How to Use cormorant in a Sentence

cormorant

noun

• Diamond Jim Brady was perhaps the most celebrated cormorant of the Gilded Age.
• All but ____________ of the 40 or so species of cormorants in the world are able to fly.
  — Rosa Inocencio Smith, The Atlantic, 1 June 2017
• One bird — a Brandt’s cormorant — that had been oiled died over the weekend.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2024
• Hundreds of black cormorant birds stood as if sentries on the rocks east of the cove.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
• The eagles eat the cormorants who also nest on the island, and have never bothered the goats.
  — Megan Jones, Lake County News-Sun, 28 June 2017
• When fish are stuck in the canal, predators like grebes and cormorants can more easily snatch them.
  — Aaron Boorstein, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2024
• Noisy or silent, these creatures, like the herons, cormorants, and bald eagles, had chosen this place for a reason.
  — Nina Caplan, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2023
• Within earshot of the rumbling traffic of the Key Bridge, cormorants, egrets, herons and gulls have taken over Fort Carroll, abandoned since the 1920s.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2017
• Look out on the cliffs below the trail for breeding pelagic and Brandt’s cormorants, as well as the lonely northern gannet.
  — Jill K. Robinson, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
• Smolts are picked off by birds like double crested cormorants and caspian terns.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• As the surf crashed against a barrier of sand, pelicans, cormorants and ospreys soared over the dark water.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and sea reptiles made way for sea-diving birds like cormorants and penguins.
  — National Geographic, 13 Dec. 2017
• There weren’t any cormorants perched on the rocks—a sign that the fish hadn’t arrived in numbers yet—but the sight of all that tan water sliding by was reassuring.
  — Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 16 Apr. 2020
• Harbor seal pups pop up and down in the calm waves lapping around you, and double-crested cormorants flap their wings in your direction.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 11 June 2017
• As the boat passed a small island, an African fish eagle was seen nested near a cacophonous gathering of cormorants.
  — Benedict Moran, National Geographic, 7 May 2019
• Ground zero for bird watchers is the area to the right of the marina, where a feisty rookery of nesting double-crested cormorants and herons chatters up a storm in the trees.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 11 June 2017
• It was moored at the end of a long dock in a busy marina with views of rocks bristling with cormorants, seagulls screeching overhead, and a bevy of ducks that arrived each morning for their share of the toast.
  — Tara Conklin, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2019
• Countless species including these cormorants depend on healthy kelp forests to thrive.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The island’s primary residents are birds: puffin, mures, and cormorants are abundant in the sea cliffs.
  — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Nov. 2023
• Otters and sea lions bask on the jetty; pumpkin orange sea stars are visible in the clear water, and cormorants and gulls circle above the rock.
  — Dallas News, 4 May 2020
• Some sea birds, including pelicans, loons and cormorants also sick from the toxin, are also being cared for at the park.
  — Debbi Baker, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• The federal agent quickly identified the man holding white and brown pelicans, a cormorant and two gulls.
  — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 8 Aug. 2017
• What actually happened: Killing the birds drove the colony to a bridge several miles upriver, where the cormorants ate even more salmon than before.
  — Tony Schick, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2023
• The fetid mess left behind, along with the waste from cormorants and other seabirds, sometimes proved overwhelming in a community where tourists pay to eat outside.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 14 July 2016
• The fetid mess left behind, along with the waste from cormorants and other seabirds, sometimes proved overwhelming in a community where tourists pay to eat outside.
  — National Geographic, 14 July 2016
• The deep-diving cormorant is one of hundreds that the Wildlife Conservation Society tracks to ensure that the birds have places to live where they can be protected---and well fed.
  — Sophie Bushwick, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2012
• Westport: There was a black skimmer and a great cormorant reported at Gooseberry Neck.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
• Last summer at a popular Monterey dive site, the cormorants seemed to be more active and curious than usual ...
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2024
• Now more broken bodies are turning up: a massacre of 600 arctic-tern chicks in the United Kingdom; a rash of pelicans, cormorants, gulls, and terns washed up along West African coasts.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2023
• Gary Vonderohe, a fish biologist in the department's Charleston office, said the man found them in his yard - beneath a tree used as a roost by cormorants.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 2 June 2017

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024