bevy
noun
a group of birds, as larks or quail, or animals, as roebuck, in close association.
bevies
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pluralof bevy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The two became not only financial associates but social pals, traveling on Low’s jet with bevies of other boldfaced names to parties all over the world.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2023
Willy-nilly every man, no matter how graceless his exterior, plays the polite host to bevies of little animals who pasture on his interior reaches.
From Time Magazine Archive
Author Baumann rescues bevies of these politicians from oblivion, restores them to public note.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Roman Catholic Marylander whose family has grown tobacco there since 1655. he has a strong craving for the gentleman farmer's life of herds, droves, flocks and bevies, of hunting, fishing and camping.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the nesting season, when the birds are in bevies, their notes are changed to what sportsmen term “scatter calls.”
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897 by Various
