A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.
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Examples for "bird "
Examples for "bird "
1 It happened quite quickly, and soon the bird was no longer faded.
2 However, Mr Wills said bird restoration might one day be too successful.
3 The bird welfare charity is unveiling its environmental programme for government today.
4 A number of companies and national governments are developing bird flu vaccines.
5 On Tuesday, officials said bird flu had spread to a new area.
1 Something in the soft hiss of the words made the Ranger turn.
2 The manager was heard to hiss from the shelter of the wings:
3 A great hiss momentarily drowned out the thunder of the horses' hooves.
4 The sound track picked up the crash and hiss of the breakers.
5 Snarg let him know it was a bad idea with a hiss .
1 I heard Pickover snort ; the name must have meant something to him.
2 And quite a lover, too, I'm told.' He gave a lascivious snort .
3 With a snort of impatience, the General snatched the paper from him.
4 He would snort coke through a garden hose given half a chance.
5 Bryant's derisive snort was enough to suggest that he did not agree.
1 However, if folk want to boo players, then they're more than entitled.
2 Intending to suggest that every boo - boo could be a source of joy.
3 And he asked the crowd not to boo Republicans and cheer Democrats.
4 I may teach my two to boo and call it a day.
5 Supporters do not groan about misplaced passes or boo their own players.
1 Epidemiological data pointed to raspberry cakes as the source of the outbreak.
2 Behind the squat pagoda a sky of raspberry pink closed the background.
3 Levet offered a raspberry as he flapped his wings to rise higher.
4 The discriminating bees forsake most other flowers while the raspberry blossoms last.
5 In menorrhagia-toomuch flow-cinnamonand raspberry leaves can be combined with it.
1 The sun had set; an owl began to hoot in the wood.
2 But the film is, of course, a hoot from beginning to end.
3 A moment later they heard the single, unexpected hoot of an owl.
4 Nhlanhla Nene's upcoming mid-term budget speech is going to be a hoot .
5 Olympos gave a great hoot of laughter, and so did many others.
1 As soon as I'd stopped razzing him and relaxed, it had happened.
2 A little innocent razzing mixed in, he judged, with some genuine resentment.
3 Handing her a photograph, Tom countered, Think about the razzing I took about you.
4 In a minute, when they found out he wasn't any good, they'd start razzing him.
5 McCarthy was well aware of the razzing Michael had taken his first years on the force.
1 She was only sore that he'd obviously used it to razz her.
2 Tracy was surprised the older woman hadn't taken this chance to razz her.
3 Well, the Red Swede got the grand razz handed to him, all right.
4 But in sessions of the caucus he and Trotter continued to razz Obama.
5 For several days after the slasher's arrest the other detectives gave me the razz .
1 We would have been right there with you, giving a Bronx cheer .
2 What we call the Bronx cheer is known in Europe as the Bavarian salute.
3 The three beer girls raised a raucous Bronx cheer .
4 Both choices spooked investors, and the result was a market that gave both possible combinations the Bronx cheer .
5 Wall Street investors, meanwhile, gave Google a rousing Bronx cheer Thursday, after the company slightly missed earnings expectations.
7 This was greeted with the Kansan version of the Bronx Cheer .
8 One of the best was "A bronx cheer for the great engineer," which had to be explained to Senator Sheppard of Texas.
9 The next over he committed a clumsy misfield that gifted Finch his half-century via a boundary and triggered Bronx cheers for the fumbly fielder.
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