privet hawk

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noun

a hawk moth, Sphinx ligustri, with a mauve-and-brown striped body: frequents privets

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Words nearby privet hawk

privatism, privative, privatization issue, privatize, privet, privet hawk, privilege, privileged, privileged altar, privily, privity

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How to use privet hawk in a sentence

When Donald Regan asked, “Did we object to Israelis sending HAWK ... missiles to Iran?”
How the Reagan White House Bungled Its Response to Iran-Contra Revelations|Malcolm Byrne|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The NSPG meeting defined the official line on the HAWK deal, but it did not address the funding diversion.
How the Reagan White House Bungled Its Response to Iran-Contra Revelations|Malcolm Byrne|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Monk said to Hawk, 'You're the great Coleman Hawkins, right?
The Stacks: John Coltrane’s Mighty Musical Quest|Nat Hentoff|October 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For me, I signed on to The Avengers 1-3 and then Hawk-Eye, in case they want to do a Hawk-Eye spin-off.
Jeremy Renner Opens Up About Marriage, His Problems with the Media, and the Future of Hawk-Eye|Marlow Stern|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Most Americans have viewed Africa through the lens of LiveAid or Black Hawk Down or the altruistic whims of Madonna.
How I Got Addicted to Africa (and Wrote a Thriller About It)|Todd Moss|September 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Since Henry Hawk could sit in a great elm far up the road and see himp.
The Tale of Grandfather Mole|Arthur Scott Bailey
Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.
The Soldier of the Valley|Nelson Lloyd
The memory of the hawk-nosed, steel-eyed officer who rode from Kurnaul to Meerut in twenty-four hours smote him like a whip.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
This one I brought home and kept in my aviary till March, 1868, when it was killed by a Hawk striking it through the wires.
Birds of Guernsey (1879)|Cecil Smith
A giant of a fellow with an eye like a hawk and a big black beard that seems, somehow, to suggest a blacksmith.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy