Examples of covey in a Sentence

A covey of schoolchildren approached. A covey of reporters came to the event.

Recent Examples on the Web Home gardens may see nesting mourning dove, a covey of baby quail, or the miracle of tiny hummingbird chicks hatching from miniature eggs in a nest not much bigger than a large thimble. — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2022 This slower afternoon there were couples strolling, a few runners, a covey of bicycles, a family out for an autumn city walk — kids, parents, an older woman moving carefully using a walker. — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Dec. 2021 Soon the covey moved on, and the quail whispers faded with them. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2021 Some mornings there will be a covey of as many as 30 quail feeding in our garden. — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019 Chukar also did well in southeast Oregon and coveys are relatively numerous in the popular Hells Canyon. — oregonlive, 20 Sep. 2019 Small coveys will slip out of the native vegetation into our garden and gather every day at our seed feeders. — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2019 The thin layer of ice on the washes sparkled in the sunshine, and occasionally a covey of birds exploded from beneath the brush, adding cymbals to an otherwise easy listening classical movement. — Joe Drape, New York Times, 12 June 2018 Transported from Georgia, the covey of quail had been released from a crate just days after 10 inches of snow fell and trees came crashing down in the wind. — Frank Kummer, Philly.com, 2 May 2018 See More

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