eyrie

How To Use eyrie In A Sentence

• In each case the eyrie was a flat platform of sticks about twice the size of a kite's nest. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
• From his rockface eyrie he scoured the internet for advice on healing his ravaged fingertips. Times, Sunday Times
• From 1960 to 1962, Kretschmar and Leonovich found that 19 of 23 Peregrine Falcon eyries in the Pyasina basin were associated with Red-breasted Geese, as were 11 of 12 eyries on the Pura River in 1996.
• Climb the rest of the chimney more easily (but with interest) past the chockstones and into the Eeyrie to belay.
• I found an unobtrusive niche, a little cliff garden of thrift and sea campion which gave me a vee-shaped eyrie over the water.
• The roar of the sea had long announced their approach to the cliffs, on the summit of which, like the nest of some sea-eagle, the founder of the fortalice had perched his eyrie. The Bride of Lammermoor
• A recent report of poisoned pigeons being found pegged out close to Peregrine eyries in Wales was almost certainly the work of pigeon fanciers.
• From his rockface eyrie he scoured the internet for advice on healing his ravaged fingertips. Times, Sunday Times
• Whatever they lost in the cessation of uncomfortable communion at the eyrie, or lair, of the Dragon was more than made up for by the sub-rosaceous, or semi-clandestine, character of the intercourse that was left. Somehow Good
• That impressive collection includes historical images from the 1930s and 1940s of many of the eyries formerly occupied by the eastern ‘duck hawks.’