noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
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Their long slender beak also assists in capturing their prey.
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Mornings, fog shrouded silent egrets, their long beaks needling the silvery surface of the bay.
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Some were already asleep in the long grass, beaks tucked under wings.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fine south doorway has some strange looking beak heads in the richly moulded arch.
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A nestling's gape, or wide open beak , provides a stimulus to the parents to feed it.
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Cormorants can be pretty nasty with their beaks.
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Her severed head flopped on a bin of guts, yellow beak in a grimace - take me with you?
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Its surface is broken with coots, paddling away, dipping their beaks and twitching the water down their throats.
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Some were already asleep in the long grass, beaks tucked under wings.
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The movement inside her filled her completely, an endless fluttering of wings, intense and urgent pecking of beaks.
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The swallows came and went like carpenters, their beaks full of twigs.