How to Use toucan in a Sentence

toucan

noun

• Stop for tea at the outdoor café and listen to the calls of the toucans.
  — Deborah Dunn, Town & Country, 29 Apr. 2016
• The brewery often gets asked about the story of the toucan.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2018
• Monkeys live in the trees, and toucans and falcons nest in the garden.
  — Peter Terzian, ELLE Decor, 30 Sep. 2010
• See the toucan, harp, seal and the holiday keg tree made from over 250 kegs.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 15 Dec. 2022
• The series follows the exploits of a toucan and her songbird friend.
  — Zoe Christen Jones, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2021
• But the toucan, which first appeared in 1935, prevailed.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2018
• The app preview shows pictures of a vegetable and a toucan to color.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• Choose the flamingo, toucan, swan, or unicorn, then follow the easy recipe.
  — Carly Breit, Country Living, 14 June 2017
• The videos showed Officer Durr presenting to children with the help of a toucan, a chimpanzee and a boy in a striped T-shirt.
  — Daniel Victor, New York Times, 28 May 2017
• He was reunited with the first missing toucan late last year.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
• Snakes, frogs, and toucans also call the wildlife sanctuary home.
  — Lindsay Cohn, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2023
• Delightful colors and patterns of palm trees, flowers, and toucans are just the right amount of tacky.
  — John Clary Davies, Outside Online, 16 Feb. 2020
• On a recent morning, the crowns of the wax palms could be seen breaching the cloud line as a host of bird species — toucans, parrots, jays — made for the trees’ red-orange fruits.
  — Jennie Erin Smith, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
• Tiki had been living in a home where a fellow toucan kept beating her up.
  — Erika Pesantes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2018
• On your first evening, learn about night photography and Belize’s diverse wildlife, ranging from the jaguar to the toucan.
  — National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
• Then, on a wing and a prayer, the volunteers paired up (toucan do more than one) and fanned out into the neighborhood, not to change minds but to reinforce habits.
  — Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
• Her bedroom is stacked with cages of toucans and other tropical birds.
  — Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter, charlotteobserver, 21 May 2018
• The Prince of Wales wore a classic tan suit, while Camilla opted for a blue dress patterned with a toucan in a rainforest canopy with lemurs, frogs, and monkeys.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 27 July 2022
• Animal motifs are embedded in each uniform, a bald eagle for the U.S. team, a toucan for Brazil and a rooster for France.
  — Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2021
• The zoo recently added toucans, a spider monkey and the popular red pandas.
  — USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
• The float, which was 35 feet tall and 55 feet long, featured tamarin monkeys with bright orange hair made of layered marigold petals and toucans with glistening black seaweed feathers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2020
• Not on display are any of the dozens of live animals that have been presented as gifts to the queen over the years, ranging from an elephant from Cameroon to sloths, toucans and even a giant armadillo from Brazil.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 24 July 2017
• At the top: Hikers occasionally see monkeys and toucans among the palm trees and orchids in the tropical forest.
  — Jamie Moore, USA TODAY, 29 June 2017
• There were trogons and toucans, curassows and woodpeckers.
  — National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2019
• Screens are the only divider separating you from the forest; you’ll be waked by howler monkeys rather than by an alarm clock, and entertained by the parrots, monkeys and toucans that like to hang out in the trees by the pool.
  — Danielle Braff, Houston Chronicle, 27 Dec. 2019
• Curl up in a hammock on your casita's terrace and take in the sights and sounds of the jungle canopy, from brightly colored bougainvillea and heliconia flowers to toucans and hummingbirds.
  — House Beautiful, 16 June 2023
• The animals include a peacock, a rabbit, a playful monkey, a toucan with a top hat (Hermès loves toucans) and a turtle wearing a bowler hat—a nod to the British designer.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 26 July 2022
• Tiki the toucan is a free bird after escaping the Flamingo Gardens wildlife sanctuary.
  — Erika Pesantes, Sun-Sentinel.com, 12 June 2018
• The Paris Zoological Park is home to some 180 species, many of which would be considered standard zoo fare: zebras, giraffes, penguins, toucans, turtles and the like.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 18 Oct. 2019
• When not battling tropical toucans, Lively has taken on a variety of acting projects in recent months.
  — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024