How to Use willet in a Sentence

willet

noun
  • Depending on the time of the year, willets can display quite different color patterns.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2019-07-18
  • Ten least sandpipers, 34 semipalmated sandpipers, a willet, and two lesser and 10 greater yellowlegs were also seen.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2019-07-29
  • Willets Point United, a group composed mainly of the auto body shop owners who have long plied their trade on Willets’s rutted streets, celebrated the decision.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 2017-06-06

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