Beak is an English word of 4 letters with synonyms like mouth or nose. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Beak in a sentence
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Beak meaning
- A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
- A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
- The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
Synonyms of Beak
Using Beak
- The main meaning on this page is: A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc. | A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc. | The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the Hemiptera.
- Useful related words include: mouth, olfactory organ, nose, schnoz.
- In the example corpus, beak often appears in combinations such as: the beak, beak and, its beak.
Context around Beak
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Beak
- In this selection, "beak" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, yellow, tipped, looking, shapes and appears stand out and add context to how "beak" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include suggesting that beak shapes evolved and the beak of each. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "beak" sits close to words such as adjudged, aggravating and alamos, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with beak
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But that broken-looking beak is meant to be exactly the way it is. (14 words)
There is an opening in the beak for pouring the oil on to the Coronation Spoon. (16 words)
As I observe all of these birds, it makes me wonder how they eat with just a beak. (18 words)
Sticky Beak is Tiger Lane's home of Asian fried chicken, Inari Express is the little sister of Tiger Lane's Inari restaurant and is offering up Japanese street food, and, Blowfish is the place to go for hand rolls and poke bowls. (43 words)
When the dove withdrew its beak the pope spoke and the secretary took down his words; but when he became silent the servant again applied his eye to the hole and saw the dove had replaced its beak between his lips. (41 words)
According to Kentish legend, the (pronounced “chuff”) obtained its bright red beak and legs by wading in the blood of Thomas Becket, the archbishop murdered in Canterbury cathedral by four knights from Henry II’s household. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Another distinguishing feature of the immature bald eagle over the mature bird is its black, yellow-tipped beak; the mature eagle has a fully yellow beak.
The beak of each species is suited to its preferred food, suggesting that beak shapes evolved by natural selection.
The beak of each species is suited to the food available in its particular environment, suggesting that beak shapes evolved by natural selection.
Unlike normal birds this beak appears to be only used for smelling, and cannot be used as a mouth, the Rito have a more human-like mouth below this beak.
When the dove withdrew its beak the pope spoke and the secretary took down his words; but when he became silent the servant again applied his eye to the hole and saw the dove had replaced its beak between his lips.
An interesting trait of the eclectus parrot is that they are the most sexually dimorphic of the parrot species, with the males being easily recognisable from their vibrant emerald green plumage and yellow beak.
But that broken-looking beak is meant to be exactly the way it is.
His beak could be used as a powerful spear, and he could use his wings to produce powerful projected slashes.
Lyn McPherson, one of the volunteers, shared in an interview, “One male dolphin brings in objects on his rostrum or beak, and then he carefully presents them to us.
Made from deliciously smooth 40 per cent milk chocolate, each rotund penguin is decorated with a white chocolate tummy, dark chocolate eyes and a colourful yellow beak.
Sticky Beak is Tiger Lane's home of Asian fried chicken, Inari Express is the little sister of Tiger Lane's Inari restaurant and is offering up Japanese street food, and, Blowfish is the place to go for hand rolls and poke bowls.
The injury to Max’s back was found to be ‘thin but very deep’ and was consistent with being caused by a seagull’s beak or claw.
There is an opening in the beak for pouring the oil on to the Coronation Spoon.
They do that to clean their beaks by rubbing them on a branch or any other surface from side to tip of the beak.
This awesome handmade psychedelic bird mask opens and shuts its giant beak as the wearer opens and shuts their mouth.
According to Kentish legend, the (pronounced “chuff”) obtained its bright red beak and legs by wading in the blood of Thomas Becket, the archbishop murdered in Canterbury cathedral by four knights from Henry II’s household.
An aversion to blokes in fishnet stockings may be stuffy and judgmental but it should not land you before the beak.
As I observe all of these birds, it makes me wonder how they eat with just a beak.
As the organism grows, it develops features characteristic of a human: hands instead of tails, legs instead of paws, and a mouth instead of a beak.
Bob carefully picked it up by his beak and deposited on a post, six posts away from the nest.
Common combinations with beak
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the beak 24×
- beak and 14×
- its beak 12×
- beak is 8×
- beak of 6×
- beak to 6×
- beak the 4×
- and beak 4×
- yellow beak 3×
- their beak 3×