The sanctuary needed more humdrum fowl, more farmyard ducks and geese.
Ballard, J. G. RUSHING TO PARADISE (2002)
In Normandy he had traded tins of sardines for live geese, packets of Park Drive for kegs of Calvados.
Hilton, John Buxton DISPLACED PERSON (2002)
And then they could see the reeds and there was a honking of geese overhead lifting to meet the dawn.
Jack Higgins THE KEYS OF HELL (2002)
A broken V formation of Canada geese passed high overhead, their wild calls plunging down the cold air.
Chuck Logan ABSOLUTE ZERO (2002)
Word lists with
geese
collective nouns
All related terms of 'geese'
goose
A goose is a large bird that has a long neck and webbed feet . Geese are often farmed for their meat .
snow geese
a North American goose , Anser hyperboreus (or Chen hyperborea or A. caerulescens ), having a white plumage with black wing tips
Wild Geese
→ the Wild Geese
the Wild Geese
the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
Canada goose
a large common greyish-brown North American goose , Branta canadensis, with a black neck and head and a white throat patch
Cape Barren goose
a greyish Australian goose , Cereopsis novaehollandiae , having a black bill with a greenish cere
all his or her geese are swans
he or she constantly exaggerates the importance of a person or thing