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Example sentences for "vulture"

Lexicographically close words:
vulpine; vult; vultis; vultu; vultum; vultures; vulturine; vultus; vulva; vunce
  1. The vulture immediately let go his hold, but seizing my turban, flew away with it.

  2. The two friends and I were very much surprised at the novelty; but I much more, when I recognized the turban to be that which the vulture had flown away with.

  3. As I was carrying home the meat I had bought, a famished vulture flew upon me, and would have taken it away, if I had not held it very fast; but, alas!

  4. A vulture perching upon the loftiest top of the sacred tree.

  5. He placed the mysterious vessels at Odin's feet and at once returned to relieve the vulture and to resume his watch.

  6. When I saw that wicked looking vulture and heard why he is circling there I could picture all too plainly what would have happened if we had been killed and----" It was seldom that Merry was so overcome.

  7. Then wishing to change the subject, she pointed toward a hill over which one lone vulture was swinging in wide circles.

  8. The vulture would have capitally typified many of the wars of the state, their sole purpose being so many carcases--whilst, for the courts of law, the magpie would have been the very bird of legal justice and legal wisdom.

  9. Tim received a hearty welcome; Candela clapped his hands as he saw the venison; and the doctor was highly pleased to have the king-vulture to examine.

  10. Chumbo told me how, in despair of getting any supper, he had rushed in and attacked the vulture with which I had found him struggling.

  11. He had dared offer an insult to Juno, and in punishment was chained like Prometheus, while a vulture feasted on his liver.

  12. There a voracious vulture was summoned to feast upon his liver, the tearing of which from his side by the bird's cruel beak and talons caused the sufferer intense anguish.

  13. He had become ashy pale, and his vulture gaze pierced Boleslav through and through.

  14. Solitude swooped over his head like a vulture in ever-narrowing circles, till he began to fancy he felt the chill flap of its wings across his face.

  15. He stood looking, with his vulture profile, and small eyes flashing beneath his sharply projecting brows, like a bird of prey waiting to pounce on its booty.

  16. He comes a vulture to his prey; A wolf to raven in your streets: Around on shining stream and bay Gather his bandit fleets.

  17. A Brahman who misappropriates money which he has received for a sacrifice will hereafter be either a vulture or a crow for the period of one hundred years.

  18. Above his head The vulture hovers, fearing to approach; While the earth trembles, and the rocks are shaken.

  19. The poem closely follows the well-known legend of Prometheus' punishment for stealing fire from heaven, and his ultimate rescue by Hercules from the vulture which preyed upon his vitals.

  20. Hercules at last releases him from his torture by killing the vulture and breaking the chains which bind him to his rock.

  21. When the fever of my young life is spent; when placid age shall tame the vulture that devours me, friendship may come, love and hope being dead.

  22. That'll finish the vulture before it has time to gorge full.

  23. You might, for instance, have your heart plucked out by a vulture while you're lying helpless.

  24. In their most perfect condition they curiously resemble the head and beak of a vulture in miniature, seated on a neck and capable of movement, as is likewise the lower jaw or mandible.

  25. Vengeance, raw-necked and ragged-pinioned, hovers a following vulture, such a vulture as the goddess wore for headdress.

  26. She dreams; she is afraid; and over her bends and whispers in her ear a shadowy form clad with the emblems of the goddess in the shrine, but now wearing upon her head the vulture cap.

  27. Henley was a predatory vulture on all counts, his talons constantly spread, constantly crimson-tipped.

  28. Ramsey was a vulture too, but in the depths of his mind he knew it.

  29. It has been the vulture preying on my heart ever since.

  30. Fellows with nice mothers and pretty sisters, cousins or sweethearts appeared to flaunt them before Parmelee's eyes; fellows hurrying off to somebody's spread thrust him unceremoniously out of the way with muttered apologies.

  31. The good horse belonged to the vulture and the eagle.

  32. The humped oaks stand black under iron skies; The dry wind whirls the dead leaves everywhere; Wild on the water falls a vulture glare Of moon, and wild the circling raven flies.

  33. Nor time nor all his minions Of sorrow or of pain, Shall dash with vulture pinions The cup she fills again Within the dream-dominions Of life where she doth reign.

  34. Forceps more or less like in form to the beak of the parrot or the vulture (rostrum psittacinum et vulturinum), for the removal or resection of teeth that have grown in abnormal positions.

  35. Picking the teeth with the quill of a vulture renders the breath sour.

  36. He was shot stone-dead, and for a time no vulture ventured near.

  37. It has been a much debated point with sportsmen and naturalists, whether the eye or the sense of smell guides the vulture to his feast of carrion.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vulture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bloodsucker; harpy; leech; magpie; profiteer; shark; steal; vampire; vulture