How to Use buzzard in a Sentence

buzzard

noun

• And birds of prey like buzzards, sparrowhawks, barn owls, and tawny owls.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 13 Sep. 2023
• They were told to watch for circling buzzards and to check foul-smelling trash cans.
  — Max Londberg and Laura Bauer, kansascity.com, 7 June 2017
• In any case, the buzzards were circling like in an old western.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
• Lucas is a tough-minded old buzzard.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 23 June 2026
• That could be some sort of vision, a buzzard eating a dead bobcat.
  — al, 21 Mar. 2020
• Sparrows, pigeons, and buzzards in the sky watching me.
  — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
• Over the years, Kotulak has seen just about every sort of buzzard fan.
  — Bruce Geiselman, cleveland.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Just hours old, the little guy was exposed to the elements and just a few hours away from the buzzards circling.
  — Angela Helm, The Root, 22 May 2018
• There follow chapters about somewhat less likely things, like the fate of someone raised by buzzards.
  — New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
• These were honey-buzzards, heading south to winter quarters in Africa.
  — Jenny Uglow, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• Weekend 1 of the rest of our vile virus lives perched like a buzzard over our collective behavior this weekend.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 18 May 2020
• And other teams continue to circle over the Pistons' roster like buzzards in the desert.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 20 Jan. 2020
• Like buzzards and vultures, condors are scavengers—aka nature’s clean-up crew—that feast on the remains of dead animals.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2023
• However, the creature pictured in the team’s logo and used as a live mascot at games is an Augur buzzard.
  — Greg Cote february 4, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2026
• Health, sequencing, buzzard’s luck, bad decisions and a snowball type of effect can bury a team already gasping for air.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 17 June 2021
• The black vulture has a black head and is different from the turkey vulture, which is the bird most of us in Alabama call a buzzard.
  — Ike Morgan | [email protected], al, 3 July 2023
• There were also five monkeys, an emu, a pelican, two buzzards, two porcupines, two tortoises, and a doe.
  — Richard Tenorio, National Geographic, 26 Sep. 2016
• Authorities are also looking for signs that the suspect may have died in the forest, like buzzards circling overhead.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2024
• And, naturally, there are lesser parasites dining on what the buzzard leaves behind.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 23 May 2017
• Twenty-six bird species in the world are called buzzards, including the honey-buzzard, the lizard buzzard, the forest buzzard and the long-legged buzzard.
  — Jerry Butler, Arkansas Online, 31 Oct. 2022
• If there are fewer small mammals, there is less food for their natural predators, such as red foxes, steppe polecats, upland buzzards, brown bears and mountain weasels.
  — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 24 May 2023
• So the family's buzzard-ish instinct for economic and social carrion remains pretty sharp.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 June 2017
• The division’s mascot is a cartoon buzzard, in apparent honor of their tendency to circle.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2023
• Dogs and buzzards fought over a dead cat in the middle of the street, directly across from an officer who watched the ferocious struggle from a barred window, twirling the ends of his moustache.
  — Alexander Sammon, Harper's Magazine, 25 July 2022
• Hunters and conservationists opposed to the change in the code are concerned that scavengers like coyotes and buzzards may be exposed to the poison and spread it throughout the ecosystem.
  — Aaron Sidder, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
• As military governor of the city, so the legend goes, Funston presided over a clean-up so thorough that buzzards left town, since there was nothing left to scavenge.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 4 Apr. 2020
• By December, all that remain are the clean-up crew — hawks, owls, buzzards — the noisemakers — crows, jays, woodpeckers — and the winter flock of dusky little ones.
  — Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
• The downtown Holiday Inn gig where a pair of giant buzzards perched beside him on his scaffolding looking for a meal 20 flights up.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Farther down the hall from the small birds is the raptors’ room, which on this particular day was home to a partridge, a crow, a buzzard, an owl and a greenfinch — all kept in separate, locker-sized cages.
  — Jess McHugh, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2024
• The buzzards stalking the household ought to inspire a shiver of dread, but the actors in capes and giant bird masks feel terribly earthbound and on-the-nose as predatory symbols of bigotry.
  — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 23 July 2019