How To Use Seagull In A Sentence

  • The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
  • They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
  • Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs
  • The Seagulls had scored 10 goals without reply from three previous league and cup home games this term. Times, Sunday Times
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  • I was merrily typing away to friends in some primitive chat room on my IBM XT (super nerd), listening to some music (probably Flock of Seagulls -- nerd++), and watching Back to the Future with the sound off (neeeeerrrrrrrd). Archive 2006-08-01
  • The tide slapped against the dock wall, and seagulls croaked as they bobbed on the waves, or flew above their heads.
  • Although terns are closely related to seagulls, sharing a general black-and-grey pattern of plumage with their cousins, they have slim silvery bodies and deeply forked tails.
  • And they have to do this with the close attention of a flock of hungry seagulls. The Sun
  • The raider called at The Seagull pub at Seawick Holiday Village, St Osyth, claiming to be making a delivery to the site.
  • The red-clawed seagulls circled for a long time over the shell of the upturned ship.
  • Seagulls, 99s, one-dayers and a genteel four-day fixture — howzat? Times, Sunday Times
  • Circling seagulls swooped down and ate what Agnes had disgorged.
  • In the previous episode during the first dance Claire captures Nate's image as he contemplates a seagull picking at the wedding cake.
  • It was not just the seagulls who were lacking a sunny disposition. Times, Sunday Times
  • About 50 seconds to 6pm, this seagull arrived and started pecking at the camera and it had the beadiest huge eyes you've ever seen in your life. All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
  • It was a bit scary because the large ferries were steaming past us and at one point we were even dive-bombed by seagulls.
  • SO whose side are you on in this intensifying conflict between man and seagull? The Sun
  • ‘Wanderlust’ depicts a man's profile with seagulls flying in the background.
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.
  • Seagulls jabbed at the fish that lost their shelter.
  • A few seagulls circled, squawked at Joe, and two pigeons on the crane's jib watched him intently.
  • From our offices, we could hear the call of seagulls and the sound of halyards slapping against the masts of sailboats docked alongside the wharf, one of which belonged to Bernie and was available for our use.
  • Seaside visitors looking at the seagulls often see a rather odd one gliding by on stiff, straight wings. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are knee-deep in gelid gray water, with food and clothing, skinned seagulls and whale blubber, sheepskins and oilskins - the ancient flotsam of death at sea - sloshing about them.
  • Large, puffy clouds hung in the air and seagulls flew around in the pale blue sky.
  • Lillian watched her stand on the edge of a gray boarded dock playing with seagulls and a particularly irked crab.
  • Acrobatic seagulls were giving a fascinating performance of fancy somersaults over the glistering, watery carpet.
  • Occasionally, I can hear a car drive past or the raucous squawk of a seagull in search of a discarded fish supper.
  • Crows, seagulls, collared doves, magpies, and large flocks of starlings - all squawking, hooting and messing on everyone's property.
  • It was not just the seagulls who were lacking a sunny disposition. Times, Sunday Times
  • According to Dr Briggs, Maggie and Moira had formed a highly charged emotional attachment while Moira was still at Seagull. DEAD BEAT
  • Sam awoke to the sound of ocean waves crashing against the earth and seagulls squalling over head.
  • The insects had been feeding on a dead seagull on the roof and found their way to a corridor. The Sun
  • 'About 50 seconds to six o'clock this seagull arrived and started pecking at the camera and it had the beadiest huge eyes you've ever seen in your life.' Home | Mail Online
  • Residents quite rightly complain of flies, noxious odours, dust, seagulls and noise pollution from the site.
  • The strike ace netted his fifth goal of the campaign to keep the Seagulls flying high as surprise early-season leaders. The Sun
  • But it's very difficult on Carnac Island to move more than three feet without treading on a seagull chick.
  • On this day, with its strong swells and a stiff afternoon breeze, seagulls just sat on the surface.
  • Meanwhile, seagulls the size of winged chihuahuas stare malevolently down from steepled sandstone spires.
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
  • Hundreds of species of birds, such as seagulls, herons, starlings, sparrows and many others, live or often visit mangrove forest areas.
