How to Use falconry in a Sentence

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• Students can learn the ins and outs of falconry and have a chance to handle the birds.
  — Ben Brazil, Daily Pilot, 8 Aug. 2019
• Not even the World Cup can soar past Qatar’s love for falconry.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• While there, the pop star stopped by the resort’s 90-minute falconry class.
  — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 1 Mar. 2018
• Learn about regional birds of prey and the art of falconry.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2023
• But if that sport hasn’t changed over the centuries, just about everything else about falconry has.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2022
• The Ashford is renowned for its falconry school (the first in Ireland), and children delight in watching the hawks take off and land on gloved hands in search of bits of meat.
  — Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
• Spend your days on the tennis courts or at the falconry school or golf academy, which has ten driving bays.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• Both books are about the art of falconry, in which birds of prey, by means of deprivation and reward, are taught to hunt to please their owners.
  — Cynthia Zarin, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
• For more than 3,000 years, humans have trained these lords of the sky to hunt wild game for them, developing into the art of falconry.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• The head butler will set you up with archery, falconry, riding, hikes on the moors, golf, or salmon fishing (for which Lismore is legendary).
  — Wendy Perrin, Town & Country, 17 Oct. 2019
• Meanwhile, though, falconry was catching on in the United States.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
• This year, there’s also a falconry demonstration with birds of prey.
  — Michael James Rocha, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• From a state-of-the-art golf course to its La Mer spa to the spectacular falconry, Adare Manor is not just a hotel but a 5-star experience.
  — Zachary Schwartz, Vogue, 15 Jan. 2018
• Guests can bowl or play croquet, fish or go skeet shooting, ride horses or learn falconry.
  — Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2019
• The falconry program has been a tradition at the Air Force Academy since 1955.
  — Fox News, 3 Oct. 2019
• There’s hiking, of course, and mountain biking, but there are also other very cool, unique things to do, like falconry!
  — BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2021
• Although less fashionable now than in the days of yore, the art of falconry is still passed down from one generation to the next in Qatar and other oil-rich sheikhdoms of the Persian Gulf.
  — Lujain Jo, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Mar. 2022
• There’s tons to do, but don’t miss falconry lessons, golf, fly fishing, ranch cattle drives, and a breathtaking canyon zip-line tour above Seven Falls.
  — Nina Kokotas Hahn, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2021
• His interests turned to falconry and keeping birds of prey: a red-tailed hawk, a Cooper’s hawk, an American kestrel.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
• On that day, visitors can immerse themselves in the world of the House of Stark with jousting shows, archery demonstrations and falconry displays.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Smithsonian, 18 Aug. 2017
• The road trip breaks for a falconry demonstration in which a trainer showcases the flying skills of this majestic bird of prey, one of the most revered symbols of the Middle East.
  — Star-Telegram, star-telegram.com, 5 July 2017
• From all manner of water sports to falconry demonstrations and fireside ukelele lessons, this private beach club has it all.
  — Amanda Fletcher, Orange County Register, 15 Aug. 2019
• Kitty started her falconry career in the early 1980s, putting on shows with a few birds at renaissance fairs.
  — Vincent Crampton, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
• One special activity not to be missed: the ancient sport of falconry.
  — Sarah Maiellano, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2018
• The figurine may be one of the oldest Scandinavian depictions of falconry, a hunting practice where birds of prey are trained to kill wild game.
  — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2022
• So in 2017, Downtown Portland Clean & Safe tried something new: falconry.
  — oregonlive, 11 Oct. 2019
• The Broadmoor, which added the cog railway to its portfolio in 1925, peddles a lengthy menu of adventures, from falconry and fly fishing to rock climbing and zip lining.
  — Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
• This sport is a combination of paragliding and falconry.
  — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 15 Nov. 2019
• The $100 ticket includes a lesson in falconry, individual time holding and flying falcons and — of course — a chance to wear one of those bitchin’ cool falconry gloves.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Long considered one of the oldest sports still practiced today, falconry has its participants, or falconers, train birds of prey (falcons, sometimes hawks, eagles or buzzards) to hunt wild game.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024