gannet|gannets in English

noun

[gan·net || 'gænɪt]

large seabird; (Slang) voracious and greedy perso

Use "gannet|gannets" in a sentence

1. Cape gannets in their greeting routine

2. Gannets are denizens of the open ocean.

3. But the gannets of Bempton Cliffs are within easy reach of all.

4. Far out to sea lies the gannet colony of Grassholm.

5. It takes about 000 trees to construct a ship like the Gannet.

6. Part two: The visibility at Gannet Head is 5 miles.

7. 19 A zoologist attempts to capture a northern gannet affected by the oil spill.

8. The nyctosaurid Alcione may display adaptations for wing-propelled diving like modern gannets and tropicbirds.

9. A zoologist attempts to capture a northern gannet affected by the oil spill.

10. In spring those cliffs are alive with auks and gulls, and my favourite bird, the gannet.

11. The captain had a Russian girlfriend, and, every time we stopped, she plunged off the bridge like a gannet.

12. Here they would spend ten or more days catching the young gannets which breed on the rock in thousands.

13. Gannet - To subsist by the wings of his virtue and merit, having little land to rest upon.

14. Rescue workers carefully clean an oil-soaked northern gannet bird at a facility in Fort Jackson, Louisiana.

15. He was one of those people who always saw the funny side of everything, Jack Gannet thought morosely.

16. ‘Usually you can expect to see great numbers of pelagic birds - gannets, shearwaters, jaegers, storm-petrels, Alcids - that live mainly at sea.’

17. It fulfilled this function in the USN and Royal Navy, being replaced by the Grumman E-1 Tracer and Fairey Gannet, respectively, in those services.

18. Conservation groups are worried the leak will harm marine life, including birds and fish, in the area around the Gannet Alpha platform, about 112 miles east of Aberdeen.

19. Divers and remotely operated vehicles are being used to remove panels and gratings at the Gannet platform to assess the ability to close the leaking valve.

20. While the darters' lack of many display behaviors is shared with gannets (and that of a few with cormorants), these are all symplesiomorphies that are absent in frigatebirds, tropicbirds and pelicans also.

21. A rescue worker feeds a northern gannet bird from the Gulf of Mexico region a dose of Pepto-Bismol today to combat complications from oil ingested when the bird tried to preen its feathers.

22. ‘The gannet is the largest member of the unfortunately-named Booby family and the most common on the Atlantic coast.’ ‘Declines in seabird populations (kittiwakes, boobies, cormorants, pelicans) have also been blamed on depletion of the fish stocks that they feed on.’

23. ‘The gannet is the largest member of the unfortunately-named Booby family and the most common on the Atlantic coast.’ ‘Declines in seabird populations (kittiwakes, boobies, cormorants, pelicans) have also been blamed on depletion of the fish stocks that they feed on.’