How to Use hornbill in a Sentence

hornbill

noun

• Watch the full clip of the mongoose and the hornbill below.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 6 Apr. 2018
• They are made from the beaks of a large bird, the helmeted hornbill.
  — Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2013
• Here, a behind-the-scenes look at a southern ground hornbill on set.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010
• The helmeted hornbill is also at risk—but not from the pet trade.
  — National Geographic, 25 May 2016
• The helmeted hornbill is also at risk—but not from the pet trade.
  — National Geographic, 25 May 2016
• Karl, an Abyssinian ground hornbill, had a new beak built for him with a 3-D printer, to replace one that was wearing away and wasn’t doing the job.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
• Hop on tandem kayaks from Asian Detours (from $58) and paddle around the mangrove, with hornbills and herons flying above.
  — Wufei Yu, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
• This brown-cheeked hornbill, for instance, sports an unbreakable beak.
  — William Myers, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
• The helmeted hornbill is a huge, cackling bird native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
  — National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2016
• The helmeted hornbill, a bird native to Southeast Asia, for example, is captured mainly for the pet trade, or for its beak to be used as medicine or to be carved like ivory.
  — Emily Harwitz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2023
• According to Malaysian legend, hornbill spoons and buttons would change color in the presence of poison.
  — Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2013
• Among the animals on display here: Rhinoceros hornbills, with horn-like structures on their beaks; and Malayan flying fox fruit bats, among the largest bats in the world, with a wingspan of up to 5 feet.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 20 Dec. 2017
• In Sagaing Division, in the foothills of the Himalayas, a man from the Naga ethnic group wearing a fur hat garnished with hornbill feathers and boar tusks raised his arm in a defiant salute.
  — Hannah Beech, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2021
• The Thomson's gazelles are sharing an outdoor living space with a couple of Southern ground hornbill birds and the zoo's half-dozen impalas, although the male impala is being kept apart from them.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2017
• Unfortunately, morning on the river starts before sunrise, when the boatmen fire up the outboards and the hornbills start squawking and the rustle of leaves hints at the primates feeding in the canopy.
  — Paul Brady, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2018
• The two seem to be hitting it off already, the zoo said, spending a lot of time together on Kiden’s first day in the enclosure, an area that also includes Speke’s gazelle and southern ground hornbills.
  — oregonlive, 13 May 2020
• Native people in Borneo have carved hornbill casques into ornaments for at least 2,000 years.
  — National Geographic, 16 Mar. 2016
• Many have particularly bright plumage, such as parrots, parakeets, and hornbills; others, such as the bulbul, sing.
  — Longreads, 22 Mar. 2018
• The opportunity to get bitten by a ground hornbill presented itself to me...
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2011
• Delhiites are now spotting rare birds like gray hornbills and red-throated flycatchers.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Apr. 2020
• That’s much further than virtually all other seed-carrying animals, save for the Asian elephant or the African hornbill.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 22 Mar. 2011
• This goes on hilariously multiple times, although the hornbill seems nonplussed by the mongoose’s efforts.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 6 Apr. 2018
• Male hornbills can inflate their wattles during mating season to attract females.
  — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
• The male helmeted hornbill finished his parenting duties alone.
  — Yao-Hua Law, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2020
• Jürgen Hooper also impressively multitasks as actor and puppeteer playing Zazu, the hornbill bird who is Mafa’s chief of staff.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
• John Oliver was tapped as hornbill Zazu, Mufasa’s loyal confidant.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017
• There, guests have the opportunity to experience native culture and observe wildlife such as proboscis monkeys and hornbills while spending nights aboard the Rahai’i Pangun Houseboat.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• Sulawesi is home to species found nowhere else, including vibrant hornbills, miniature water buffalo, tusked deer-pigs and some tarsiers, a small, nocturnal primate.
  — Ian Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Nov. 2019
• The habitats of species like the great hornbill and the Indian spotted eagle – already in global decline – have come under increasing threat in the region due to highway traffic, construction, logging, poaching, and hunting.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2022
• Mudappa and Raman, anticipating concerns about cost, have figured out how to practice a form of restoration virtually for free, with help from another endangered species: the great hornbill.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024