  • Seagulls prefer not to swoop down if there's a risk of them hitting a hard vertical surface. Times, Sunday Times
  • Note the seagull crashing into the sea ending, as Donny's ashes are blown into their faces.
  • These seagulls can hardly be called sea birds any longer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Producers are also worried that the area is a haven for screeching birds like seagulls. The Sun
  • There will be no indigenous population except seagulls. Times, Sunday Times
  • Seagulls boss had to be talked throwing striker Knight the team bus following row on the way to on Monday. The Sun
  • The strike ace netted his fifth goal of the campaign to keep the Seagulls flying high as surprise early-season leaders. The Sun
  • Whether hunting seagulls for much-needed nutrition, or helping each other out of dangerous situations, their exploits make for exciting viewing.
  • I made an exposure on Seagull, but to keep the contrast under control I was developing in Adam's Ansco 130 Variant, which has metol and glycin and gives a rather soft, warm rendering.
  • The track is immediately set apart by the awkward opening sounds of seagulls and a garbage truck in reverse gear, before it launches into a menacing guitar riff.
  • The loudest things we hear are seagulls, so it is a perfect counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
  • A seagull that was trapped for six days on a window ledge on the fifth floor of a building in Liverpool has been rescued by firefighters. Times, Sunday Times
  • They lay on the firm sands, listening to the plaintive cry of the seagulls.
  • Paint the horizon pale green with diluted colouring, and little black seagulls in the sky if liked.
  • A seagull swooped down in front of her car, causing her to slam on the brakes.
  • It was not just the seagulls who were lacking a sunny disposition. Times, Sunday Times
  • They lay on the firm sands, listening to the plaintive cry of the seagulls.
  • Up close the island turned out to be covered in thorny scrub and seagulls’ nests. Going Coastal
  • The tide slapped against the dock wall, and seagulls croaked as they bobbed on the waves, or flew above their heads.
  • But way off alone, out by himself beyond boat and shore, Jonathan Livingston Seagull was practicing.
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
  • A swarm of seagulls circle aloft, darting down in random attempts to steal a flounder.
  • Even the chickens are subdued, and they are generally about as subduable as seagulls. The Herald-Mail Online
  • Was very quick (took literally half an hour for 700 words) even though I had to re-write a few bits that were simply wrong (saying, for instance, that a "seagull gave birth and knowing it was going to die etc." when sea gulls are most definitely oviparous and not viviparous). Breakfast in Bed
  • Sunday, July 26, 2009 the hills visit oregon - day two, part one my sister, her husband and their two boys, bryce (5) and charlie (3), visited oregon for the first time this week. we drove out to rockaway beach for the first two nights and stayed in a cute little beach house called the seagull's nest. early sunday morning, we took leila out for a chilly and foggy romp on the beach. The hills visit oregon - day two, part one
  • Aside from pigeons, chickadees, seagulls, and the occasional bluejay, we city-dwellers don't usually get to see a variety of bird species.
  • Since a seagull never speaks back to the council flock, Jonathan's voice was raised in exhortation: Irresponsibility, my brothers? The End of the Work Ethic
  • Jonathan Seagull exploded in midair and smashed down into a brick - hard sea.
  • Producers are also worried that the area is a haven for screeching birds like seagulls. The Sun
  • Even the seagulls looked as if they had been put through the launderette for the occasion. Andrew Gale puts wind in Yorkshire sails against Worcestershire
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
  • If whoever bought it had an unsavoury reputation it wouldn't do much harm to the seagulls or Brent geese.
  • And today, if you go to Salt Lake City, you can see a monument with seagulls on top of it.
  • The Liffey flowed adjacently, by the steeples of Christchurch and Adam-and-Eve's, a dirty, eddying watercourse serenaded by the seagulls and the calls of the barge-men through its mizzle and stench. Joseph O'Connor: 'It was a voice that opened worlds'
  • It was not just the seagulls who were lacking a sunny disposition. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the while being watched by hungry seagulls. The Sun
  • These seagulls can hardly be called sea birds any longer. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was almost a foot long, made of ash wood with beautiful engravings of seagulls and sailor knots and braided ropes on it.
  • A pair of seagulls were promenading along the balustrade that ran around the perimeter of the balcony garden, watching us with beady eyes.
