How to Use coot in a Sentence

coot

noun

• Don't mind him—he's just a crazy old coot.
• Her old coot of a husband doddered over to see what the trouble was.
  — George Saunders, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2016
• The Natufians picked small wing bones from the Eurasian teal and the Eurasian coot to best mimic the sound of birds of prey native to the area.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• At the edge of the property is a pond where swans, mallards and coots paddle around.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• Great egrets and snowy egrets, along with blue herons, and the inevitable coot, seem to be year-round residents.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• Robert Forster is outstanding as the grizzled old coot.
  — Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2018
• On someone else this fate might be a crusher, but Sportcoat is the type of stubborn coot on whom doom roosts lightly, if at all.
  — Junot Díaz, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2020
• Spotted salamanders breed here and night herons roost, alongside coots and grebes.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 13 May 2020
• The movie gives us just enough horny youngsters, references to pot, and old coots with grudges to fill screen time until the special-effects guys go to work.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2018
• Even playing in front of tiny audiences, this ol’ coot flouncing about onstage, is a blast.
  — Tristram Lozaw, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• Five of them — including an American coot and a western gull — have died.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
• Dern plays crusty old coots as well as anyone in the business, but the background on his lonely golden years is unexplored.
  — Colin Covert, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2018
• Although coot chicks and grebe chicks are the same size, the young grebes are probably protected by riding on their parents' backs.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2017
• On a recent cool morning here, mallards flew overhead, pelicans swam on the lake, coots picked bugs out of the mud, and a lone doe sauntered through tall grass.
  — Adam Popescu, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• Under the proposal, goose, duck and coot hunting will be allowed only on boat.
  — Will Houston, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
• The coot is the late Brian Dennehy, bringing low-key charm to his friendship with Lucas Jaye, who plays a kid helping his mom clear out her late sister's garbage house.
  — Star Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020
• Most of my fellow members of the media laughed at Harry and portrayed him as a stubborn ol’ coot who probably belonged in the nuthouse.
  — oregonlive, 18 May 2020
• In fact, American coot families are never far from their nests.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2017
• At the Laguna Grande restoration area, American coots bob in open water fringed with cattails.
  — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 19 Apr. 2020
• Officials found three oiled birds Sunday — a brown pelican, an American coot and a duck.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
• Birds like woodpeckers, heron, egrets, ibis, coots, ducks and osprey can be found in the park along with alligators, otters and manatees.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2019
• But Wayne hasn’t revealed his intentions to the property’s owner, a withered old coot who greets all visitors with a wave of his shotgun.
  — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2022
• Waterfowl, including great egrets and American coots, are finding the changes to their liking.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Oct. 2017
• Bruce Arians is a wily old coot who can find a lot of ways to beat a defense, but his offensive line just shouldn’t be able to match up with the Eagles’ defensive front, even without Fletcher Cox.
  — Philly.com Staff, Philly.com, 5 Oct. 2017
• That doesn’t mean this leisurely portrait of its title character, a cantankerous old coot (Harry Dean Stanton, in one of his last roles), is any more eventful at the end than at the beginning.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
• Other waterfowl, such as the American coot and the northern shoveler, are even more numerous.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Jan. 2022
• Not only can birders spot ducks, geese, grebes and coots; a number of warblers, sparrows, woodpeckers, birds of prey including bald eagles, golden eagles and ospreys, and much more also move through the area.
  — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 21 Aug. 2017
• The dive bar’s obituary probably has been written a thousand times, sometimes with an eloquence that would baffle the average coot who shuffles into these black holes, looking for a shot and a beer before the clock strikes noon.
  — Atlanta Travel, ajc, 23 May 2017
• The dive bar's obituary probably has been written a thousand times, sometimes with an eloquence that would baffle the average coot who shuffles into these black holes, looking for a shot and a beer before the clock strikes noon.
  — Tim Carman and Fritz Hahn, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2017
• Joe Biden is a vain, shallow, dishonest, foolish, self-serving, cynical, exploitative, dim old coot.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 1 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024