GULL in a Sentence

Learn GULL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for GULL, such as:

1. I like peeps better than the gulls.
2. Where the gull haunts and the heron stands.
3. One great gray bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven.
4. You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

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 Meanings and Examples of GULL
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gull
 n.  mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs
Classic Sentence:
1  A white-winged gull flew by, with the flash of sunshine on its silvery breast.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
2  You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
3  Where the gull haunts and the heron stands.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
4  One great gray bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor
5  Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
6  I like peeps better than the gulls.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
Example Sentence:
1  The Yukon's most common and widespread gull species arrive in early-May and breed throughout the area.