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eyrie

[ UK /ˈi‍əɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈɛɹi/ ]
NOUN
  1. the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
  2. any habitation at a high altitude

How To Use eyrie In A Sentence

  • The assumptions that our estimates of the proportion of eyries associated with geese and the proportion of geese that nested with falcons are unbiased can be confirmed only by data collected from other areas.
  • Mr Boffin having been several times in communication with this clerkly essence, both on its own ground and at the Bower, had no difficulty in identifying it when he saw it up in its dusty eyrie. Our Mutual Friend
  • The sole survivor of three chicks hatched by a record-breaking pair of ospreys has taken its first tentative flight from its eyrie in Kielder Water and Forest Park in Northumberland. Treetop CCTV captures the first flight of an osprey chick
  • Over 100 eyries were known in Britain and at least 50 in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century.
  • In the tiny chalets perched on the mountain ridges, folks literally dwell in cloudland, and enjoy a kind of supernal existence, having for near neighbours the eagles in their eyries and the fleet-footed chamois or izard. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
  • In a state of profound agitation he arrived back at Elphaba's little eyrie atop the corn exchange. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • It's a balustraded eyrie in the triforium, the narrow gallery 60 feet above the ground.
  • The farm was beside Lake Eyrie and rain, along with bitter winds, would sweep over the vineyard.
  • Bald Eagles build large stick nests called eyries in tall trees or on cliffs.
  • From his eyrie he waved his hand to Captain Lynch, and that doughty patriarch waved back. THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
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