How to Use buzzard in a Sentence

buzzard

noun
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  • They were told to watch for circling buzzards and to check foul-smelling trash cans.
    — Max Londberg and Laura Bauer, kansascity.com, 7 June 2017
  • And birds of prey like buzzards, sparrowhawks, barn owls, and tawny owls.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Just hours old, the little guy was exposed to the elements and just a few hours away from the buzzards circling.
    — Angela Helm, The Root, 22 May 2018
  • Over the years, Kotulak has seen just about every sort of buzzard fan.
    — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • That could be some sort of vision, a buzzard eating a dead bobcat.
    — al, 21 Mar. 2020
  • The black vulture has a black head and is different from the turkey vulture, which is the bird most of us in Alabama call a buzzard.
    — Ike Morgan | Imorgan@al.com, al, 3 July 2023
  • And other teams continue to circle over the Pistons' roster like buzzards in the desert.
    — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2020
  • There follow chapters about somewhat less likely things, like the fate of someone raised by buzzards.
    — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
  • Weekend 1 of the rest of our vile virus lives perched like a buzzard over our collective behavior this weekend.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 May 2020
  • Twenty-six bird species in the world are called buzzards, including the honey-buzzard, the lizard buzzard, the forest buzzard and the long-legged buzzard.
    — Jerry Butler, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
  • The new series is set on the same planet of Thra many years before the events of the movie, but has familiar characters — the kind, elf-like Gelflings and the evil dinosaur-buzzard Skeksis.
    — Mark Kennedy, chicagotribune.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • These were honey-buzzards, heading south to winter quarters in Africa.
    — Jenny Uglow, WSJ, 5 July 2018
  • Other considerations could be the blue jay or the buzzard.
    — cleveland.com, 23 May 2017
  • The trading deadline: If the Angels are out of it in July, buzzards will be circling around their roster looking to pick off some of the impending free agents.
    — Jeff Fletcher, Orange County Register, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Like buzzards and vultures, condors are scavengers—aka nature’s clean-up crew—that feast on the remains of dead animals.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • If Hardy is capable enough to impress the old buzzard, he’s got some good knowledge, some good endorsement going for him.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2022
  • By December, all that remain are the clean-up crew — hawks, owls, buzzards — the noisemakers — crows, jays, woodpeckers — and the winter flock of dusky little ones.
    — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Dogs and buzzards fought over a dead cat in the middle of the street, directly across from an officer who watched the ferocious struggle from a barred window, twirling the ends of his moustache.
    — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 July 2022
  • The downtown Holiday Inn gig where a pair of giant buzzards perched beside him on his scaffolding looking for a meal 20 flights up.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Hunters and conservationists opposed to the change in the code are concerned that scavengers like coyotes and buzzards may be exposed to the poison and spread it throughout the ecosystem.
    — Aaron Sidder, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • Hunters and conservationists opposed to the change in the code are concerned that scavengers like coyotes and buzzards may be exposed to the poison and spread it throughout the ecosystem.
    — Aaron Sidder, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • For 10 days, the people of Tefé have awakened to a terrible sight: the carcasses of pink river dolphins floating in Lake Tefé, food for circling buzzards.
    — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Health, sequencing, buzzard’s luck, bad decisions and a snowball type of effect can bury a team already gasping for air.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
  • As military governor of the city, so the legend goes, Funston presided over a clean-up so thorough that buzzards left town, since there was nothing left to scavenge.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The buzzards stalking the household ought to inspire a shiver of dread, but the actors in capes and giant bird masks feel terribly earthbound and on-the-nose as predatory symbols of bigotry.
    — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 23 July 2019
  • There were also five monkeys, an emu, a pelican, two buzzards, two porcupines, two tortoises, and a doe.
    — Richard Tenorio, National Geographic, 26 Sep. 2016
  • In February of 1994, two hunters found the unidentified man’s body after noticing buzzards circling in the area, authorities said.
    — Andrea Cavallier, NBC News, 14 Feb. 2020
  • If there are fewer small mammals, there is less food for their natural predators, such as red foxes, steppe polecats, upland buzzards, brown bears and mountain weasels.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 24 May 2023
  • But others, like the huge, reticent king buzzard and spectacled owl, are rare, exotic hunters that Minnesotans never see.
    — Twin Cities, 13 May 2017
  • Mirren makes her terse, decisive, and ferociously alive, always a step ahead of the Israeli military officers in the room — a matriarch with the toughness of a buzzard.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Feb. 2023

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