How to Use tern in a Sentence

tern

noun

• Keep your eyes open along the coastline for nesting terns.
  — Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 7 Aug. 2025
• But now, with daylight waning, the terns need to head south.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2025
• Lighter, more buoyant flyers like terns, will stay with the storm longer.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 22 Sep. 2017
• White terns have about the same body length as pigeons but a larger wingspan.
  — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
• There are more birds now, common terns and healthier sea gulls.
  — Amelia Nierenberg, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2019
• Overhead, white fairy terns hover and peep among the coconut trees.
  — James Shreeve, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2004
• The Whiskered tern suffered a hard, head-first crash landing on this rock.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
• Overhead, white fairy terns hover and peep among coconut trees.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• Once the young have left the nest, Forster’s terns often migrate to the coasts.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
• During their journey, terns must watch out for raptors and gulls that might prey on them.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• Barn owls and mongoose, other species that like to feed on terns, are rare in the urban core.
  — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
• The tern is in pursuit of the sun as it shifts over the Earth with the change in the seasons.
  — Kate Siber, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
• There were terns – with their yellow beaks and black heads – stumbling about having seizures on the sand.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 7 Feb. 2025
• Smolts are picked off by birds like double crested cormorants and caspian terns.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• The ribbons also help bird-watchers keep track of the white terns, as does an online map.
  — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
• Howard said that three or four sooty terns (seabirds) working a weedline is often a good sign of dolphin.
  — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 May 2017
• Do not build campfires or bonfires, light off fireworks, or fly kites on beaches where plovers and terns nest.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 6 July 2024
• Nearby a Herring gull chick sought shelter under the shade of a dead tern.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2022
• The island is a nesting site for rare species of petrels, shearwaters and terns.
  — Evan Halper, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Our guides make a towering bonfire as Arctic terns waltz above the cold, blue ocean.
  — Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
• In a single day, a tern may fly as much as 300 miles, stopping only briefly to feed.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
• Wild birds like ducks, geese, swans, storks, plovers, sandpipers, gulls and terns are all susceptible to bird flu.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 24 Jan. 2025
• For the tern, those features enable ultra-efficient, long range flights.
  — Eric Adams, Wired, 12 June 2020
• But some elegant terns — anchovy-loving seabirds that nest in large colonies — fly all the way down to Chile.
  — Emily Anthes, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• The terns and pelicans have gone to roost, and the dolphins no longer crisscross the water by the hundreds.
  — Erik Vance, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
• Arctic terns and Aleutian terns gather together on ocean spits to scratch out nest cups.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2019
• At Cranes Beach in Ipswich, four black skimmers and a royal tern were seen.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2021
• Two black vultures and a fly-over Caspian tern were observed in the Blue Hills.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2021
• The adult tern flew tirelessly, looking for fish to feed its young, which patiently waited.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Whales spouted, dolphins broke the water, pelicans skimmed, terns dove, and sea lions spun all around me.
  — Maria Finn, Longreads, 28 Aug. 2017