OWL in a Sentence
Learn OWL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
39 example sentences for OWL, such as:
1. An owl is the king of the night.
2. He glowered at her like a downy young owl.
3. She became, of a sudden, solemn as an owl.
4. This type of owl prefers a desert habitat.
5. We might get some puppies, or owl eggs, or snakeskins.
2. He glowered at her like a downy young owl.
3. She became, of a sudden, solemn as an owl.
4. This type of owl prefers a desert habitat.
5. We might get some puppies, or owl eggs, or snakeskins.
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Meanings and Examples of OWL
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owl
n. nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 He glowered at her like a downy young owl.
2 We might get some puppies, or owl eggs, or snakeskins.
3 In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted.
4 There was no sound abroad except the hooting of an old owl in the top of a water-oak, and the everlasting voice of the sea, that was not uplifted at that soft hour.
5 The old owl no longer hooted, and the water-oaks had ceased to moan as they bent their heads.
6 So she watched them every hour of the day, and had learned to see like an owl at night to watch them then.
7 Instead of the voices of her children, she hears by day the moans of the dove, and by night the screams of the hideous owl.
8 He and his friends had hardly crouched down before the melancholy hooting of a mountain owl was heard within a few yards of them, which was immediately answered by another hoot at a small distance.
9 She became, of a sudden, solemn as an owl.
10 A churchyard haunter at whom the owl hoots and the ivy mocks tap-tap-tapping on the pane.
11 The owl hoots and the ivy mocks tap-tap-tapping on the pane.
12 He lit up the difficult places with a flash-light torch, and they went on again, while an owl softly hooted over the oaks, and Flossie padded silently around.
13 The bright little figures ceased to move about below, a noiseless owl flitted by, and I shivered with the chill of the night.
14 The hooting of a distant owl was all the sound that troubled the dead stillness.
15 Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.
Example Sentence:
1 This type of owl prefers a desert habitat.
2 When the owl sings, the nightingale will hold her peace.
3 An owl is the king of the night.
4 One has lived too near a wood to be frightened by owls.
5 He who lives near the woods is not frightened by owls.
6 The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity.
7 Every night we hear the great owls hoot and laugh in uncanny fashion.