How to Use stork in a Sentence

stork

noun
  • How does such a smart pooch feel about what the sheepish stork brought?
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The team kept an eye on the stork as staff brought the zebra and rhino into the barns.
    Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • In front of the next house stood a figure of a stork, with a pink ribbon around its neck.
    Thomas Korsgaard, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a lion, a tiger, a camel, a stork — even a sea monster.
    WSJ, 14 June 2023
  • Hearts bloom over their heads, and by the end of the game, a stork delivers their baby.
    Michelle Delgado, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 May 2020
  • The storks and pelicans have wingspans 4 to 5feet wide, while the other birds are about the size of ducks.
    David Hulen, adn.com, 1 Jan. 1950
  • Most kept a reasonable distance, but the storks pressed up to the front line in search of easy prey.
    Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And like many other over-sized birds, the stork likely wasn't the flying type.
    Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 9 Dec. 2010
  • The zoo said the training helped the staff members act quickly to relocate the stork.
    Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • In story one, the stork needs a break, and some of the other are called on to deliver a baby girl.
    Laura Demarco, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Daria [Werbowy] had to hold the carcass of a marabou stork twice her size that had been dead for over a week in her hands next to her naked body.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Nov. 2011
  • Wood storks are long-legged, wading birds that can stand more than 4-feet tall when fully-grown.
    Drew Kann, ajc, 18 Sep. 2023
  • An adult milky stork stands about 3 feet tall and can live up to 30 years or more in captivity.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • Her women tend to be the sort of people for whom, as the old joke has it, there was no Santa at 6, no stork at 9 and no God at 12.
    New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Ranging from the tiny, hovering hummingbird to the stout, waddling duck and the long-legged stork.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2022
  • Remote nest cameras and meal remains also show that the stork is on the eagle’s menu.
    National Geographic, 17 May 2016
  • Hard to imagine how the stork got off the ground carrying that much athleticism.
    Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Medic 1 now sports four stork stickers just behind the driver’s door, three blue and one pink for the four babies born inside the squad.
    cleveland, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Those giant, stork-like birds looked like airborne flakes of ground pepper.
    Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2020
  • The ads featured a cartoon stork that wielded pickles like cigars and wore a bow tie, just like Mr. Vlasic.
    James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 18 May 2022
  • The plan seems simple: Place a mobile phone tracker on a white stork to study the bird's migration pattern.
    Joshua Hafner, ajc, 10 July 2018
  • The marabou stork’s nakedness is natural, but there are other reasons for naked birds to be naked.
    Susan Matthews, Slate Magazine, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The black stork is a bird that constantly migrates between Europe and Africa.
    Stefania D'ignoti, Quartz Africa, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Wanda’s at home, where the glitches are getting more extreme and the stork from episode three even makes a cameo appearance.
    Abraham Riesman, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The cargo ship is named Kounotori, Japanese for white stork.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Wood storks were once confined to remote reaches of the Everglades.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The Flores stork was just the latest creature to be added to the menagerie of monstrous prehistoric creatures that enthrall us.
    Brian Switek, WIRED, 4 Jan. 2011
  • Today every news cycle is more or less Trump did a Trump thing, followed by a stork dance of outrage.
    James Lileks, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • The Germans called it a pfeilstorch, or arrow-stork, and remarkably, 24 more pfeilstorchs have been found in Europe in the years since.
    Jim Robbins, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Now that the stork is out of the bag, Bailey's been more forthcoming with her pregnancy, sharing photos and videos of the once-private period in her life.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2024

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