Example Sentences

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Some sandpiper groups sound like fancy Victorian musical instruments or board games: whimbrels and willets, dowitchers, dunlins, shanks, and tattlers.

From The Verge • Jun. 26, 2016

This weekend’s special three-hour edition heads to the vast Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where you can expect to see osprey, peregrine falcons, willets and many other species.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2015

This weekend’s trip heads to the huge Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, where you can expect to see osprey, peregrine falcons, willets and many other species.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2015

Other shoreline birds, such as curlews, plovers and willets, which feed on sand creatures, had fled the area.

From Time Magazine Archive

In less than two days he and the terns and willets reached Delaware Bay.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George