sandpiper

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Birdssandpipersand‧pip‧er /ˈsændˌpaɪpə $ -ər/ noun [countable] HBBa small bird with long legs and a long beak that lives near the shoreExamples from the Corpussandpiper• Buoyant as a duck, slender as a sandpiper, small as a dunlin.• Lightly as sandpipers marking the shoreline boats at the jetty sprang and rocked upon the green water.• As we taxied to a halt on the coastal grassy runway, we disturbed parties of curlew, sandpipers and grey plover.• They were like sandpipers at the edge of the surf-they lived inches from the water and their feet Were never wet.• A flock of sandpipers running at the edge of the waves lures me from the point.• In winter it is given over to turnstones, purple sandpiper, oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds.• Purple sandpipers arc the most self-effacing of birds.• For a while he stood on the soft sand, watching the waves break and the sandpipers scatter under them.

单词	sandpiper
释义	sandpiper From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Birdssandpipersand‧pip‧er /ˈsændˌpaɪpə $ -ər/ noun [countable] HBBa small bird with long legs and a long beak that lives near the shoreExamples from the Corpussandpiper• Buoyant as a duck, slender as a sandpiper, small as a dunlin.• Lightly as sandpipers marking the shoreline boats at the jetty sprang and rocked upon the green water.• As we taxied to a halt on the coastal grassy runway, we disturbed parties of curlew, sandpipers and grey plover.• They were like sandpipers at the edge of the surf-they lived inches from the water and their feet Were never wet.• A flock of sandpipers running at the edge of the waves lures me from the point.• In winter it is given over to turnstones, purple sandpiper, oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds.• Purple sandpipers arc the most self-effacing of birds.• For a while he stood on the soft sand, watching the waves break and the sandpipers scatter under them.
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