gull-like

Slender bodies and long necks are a giveaway, and the thin, gull-like wings beat in a longer arc than a mallard's or a wigeon's.

Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl 2004

Slender bodies and long necks are a giveaway, and the thin, gull-like wings beat in a longer arc than a mallard's or a wigeon's.

Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl 2004

All sail being set, he now cast loose the life-line, reserved for swaying him to the main royal-mast head; and in a few moments they were hoisting him thither, when, while but two thirds of the way aloft, and while peering ahead through the horizontal vacancy between the main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail, he raised a gull-like cry in the air.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

As if in salute, it tilted a gull-like wing at them for a moment, then achieved warp speed with a flash of light, and was gone.

Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

As if in salute, it tilted a gull-like wing at them for a moment, then achieved warp speed with a flash of light, and was gone.

Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

As if in salute, it tilted a gull-like wing at them for a moment, then achieved warp speed with a flash of light, and was gone.

Sanctuary John Vornholt 1992

Other parents are now arriving thick and fast; with a swift gull-like movement each of them swoops down upon its appropriate sardine, and in nearly every case there is an unmistakable kiss.

Try Anything Twice 1938

Tabuenca gave no heed; but all at once, seized with the utmost indignation, he snatched the cigar furiously from his mouth and began to blaspheme in a whining, gull-like voice, shrieking that he couldn't make out why folks pestered him with matters that didn't concern him a particle.

The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

A half-dozen sails fluttered gull-like, and as many launches darted along, suggesting living water creatures.

Jewel Weed Alice Ames Winter 1904

There were tramplings and gull-like cries from on deck.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900