  • The machine shuddered, then swayed as if trying to regain its balance, there was a loud creaking from the metal plates and the entwined canes, and suddenly, as if it were being sucked in by a luminous vortex, it went up making two complete turns, and no sooner had it risen above the walls of the coach-house than it recovered its balance, raised its head like a seagull, and soared like an arrow straight up into the sky. José Saramago - Excerpt from "Baltasar and Blimunda"
  • On the grass behind the beach families munch on fish and chips, chasing off the chubby seagulls.
  • Seagulls really are disgusting, nasty, vile animals, naturally horrible, and made worse by hanging out with humans presumably.
  • The seagulls fluttered overhead
  • The screech of a seagull echoed in her ears.
  • But his presence led to an unprecedented incident on the field in the Seagulls-Apollon game.
  • Overhead a rogue seagull stands on the wind, silent, but a sign there's wild weather on the way.
  • SO whose side are you on in this intensifying conflict between man and seagull? The Sun
  • Ian Rickson, who staged the noisy Royal Court production of "The Seagull" that transferred to Broadway in 2008, is grappling here with a piece of material better suited to his overemphatic directorial style. Their Lives of Loud Desperation
  • In the meantime, I have just received PopBitch's weekly email in which they say that happy slapping is a thing of the past and the new craze among schoolkids is Seagulling. Simon Hughes v Ann Widdecombe on Question Time Tonight
  • Certainly, the outdoor nature of the shoot offers up some unwanted ambiance (overly loud seagulls, microphone-flaunting winds), but this is not the reason for any aural concern.
  • The roots of seagull management can be traced back to the days when "micromanager" was the worst non-expletive you could utter behind your boss 'back. Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today
  • But an end to the dive-bombing urban seagull could be in sight after the Scottish Executive decided to spend £10,000 researching a solution to the winged menace.
  • The cries of the seagulls gave this part of the harbour a fascinating character all of its own.
  • These seagulls are feeding on the effluent from the farm and are also feeding on the food and offal associated with the caged minks.
  • The Liffey flowed adjacently, by the steeples of Christchurch and Adam-and-Eve's, a dirty, eddying watercourse serenaded by the seagulls and the calls of the barge-men through its mizzle and stench. Joseph O'Connor: 'It was a voice that opened worlds'
  • The oil slick contaminated about three kilometres of waterway killing about 150 sticklebacks - small fish renowned for being tolerant to pollution - a seagull and a duck.
  • One idea that remained on paper only was to train seagulls to land on periscopes at sea thus giving away the position of a submarine!
  • Fisherman and a seagull sit on a pier in the San Francisco Bay.
  • It was a bit scary because the large ferries were steaming past us and at one point we were even dive-bombed by seagulls.
  • And they have to do this with the close attention of a flock of hungry seagulls. The Sun
  • It says all you need to know about this match that the local seagulls provided the best entertainment. Times, Sunday Times
  • A sudden multiplicity of voices would suggest a court or crowd scene; birdsong, a garden; wind and rain, a heath; waves and seagulls, a seashore.
  • Seaside visitors looking at the seagulls often see a rather odd one gliding by on stiff, straight wings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another striking painting is of seagulls swarming over a garbage dump.
  • In the corner of his parents 'bedroom he saw decayed seagull carcasses, gnats and maggots on lusterless eyes, globs of sea jelly, tangles of seaweed. Wintering at Montauk
  • Here, you'll pass old men and boys fishing from the rocks, people running with their dogs, and seagulls splashing in the water.
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
  • The one bird I do find unattractive is the menacing seagull, particularly the alpha individuals who bully the others away from sources of food by craning their necks and gargling like their throat has been slit.
  • SO whose side are you on in this intensifying conflict between man and seagull? The Sun
  • It is feared that low-flying seagulls could disrupt events such as beach volleyball.
  • A woman has been attacked by seagulls in her back garden so many times that she now wears a hard hat to hang out the washing. Times, Sunday Times
  • We left the green and its old houses and found ourselves on a flat plateau of pastureland with sheep, seagulls, fieldfares and long views over Bilsdale to the east.
