cawing
- present participle of caw.
Example Sentences
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Cawing crows provided an apt prelude to Bartók’s savage Third Quartet.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 29, 2015
Cawing, hopping, flapping and gobbling, the Royal Rooks celebrated.
From Time Magazine Archive
With their Hollaing and Shouting a continual Roar like the Cawing and Clacking of innumerable Rooks and Jackdaws.
From Manners & Cvftoms of ye Englyfhe Drawn from ye Qvick by Doyle, Richard
"Or perhaps," replied Anne slowly, "my rooks have given me a lesson in—in—" "Cawing," suggested Frances, impertinently.
From It May Be True, Vol. III (of III) by Wood, Mrs. Henry
Cawing rooks streamed back from the fallow-fields across the valley.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
