How to Use ibis in a Sentence

ibis

noun
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  • The light and background colors were bright and the ibis was close.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 18 Jan. 2020
  • In North Dighton, a white ibis was seen in flight over a private farm area.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021
  • No, the large ibis that lived in Jamaica millions of years ago couldn't fly.
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2011
  • For instance, the god of writing, Thoth, was sometimes shown with the body of a man and head of an ibis.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 10 Nov. 2017
  • There was a little blue heron, a glossy ibis, and two soras.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
  • The ibis pulls aside a curtain to reveal a man hidden in the shadows behind the scenes.
    — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2020
  • These new Madagascar crested ibis chicks are on top of the world - or at least near the top of the Forest Aviary.
    — Dallas News, 14 June 2022
  • In recent years, the ibis, which has a long pink beak and pink feet, has started nesting in Cape May, N.J.
    — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Franklin County: a glossy ibis at the Turners Falls power canal.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2022
  • Great egrets and great blue herons, white-faced ibis, raptors, hawks and ducks are everywhere.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Though the streams and the ibis imply the uses of creative energy, the experience of the Star is one of peace.
    — refinery29.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • A few miles north of Ripon, south of a scenic wetland area where a rare ibis bird was once spotted, the trail passes by Vines & Rushes.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2019
  • Birds of a feather Tour the aviary kitchen, then feed different types of birds, including terns, ibis and ducks.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2019
  • But on the other side is a blue bird, an ibis inspired by the head of Thoth, the ancient Egyptian god of magic, wisdom and truth.
    — Christine Fernando, The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2020
  • And being in the back of a boat drifting down the Caroni Swamp just when a flock of scarlet ibis fly past, their plumage vibrant against the mangrove trees.
    — Patrice Grell Yursik, Travel + Leisure, 27 May 2021
  • Twenty feet in front of us, a white ibis, hunting in the shallows with its long curved bill, squawked and took flight, fluttering out of sight.
    — New York Times, 21 Feb. 2022
  • Flocks of white-faced ibises flew overhead, their long beaks and legs stretched elegantly against the sky.
    — Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
  • Rhoades told me a relatively rare bird, an ibis, was spotted there once and drew dozens of birders to the trail to look for it again.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2017
  • In part, the low resighting numbers can be explained by the fact that many birds, like the ibis, have a high mortality rate.
    — New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Adults of the largest bird in the ibis family can grow to almost 3.5 feet in length, weigh more than nine pounds and boast nine-inch beaks that bring to mind a Venetian plague doctor mask.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • There are more than 360 species of birds, including the great blue heron and the diminutive green variety, purple gallinules and roseate spoonbills, the white ibis and the black skimmer.
    — Allen G. Breed, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The scarlet ibis, like the flamingo, gains its vibrant color from carotene derived from a diet of crustaceans.
    — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
  • Tagged, chipped and clipped, Eola swans are loyal to the lake, but so is a long list of other wild birds, including ibis, anhinga and egret.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 14 July 2021
  • Flying ibis, as graceful as ballerinas, elude a snarling dog.
    — Elisa Turner, Sun Sentinel, 13 July 2022
  • The famed swans as well as pelicans, herons, pigeons, geese and ibis were present but subdued, or possibly gloomy over a night of rising squalls to come.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Laman was in Venezuela's Orinoco Basin searching for scarlet ibises, bright orange-red birds that roost among the tangle of mangrove roots and sticky mudflats at dusk.
    — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
  • There were two glossy ibis, a black skimmer, and a probable nesting family of four merlins.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 July 2021
  • But when the timing is just right, as in her shot of a white ibis (4) soaring over the Florida Everglades, the world opens up for photographer and viewer alike.
    — April Austin, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2022
  • One collection of ibises played a role in the early debate about evolution.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2018
  • Even so, the lion was never associated strongly with a single deity such as the ibis to Thoth or the jackal to Anubis.
    — Antoaneta Roussi, National Geographic, 23 Nov. 2019

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