How to Use grebe in a Sentence

grebe

noun
Definition of grebenext
  • About then a small group of eared grebes came floating by in the slow current of Rush Creek.
    — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
  • On an easy half-mile walk, visitors can watch and discuss ducks, geese, grebes and songbirds.
    — Anita Gosch, Orange County Register, 20 May 2017
  • South Shore: Reports included an eared grebe and a king eider in Hull.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Perhaps 1 million years ago or more, a male grebe needed bright colors and tricky moves.
    — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Spotted salamanders breed here and night herons roost, alongside coots and grebes.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 13 May 2020
  • A pair of grebes who didn’t love each other might be less willing to cooperate.
    — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 16 June 2011
  • Some of these visitors will include green-winged teal, the colorful wood duck, Western and Clark’s grebes, some species of sandpiper and loons.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • In the Andes Mountains in South America, water birds called hooded grebes have bright red eyes.
    — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
  • On Plum Island, there were 16 Northern shovelers, eight red-grebes, two rough-legged hawks, and a yellow-breasted chat.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Spring and summer are peak nesting season for Western and Clark’s grebes, and Lake Hodges has become a major nursery for the large water birds.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2019
  • That’s concerning because while a lot of birds depend on the lake’s brine shrimp to survive — including 5 million eared grebe — a lot more flocks rely on the flies.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • In Britain, the great crested grebe was driven to near extinction, hunted for its head feathers, which stand out like a halo when breeding.
    — Mary Jo Dilonardo, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
  • Back at the harbor, another small waterbird — an eared grebe — was released alongside the ruddy duck Wednesday.
    — Robin Estrin, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Not much is known about the hooded grebe, Podiceps gallardoi, as these aquatic birds were discovered only 43 years ago in the frigid waters of Patagonia.
    — Amy Klinkhammer, Discover Magazine, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The 564-acre marsh adjacent to Turnagain Arm is a magnet for birders, who may encounter trumpeter swans, tundra swans, red-necked grebes, northern pintails, arctic terns and other species amid the marsh's sedges.
    — Mike Campbell, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Not only can birders spot ducks, geese, grebes and coots; a number of warblers, sparrows, woodpeckers, birds of prey including bald eagles, golden eagles and ospreys, and much more also move through the area.
    — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2017
  • But two lucky birds, a ruddy duck and an eared grebe, were released Wednesday after going through rehabilitation at the edge of Huntington Harbour.
    — Alejandra Reyes-Velarde Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Disgust at their grisly trade, which was eradicating millions of birds a year to meet Americans’ demand for feathery swank, surged in her like a ball of regurgitated feathers and crustaceans from a grebe’s crop.
    — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Birders will appreciate the flocks of waterfowl, migrating shorebirds, mallards, grebes, swallows and more.
    — Katie Pesznecker, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2020
  • The separation of penguins, pelicans and ibis from flamingos and grebes (and pigeons) implies that the waterbird trait evolved independently multiple times.
    — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2015
  • From coolly majestic lionesses to frantically racing grebes, from a Serengeti sunset to an otherworldly penguin procession, this exhibition is sure to leave viewers awestruck at the wide world around them.
    — Ryan P. Smith, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2017

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