  • A dry northern wind at Christmas brings clouds of seagulls to Cambridge, landing them at 10 A.M. upon Harvard's stadium.
  • The cast includes rabbits, pigs, cows, cats, scorpions, seagulls, snails, penguins and bats.
  • Before he learned this, however, he found that moving more than one feather at that speed will spin you like a rifle ball... and Jonathan had flown the first aerobatics of any seagull on earth.
  • All the while being watched by hungry seagulls. The Sun
  • There is a seagull perched atop the mast.
  • The cries of the seagulls gave this part of the harbour a fascinating character all of its own.
  • This is the 1st frequency for Mazaj FM and seagulls in general outside the Greater Amman Area. and this will add some change on the radio scene in the northern jordanian city of irbid, since Mazaj FM is a differently themed radio station than the other operating ones in Irbid area. Qwaider Planet
  • Above the east stand of the ground, fully a hundred yards or so from where I stood, flew four seagulls, and their cries were all that broke the silence.
  • They wrote that'there will be no indigenous population except seagulls '. Times, Sunday Times
  • The loudest things we hear are seagulls, so it is a perfect counterpoint. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are also clouds of long distortion seagulls, fluttering around at sunset, calling to each other, their voices disappearing into the wind.
  • The last thing I see as we soar towards the gap is a flock of seagulls flying above us. Times, Sunday Times
  • I don't think they're fakes in the sense that they're either glorified frisbees that someone tossed in the air and snapped pictures of, or sorry parge a seagull. Posthuman Blues
  • There will be no indigenous people except the seagulls. Times, Sunday Times
  • Likewise, abstract designs derived from dry reeds, postage cancellations, typography, wire fences, waves and seagulls fill the spiral form of Snail Maze.
  • As we paddled across clear water, we caught sight of purple jellyfish below us, herons and oystercatchers on adjacent rocks and flocks of seagulls.
  • Up along the bay still seagulling like a mix of Welsh and Irish, bible black and pudding with fingers in his mouth - maybe his own this time, the slavering butcher, the killer in some eyes.
  • About 50 seconds to 6 o’clock this seagull arrived and started pecking at the camera and it had the beadiest huge eyes you’ve ever seen in your life.” Giant Sea Gull Walks Behind TV News Anchor
  • Hopes of completing the nation's first memorial to the ill-fated HMAS Sydney could rest on the wings of a solid silver seagull.
  • A seagull swooped down in front of her car, causing her to slam on the brakes.
  • Swans, geese, seagulls, ducks and one giant heron maculated the lake in spots of white, brown, and grey.
  • I wondered whether it includes such poems, or only nice ones, the way the RSPB is really the Royal Society for the Protection of Nice Birds – no crows, ravens, magpies, or seagulls need apply. Archive 2009-01-01
  • A blessed bird-lover from elsewhere in Canada who adores feeding stray pets, pigeons, and pooping seagulls (also known in impolite circles as the ‘trash cans of the cosmos’).
  • Seagulls boss had to be talked throwing striker Knight the team bus following row on the way to on Monday. The Sun
  • We crossed over onto the prom, squeezing between the bumpers and tailgates of near stationary cars with less grace and confidence than the mocking seagulls.
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.
  • The last thing I see as we soar towards the gap is a flock of seagulls flying above us. Times, Sunday Times
  • On a brick wall next to a bodega was a mural of a young brown-skinned man with a black, seagull-shaped mustache. The Big Scam
  • That has proved as chancy as standing below a seagull and scarcely more rewarding.
  • The sound of the howling waves: the bravest winds and the seagulls above my head made me realize that I was numb in not only my actions - but also my mind.
  • A seagull struggled to cry over the gavotte that the school's ancient pipes were playing near me.
  • I've seen sparrows, dirty pigeons, doves, screeching seagulls, nasty crows and the occasional hawk.
  • It was at this point that he uttered his now infamous statement that ‘when the seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea’.
  • ‘There are an enormous number of seagulls on that part of Long Island Sound,’ he says.
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.The seagulls fly off, the waves roll away and we depart.
