eyrie
noun
eyries
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pluralof eyrie.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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And while most of the California coast was sprouting pink motels, filling stations, and the cantilevered eyries of the rich, this stretch of Monterey County kept its rugged beauty.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two battle-cruisers blown up in the Channel; what in God's name were two battle-cruisers doing in the mine-strewn Channel when their proper place was in one of the safe eyries overlooking the North Sea?
From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone
They yelped indignantly at him, and flew off to perch on their eyries and brood over the problem.
From Hoof and Claw by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
Belike, the eagles, from their eyries look down upon us Mardians, in our hives, even as upon the beavers in their dams, marveling at our incomprehensible ways.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Thousands of gray sea-birds were sailing around their eyries, along its dark craggy sides far above us, while its hollow recesses reverberated their shrill cries, till to our ears they sounded like one continued scream.
From The Portland Sketch Book by Various
