's just one example: for the South Georgia Patagonian Toothfish fishery, stringent requirements include an independent observer on board every vessel on every trip to record catch data and fishery interactions with seabirds and a range of measures taken during the course of the involvement with the MSC program to reduce seabird by-catch has reduced albatross mortality from several thousand annually to single figures. Chris Ninnes: Protecting B.C. Salmon Stocks
The boldness and visual brilliance that lets posters succeed as ads has been their "albatross."
Like a wingless albatross I plummeted two storeys into an overgrown plumbago.
Conservationists say unregulated fisheries in the southern oceans are endangering the albatross.
The black frigatebirds, with their sharply angled wings, ride rising thermals, whereas the white albatrosses, with their long narrow wings, catch a lift on a cold gale.
It is unusual in that it is a dark albatross; most other albatrosses are predominantly white.
For me, it will always be a trip of a lifetime, as we were soon surrounded by a bewildering assortment of albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels, each a new species for us.
Many of the oceanic birds, the petrels, the albatrosses, the penguins etc., nest on but one or a few islands and are completely dependent for survival on the integrity of these places.
Snohvit will combine production from three gas fields (Snohvit, Albatross, and Askeladd), a pipeline connecting these fields to an onshore receiving terminal near Hammerfest, and a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal. Energy profile of Norway
A wandering albatross (Diomedea exulans) contracts its wings during a mating ritual on South Georgia Island, Antarctica.
Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
Mason says, if elected, he would do a better job in fighting corruption, which he describes as the albatross that has been hanging around the neck of Liberia. Liberian Presidential Hopeful Vows New Economic Policy
It was a supreme moment when a wandering albatross, the bird with the largest wingspan of any bird, arrived!
Cruelty of "aigrette" hunters of albatross killers Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
In 2002, there were four albatrosses on the PGA Tour, versus 40 holes-in-one.
It's sort of important right now for the Albatross to be seaworthy again. THE TREASURED ONE
This approximately black-bird-sized species of the tubenose family, which also includes the albatrosses, fulmarine petrels and storm petrels, breeds from November to February on the Falkland Islands and neighbouring island groups in the South Atlantic. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
Right now we are waiting to find out what our little albatross is going to cost us .... Wrought iron railings
Some are just mudflats, some just sandbanks, many are rocky outcrops and skerries known only to seals, albatrosses, and retired lighthouse-keepers.
But seabirds such as albatrosses and petrels, which have large, tubular nostrils, are known to use scent clues to locate nesting sites and prey out at sea.
The HU16 was later replaced in rescue operations by the HH3 helicopter which could refuel from the HC130 rescue control aircraft, and remain on station as long as the Albatross and recover a downed fler while hovering above him, without risking a landing and takeoff in the open sea. Pleiman, James E.
Together we will forever destroy America and this Healthcare albatross is just the start. Think Progress » Tea Party sign threatens gun violence if health care passes.
Flamingos are conceded by all to be closely linked to pelicans, albatrosses, loons, probably penguins, and the like - the charadriomorph lineage.
Wandering albatross: my bird. Times, Sunday Times
Albatrosses are seabirds with long, narrow wings, a short tail and large webbed feet.
And of course, today we have such adept flyers as the swallows, hummingbirds, falcons, and the soaring albatrosses which demonstrate the great diversity of flight adaptations in birds.
I made eagle on the same hole last year and albatross this year: I'm going to struggle to keep that going next year.
Given that male albatrosses have the same genetic incentives as male elephant seals, why do they behave so differently?
It's sort of important right now for the Albatross to be seaworthy again. THE TREASURED ONE
A beautiful, fine albatross cloth in itself appropriate, but betrimmed with pipings of satin and lace. The Girls at Mount Morris
Despite its high speed and the storminess of the sea, the albatross still managed to successfully locate and capture prey at a rate comparable to that achieved under less extreme conditions.
It's described as a ‘mutinous’ version of the 1798 epic, in which the raddled survivor of a crew lost at sea describes the ghastly consequences of shooting an albatross.
All lives were precious, but the albatross and manatee now outranked the lowly human being. RUSHING TO PARADISE
And it's not just individuals who are trying to avoid having any albatross hung around their neck.
The 10 aircraft made an impressive sight as they hovered in a stack above HMAS Albatross.
For me, it will always be a trip of a lifetime, as we were soon surrounded by a bewildering assortment of albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels, each a new species for us.
