Pronunciation of the English word beaks.
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1. | Woodpeckers peck tree trunks with their long pointed beaks and eat insects found there. | |
2. | Pelicans have large beaks. | |
3. | The great swans swam round the new-comer, and stroked his neck with their beaks, as a welcome. | |
4. | Small crows have the largest beaks. | |
5. | Gulls have strong and fairly long beaks. | |
6. | Toucans have large, colorful beaks. | |
7. | The famous white-sand beaches of Hawaii, for example, actually come from the poop of parrotfish. The fish bite and scrape algae off of rocks and dead corals with their parrot-like beaks, grind up the inedible calcium-carbonate reef material (made mostly of coral skeletons) in their guts, and then excrete it as sand. | |
8. | Scarce out of sight of Sicily, they set / their sails to sea, and merrily ploughed the main, / with brazen beaks, when Juno, harbouring yet / within her breast the ever-ranking pain, / mused thus: "Must I then from the work refrain, / nor keep this Trojan from the Latin throne, / baffled, forsooth, because the Fates constrain?" | |
9. | Birds have beaks. | |
10. | Shut your filthy beaks, you fucking birds! |