How to Use avian in a Sentence

avian

adjective

• But where did this avian metaphor come from in the first place?
  — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• The closest case of avian flu to date was 110 miles away.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2022
• The cost of a dozen — though volatile thanks to avian flu — has doubled to more than $3.
  — Rob Wile, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• Egg prices have been on the rise amid a deadly bout of avian flu.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 13 Feb. 2025
• An outbreak of avian flu caused a shortage of eggs, the price of which soared.
  — Jonathan Swan, New York Times, 8 June 2024
• There are other avian options to bronze in the oven and present with panache.
  — Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
• Egg prices, which have been volatile after a bout of avian flu, fell 7.3%.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• For starters, this is the first time that the posture seen in the embryo has been seen in a non-avian dinosaur.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 22 Dec. 2021
• Bioterrorism, the avian flu, the Iraq war, and pedophile priests?
  — Ew Staff, Peoplemag, 23 Oct. 2022
• An avian flu outbreak, meanwhile, has sent egg prices up 21% over the past year.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 10 May 2023
• In 2008, Science published a new avian tree based on DNA.
  — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
• On the run from his own agency in avian form, Sterling’s going to have to learn to use his wings, and fast.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 25 Dec. 2019
• Millions of chickens and geese have been culled in response to avian flu.
  — Vincent Gabrielle, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2019
• Two strains of avian flu in the past decade also may have emerged from a poultry market and a goose farm.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• So far, tests confirmed 10 of those birds were positive for the avian flu.
  — Cheri Carlson, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2023
• When avian flu is discovered on an egg farm, all the chickens on the farm are killed to limit the spread.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 18 Mar. 2025
• Their eggs were huge, larger than that of even the biggest non-avian dinosaurs.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2020
• Instead, the pouches were simply stuck to the backs of the avian assistants with some duct tape.
  — Robin Andrews, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
• Four goslings hatched, just the first wave in an avian population boom.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 June 2018
• That's just a step away from a major outbreak of avian flu, which right now has no vaccine.
  — Dan Gorenstein, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
• For the first time, a patient in the United States has presented with a severe case of avian flu.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
• Miller said the ponds were refilled last year once the immediate threat of avian flu had passed.
  — Hanh Truong, Sacramento Bee, 25 May 2024
• Angry Birds fans can take the avian battle to a whole new level at the end of the month, thanks to Electric Gamebox.
  — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 7 June 2022
• The first six entries on his LinkedIn page are avian-related.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 24 May 2018
• Try a masked cape and corset look for an avian look with Victorian flair.
  — Katarina Avendano, Good Housekeeping, 12 May 2022
• After a bird tests positive for avian flu, they are culled to control the spread of the disease.
  — Michelle Cheng, Quartz, 24 Jan. 2023
• But his claim that windmills pose a great threat to our avian friends is dubious at best.
  — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
• What’s more, the virus has spread far beyond its typical avian hosts.
  — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 9 Feb. 2023
• The price of eggs, which spiked last summer due to an avian flu outbreak, has fallen nearly 8% over the past year.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 17 July 2023
• Firms including Cal-Maine Foods have touted a crushing avian flu outbreak, which has forced the culling of millions of egg-laying hens, as the major catalyst for the rise in egg prices.
  — Brian Evans, CNBC, 13 Mar. 2025