Thanks to his albatross and some solid golf thereafter he finished three under.
It will stay with me for the rest of my life and be an albatross around my neck. The Sun
You share it with dolphins and whales and albatrosses and the lonely satellite orbiting overhead.
Gary Evans has been a professional for 13 years and his albatross at the 4th hole was the first of his career.
The botanist had turned against the sanctuary, and had rambled to himself about the seaplane and the albatross, confusing them in his mind. RUSHING TO PARADISE
Among oceangoing avian species, albatrosses and frigatebirds are the quintessential seabirds.
Albatross are faithful birds and only mate once a year with one regular partner.
The one albatross it would be deeply unfair to hang around his neck is the one people seem to have already slain and roped for him.
Albatrosses are seabirds with long, narrow wings, a short tail and large webbed feet.
she was an albatross around his neck
For those who study the science of aerodynamics the albatross has long been a, well, albatross around the neck. Times, Sunday Times
Albatrosses were already aloft, with occasional tropicbirds weaving between them.
The graceful sweep of an albatross as it glides above mountainous waves and through torrential storms has amazed generations of sailors and naturalists. Times, Sunday Times
A tiger shark looking for dinner. In this instance , though , the young albatross succeeded in escaping.
Hundreds of Rockhopper Penguins and Black-browed Albatrosses sit on rocks and tussock clumps, wheezing, clucking, and whistling. Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica
It was like a thousand albatrosses around England supporters' necks every five minutes.
It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for.
In addition to sheathbills, he worked on albatrosses, petrels, penguins, and terrestrial invertebrates.
But the men who rounded the Horn in the old square-riggers were really tough guys and the Association of Cape Horners adopted the albatross as its symbol.
It hit the green and disappeared into the hole for an albatross. Times, Sunday Times
I do not hold that anything happens by chance, or that the albatross is unworthy of being treated with humanity, because it acts in what you call a savage way. The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.
From latitudes 60 to 63 degrees we saw a fair number of birds: southern fulmars, whale birds, molly-mawks, sooty albatrosses, and occasionally South with Scott
To the distinguished ornithologist and broadcaster James Fisher, the fulmar was the nearest thing we had to an albatross in the North Atlantic. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
It is home to many birds such as albatross, penguins, cormorants, gulls and gannets, and the New Zealand fur seal, which can easily be seen from the road lazing around in rocky areas.
The opera's dichotomy of light and darkness was literalized by a massive industrial dome light that hovered over the production like an albatross. Berlin Boos an Inert and Ugly 'Tristan'
Albatrosses fall prey to longlines, baited hooks stretched for miles across the oceans by commercial fishing fleets.
And of course, today we have such adept flyers as the swallows, hummingbirds, falcons, and the soaring albatrosses which demonstrate the great diversity of flight adaptations in birds.
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
“Albatross,” so that she might have been taken for a flaming aerolite. Robur the Conqueror
They marvelled at wandering albatross. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
Intended to lure tuna, swordfish, and other creatures, fish bait on longlines is equally attractive to albatrosses.
Seabirds, particularly albatrosses and petrels, regularly grab the baited hooks.
They were thrilled by the appearance of a l2-person heritage guard, a cannonade fired in salute and a fly past by a Navy Seahawk helicopter from HMAS ALBATROSS.
Midway is home to eighty people and about 400,000 pairs of Laysan albatross, as well as tropic birds, black noddies, white terns, and other nesting and migratory birds. Spoken from the Heart
The albatross has flown-the responsibility now rests on the observers of today and tomorrow to ensure it stays aloft.
It is inaccurate to view Bartlett as a "repudiated" President (unlike, say, Hoover in 1932, Carter in 1980 or Bush in 1992), but the West Wing, not for the first time, did their viewers an important service in pointing to the way that we are disserved by a system that allows a true lame-duck to make very important decisions that can well prove albatrosses around their successors necks. Balkinization
Now, researchers are using stronger bands to track birds like these long-lived albatross.
Male albatrosses share in the incubation of eggs.
WHO needs an albatross around the neck? Times, Sunday Times
BASH (voice-over): Those prejudices led to what he calls his albatross, briefly joining the Ku Klux Klan. CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2006
Any woman who gets obsessed with such things is an albatross around the neck of true women's liberation. Times, Sunday Times
Queen Noor of Jordan is backing an albatross aptly named The Ancient Mariner.
Pteranodon was almost certainly a soaring animal; it used rising warm air to maintain altitude; a common strategy among large winged animals (among birds, albatrosses and vultures are adept at soaring).
