Covey
in sentence
6 examples of Covey in a sentence
There is a nice
covey
of bad guys who are not traceable because they wore masks during the robbery and never saw each other's faces.
These various types of shrubbery were as big as trees in the temperate zones; in the damp shade between them, there were clustered actual bushes of moving flowers, hedges of zoophytes in which there grew stony coral striped with twisting furrows, yellowish sea anemone from the genus Caryophylia with translucent tentacles, plus anemone with grassy tufts from the genus Zoantharia; and to complete the illusion, minnows flitted from branch to branch like a swarm of hummingbirds, while there rose underfoot, like a
covey
of snipe, yellow fish from the genus Lepisocanthus with bristling jaws and sharp scales, flying gurnards, and pinecone fish.
Like a
covey
of snipe over a marsh, there rose underfoot schools of unusual fish from the genus Monopterus, whose members have no fin but their tail.
A
covey
of terns alighted on the Nautilus.
'We shall very likely be up with another
covey
in five minutes,' said the long gamekeeper.
see that sickly creature asking alms!"Any one who has thrown a stone into a frog pond, or fired a shot into a
covey
of birds, can form an idea of the effect produced by these incongruous words, in the midst of the general attention.
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