Ostrich

//ˈɒs.tɹɪt͡ʃ//

"Ostrich" in a Sentence (15 examples)

The pigeon and the ostrich are both birds; one can fly and the other cannot.

An ostrich does not fly through the air.

The ostrich has wings, but it cannot fly.

An ostrich cannot fly any more than a kangaroo can.

That's why ostrich meat costs more than twice as much as beef and pork.

This is the most beautiful ostrich I've ever seen.

"Ostrich!"—and everyone stuck their heads under the table.

He hides his head in the sand, like an ostrich.

He stuck his head in the sand like an ostrich.

An ostrich egg weighs as much as twenty-four chicken eggs.

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Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?

The Ostrich hath a compounded name in Greek and Latin—Struthio-Camelus, borrowed from a bird and a beast, as being a feathered and biped animal, yet in some ways like a camel; somewhat in the long neck; somewhat in the foot; and, as some imagine, from a camel-like position in the part of generation.

"But is not this fortunate?" continued she, taking up a superb plume of white ostrich feathers, fastened by a small agraffe, enamelled so as to represent a bunch of violets; "this is just what you wanted for the velvet cap you are to wear at Madame de l'Hôpital's masked ball."

The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.

The Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco love to hunt the ostrich

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