  • Alla Verlotsky, founder and president of the New York-based Seagull Films, which programs and distributes Soviet and Russian cinema and is dedicated to increasing awareness of its rich variety, said by phone that it's a stage of Mosfilm's development coming from being a main star-making studio. A Russian Titan Embraces the Web
  • Seagulls, darting by with their snow white feathers, squalled and shrieked as they passed and the salty ocean air rushed into the building with every gust of wind.
  • Seagulls yelped in the distance above the sound of the crashing waves and flew among the turrets and battlements of the dark castle.
  • When I was twelve I sat in the streamliner alone with a shoebox of sandwiches and deviled eggs my mother made, and ate everything right away as I headed north by the Sound where the trestles of derelict trolley lines roosted nations of seagulls. Homestead
  • Rumours of discontent swirl round the Berlin Philharmonic like seagulls round a fishing trawler. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kittiwakes, seagulls that normally nest on cliffs, are now installed as regular guests on a warehouse ledge.
  • When I was twelve I sat in the streamliner alone with a shoebox of sandwiches and deviled eggs my mother made, and ate everything right away as I headed north by the Sound where the trestles of derelict trolley lines roosted nations of seagulls. Homestead
  • Meanwhile, crowds pack her restaurant, watching lilliputian fishing boats nosing into the breeze, fishermen working over their gear, seagulls white in the sun.
  • Seagulls from Cork harbour were flying overhead and the dawn was breaking.
  • The seagulls swirled in aerial combat over the barges.
  • Seagulls keened and skied, pelicans bobbed on the swells, sandpipers left sharp three-toed tracks along the tidal margin.
  • Plus peregrine falcons, foxes, badgers, deer, seagulls, otters, kittiwakes and ring-necked parakeets. Times, Sunday Times
  • They lay on the firm sands, listening to the plaintive cry of the seagulls.
  • It is feared that low-flying seagulls could disrupt events such as beach volleyball.
  • Just to Doremi's side a seagull was flying, keeping time with the ship as both moved north, with the sun to their starboard beam.
  • The seagull is also known as the mew, likewise an imitative name. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 3
  • Aviation Industry Corporation of China's General Aircraft says it plans to roll out one of its four-seat, piston-engined Seagull 300s on 30 August and fly the light amphibious aircraft on the same day or soon after. HEADLINES
  • The insects had been feeding on a dead seagull on the roof and found their way to a corridor. The Sun
  • They also collected seagull eggs, fresh water lobster, whitebait, pipi, mussels, fat hen and watercress.
  • They wrote that'there will be no indigenous population except seagulls '. Times, Sunday Times
  • The ducks, geese, seagulls and coots looked hardened to this sort of intrusion, coolest of all was a cormorant that stood one-legged on an island and stretched its wings in a black, immobile pose.
  • The Seagulls had scored 10 goals without reply from three previous league and cup home games this term. Times, Sunday Times
  • Alexander Tzonis compares the building's 217-foot-wide mechanized brise-soleil (or sunscreen) to "the wings of a great seagull. The Bird Man
  • Like the meeting of the seagulls and the waves we meet and come near.
  • He yawned, and when he opened his mouth, he heard the distant sounds of surf booming against a beach, the faint screech of seagulls.
  • The track for that was the sound of the ocean, with a few seagulls in the background.
  • About 50 seconds to 6 o'clock this seagull arrived and started pecking at the camera and it had the beadiest huge eyes you've ever seen in your life. '' AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
  • It turns out that these days, when the seagull follows the trawler, he is merely looking for a decent kickabout on the shore. Times, Sunday Times
  • There will be no indigenous population except seagulls. Times, Sunday Times
  • The harsh cry of a seagull took him out of himself; the soft rolling susurrus of the surf stole into his consciousness. FLOATING CITY
  • Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs.
  • From his mustache like a drunken seagull to his preference for Cuban papaya to his “leedle by leedle”. The Nervous Breakdown
  • The USS Long Island was this country's first escort carrier and when it was commissioned in mid-1941, its air wing consisted of a dozen Seagulls fitted with land gear and arrestor hooks with the new designation SOC - 3A.
  • There's always something to look at: seagulls, pelicans, colorful people in sailboats and on windsurfers, kids playing with dogs, or just the wind in the grass.
  • There will be no indigenous people except the seagulls. Times, Sunday Times

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