单词 | sea swallow |
释义 | sea swallow (once / 140707 pages) n WORD FAMILY sea swallow: sea swallows USAGE EXAMPLESWhy did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel? Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea(1952) White and other petrels flew round us, with some gulls, and birds resembling sea swallows, with a forked tail. Maximilian, Alexander Philipp, Travels in the Interior of North Am...(2012) The Terns, or Sea Swallows, are possessed of great power and endurance of flight, their long forked tails and pointed wings indicating strength and swiftness. Douglas, Alan, Endurance Test—or, How Clear Grit W...(2011) n common tern of Eurasia and America having white black and grey plumage Syn|Hyper Sterna hirundo tern small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail |
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