sandhill crane

[ sand-hil ]

/ ˈsændˌhɪl /

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noun

a North American crane, Grus canadensis, having bluish-gray plumage and a red forehead.

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Origin of sandhill crane

1795–1805, Americanism;sandhill,late Middle English sond hille,Old English sondhyll.See sand, hill

Words nearby sandhill crane

sandglass, sand-groper, sand grouse, S and H, sandhi, sandhill crane, Sandhoff's disease, sandhog, sand hopper, Sandhurst, sandhya

How to use sandhill crane in a sentence

From the east, it follows the Platte River Valley from Omaha and dips into Kearney, home to the astounding sandhill crane migration in spring.
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Excited, Shaheen wasted no time and began interviewing surgeons, deciding upon Dr. Curtis Crane in Greenbrae, California.
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During our meeting, Yuji took a small paper crane from a plastic box and dropped it into my palm.
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This is a project run by the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership.
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If I look hard enough online, will I find video of you in one of those whooping crane suits?
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I made it physical, and the actors were really hanging from a crane 100 feet above the ground.
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A huge string game-bag was slung over his back, and in an antelope's horn or a crane's bill bullets were carried.
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They did so, and Crane looked up at the fat hardware man with eyes that were not quite so contemptuous.
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"Ten thousand eight hundred," Crane's youth bid, desperately.
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He went back to his hardware store and waited—waited for Crane and Keith to start their inevitable logging operations.
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After long delays Crane and Keith made pretense of building camps and starting to log.
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