Only it grows colder, and grayer, and penguins cry in the night, and huge amphibians moan and slubber, and great albatrosses, gray with storm-battling of the Horn, wheel and veer. CHAPTER XXXIII
With penguins, albatross, falcons, bandicoots and owls about, Mr Ross said the Harbour and foreshores were ‘a great place to work‘.
Given that male albatrosses have the same genetic incentives as male elephant seals, why do they behave so differently?
A pelagic bird, usually seen only from boats, the Black-footed Albatross is solid, brownish-gray, with a pale face and a lighter patch at the base of its tail.
Of course, philosophically speaking, where humans differ from other species is that they are self-conscious, in a way that albatrosses and flatworms just don't seem to be.
You can find this same remarkable system in humans, albatrosses, rattlesnakes, bullfrogs, and all other land vertebrates.
(Soundbite of birdcall) Mr. MEIBURG: Steeple Jason is two-peaks rising out of the South Atlantic and are home to the largest breeding colony of black proud albatrosses in the world. Bird Sounds Recorded from Far Afield
The ultimate target was Primakov, but the Kremlin's strategy was first to blast Luzhkov so as to turn him into a burdensome, malodorous albatross around the former prime minister's neck.
In The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner, the mariner shoots an albatross and all the wind goes out of his sails.
The national debt is an albatross around the president's neck.
But what began as an enlightened innovation has become an albatross around the neck of the free enterprise system.
Dropped marks in the forward line proved costly for the Bears and when the whistle blew to mark the end of the final quarter, Albatross had won 11-6.
Just the one albatross around your neck? Times, Sunday Times
As a result, Taiaroa Head is the only place in the world where albatrosses nest on a mainland.
Now we are stuck, New Orleans hangs like an albatross around our necks to the point where we have to postpose the convention simply because a hurricane is going to make landfall somewhere in the vicinty of New Orleans. Hot Air » Top Picks
In the view of most cockies, some of the finest agricultural land in the state comes with an architectural albatross around it neck in the form of the 1830's house which stands on the land.
Male albatrosses share in the incubation of eggs.
But what began as an enlightened innovation has become an albatross around the neck of the free enterprise system.
He has aced the short third at West Bank and the par-four fifth at East London (the fifth, of course, an even rarer albatross) in orthodox fashion during a long and distinguished career on South Africa's fairways.
Johnny Burkemeister, lead vocals and flutist of the band Albatross Antics, sits on his bed thinking in silence. Albatross Antics
Given that male albatrosses have the same genetic incentives as male elephant seals, why do they behave so differently?
The only specimens of quadrupeds, birds, fish and cetacea were a few wild boars, stormy petrels, albatrosses, perch and seals. In Search of the Castaways
Given that male albatrosses have the same genetic incentives as male elephant seals, why do they behave so differently?
Flamingos are conceded by all to be closely linked to pelicans, albatrosses, loons, probably penguins, and the like - the charadriomorph lineage.
The "Albatross," like a huge coleopter, glided gently over the mighty city. Robur the Conqueror
The Black-footed Albatross forages while swimming, dabbling like a duck to reach food near the surface of the water.
Fishing experts estimate that about 60,000 sea birds including about 2,000 giant petrels and around 10,000 albatrosses are killed this way every year.
In the Antarctic wildlife, there are as many as five species of albatross, including the huge wandering and royal albatrosses, as well as several species of prions, stormpetrels, petrels, diving petrels, and shearwaters.
Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
Penguins skip from wave to wave while wandering albatross carve graceful paths across the foaming peaks. Times, Sunday Times
In addition to the wandering, we also were entranced by royal and shy albatrosses, as well as Cape and giant petrels, fairy prions and fluttering shearwaters.
Since then, with issues ranging from the environment to social justice to human rights, the leaden center has been an albatross weighing heavily against progress.
If there are any birds, it is the strange and heavy penguin, the passing albatross, or the Mother Cary's chicken, which has been called the humming bird of ocean, and here finds a place for its young. Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic
The world's biggest seabird, the wandering albatross, is in peril because of long-line fishing.
If liberality ever became an albatross round his neck he'd probably be stuck with it. THE SCAR
Is the wingspan of the wandering albatross really as impossibly wide as that bottom plank? Times, Sunday Times
ESA-listed birds in Washington marine waters are the marbled murrelet, bald eagle, brown pelican, short-tailed albatross, and western snowy plover.
Instead, they see it as a problem, as a liability, as an albatross around our financial necks.
It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross.
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
And albatrosses, which stay together their entire lives, keep it interesting by entertaining each other with goofy ritual dancing.
In the year before Gould's arrival a thousand albatrosses were killed on Albatross Island alone.
Certain American radial engines were made previous to 1914, the principal being the Albatross six-cylinder engines of 50 and 100 horse-powers. A History of Aeronautics
Whether strolling the islands 'pristine beaches, searching for the spectacular waved albatross, having a "chat" with a particularly friendly sea lion, or snorkeling with Galápagos penguins, a glorious feeling of uninhibitedness abounds. WN.com - Photown News
He could only say that he "kent" the baron and had met his Albatross before. Tam o' the Scoots
It is inaccurate to view Bartlett as a "repudiated" President (unlike, say, Hoover in 1932, Carter in 1980 or Bush in 1992), but the West Wing, not for the first time, did their viewers an important service in pointing to the way that we are disserved by a system that allows a true lame-duck to make very important decisions that can well prove albatrosses around their successors necks. Balkinization
The glider is a Wings Albatross (no connection to Enterprise Wings) with a sail area of over 200 square feet and no battens.
Pairs of streamers are suspended above the longline, creating an ‘alley’ that albatrosses are reluctant to enter.
The graceful sweep of an albatross as it glides above mountainous waves and through torrential storms has amazed generations of sailors and naturalists. Times, Sunday Times
Or is it just a giant albatross around my neck? Christianity Today
Their immaculate feathers impervious to sleet and rain, a pair of white-capped albatross engage in affectionate courtship rituals.
Taking measures to prevent the accidental capture of birds benefits both the albatross and the fishermen, since they can catch more fish if the hooks are not catching birds by mistake.
On the cliffs above the colonies, we encountered nests of the light-mantled sooty albatross; on the plateau, huge wandering albatross chicks sat like white, fluffy lighthouses.
The so-called by-catch includes sharks, turtles and sea birds such as albatrosses. Times, Sunday Times
A birdwatcher 65 million years ago could have seen relatives of today's loons, geese and ducks, albatrosses and petrels, and gulls and shorebirds, and possibly other familiar birds as well.
In general, larger birds like the albatross tend to live longer than smaller species.
Albatrosses fall prey to longlines, baited hooks stretched for miles across the oceans by commercial fishing fleets.
No-one is hanging albatrosses around the necks of the writers or of the responders.
It's not an albatross around my neck. Times, Sunday Times
You share it with dolphins and whales and albatrosses and the lonely satellite orbiting overhead.
The “Albatross,” like a huge coleopter, glided gently over the mighty city. Robur the Conqueror
In the modified stableford format, an albatross is worth eight points, an eagle five and a birdie two, while a par is worth nothing and players lose one point for a bogey and two for multiple bogeys.
Well, their closest relative has often been suggested as the petrels, albatross and shearwaters, but we don't know just how close these two groups are.
Without the prodigious coolness of the engineer, who reversed the gyratory motion of the fore propeller and converted it into a suspensory screw, the men of the “Albatross” would all have been asphyxiated by the fall. Robur the Conqueror
Two years ago, scientists described 5-million-year-old albatross fossils representing five different species.
Many of these vessels head for the southern oceans - to the major albatross feeding grounds.
It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross.
It is here we find the boobies, shearwaters, gannets, petrels, and the albatross.
Whether this trope works organically to advance the plot or becomes an authorial albatross is beside the point; as in Kafka, whose sentences Krauss's bear an intentional stylistic resemblance to, or such neo-realistic films as Fellini's Nights of Cabiria, "Great House" builds more toward developing a theme than a plot. Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed
For me, it will always be a trip of a lifetime, as we were soon surrounded by a bewildering assortment of albatrosses, shearwaters and petrels, each a new species for us.
The Short-tailed Albatross is an extremely rare bird.
The national debt is an albatross around the president's neck.
Literally hundreds of millions of hooks are baited on long lines, and albatrosses have come to see fishing boats as a food source - albeit a very dangerous one.
However, the average student, in order simply to meet the expense of university education - even with parental support - is still burdened by the albatross of a £12,000 debt on leaving.
Our only companion is the wandering albatross, which glides effortlessly and gracefully behind the yacht.
All 21 species of albatross are now on the international Red List as a result of being caught and killed on longlines.

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