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How to use the word ostrich in a Sentence?

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Our message to candidates is define yourself or other candidates will define it for you and you’re not going to like their version of you, the ostrich strategy of burying your head in the sand is not going to work.

Katie Daniel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We found a campsite, which extends over about 200 sq. m (2,153 square feet) that was used by the desert nomads since prehistoric times, at the site we found burnt stones, flint and stone tools as well as pottery sherds, but the truly special find is this collection of ostrich eggs. Although the nomads did not build permanent structures at this site, the finds allow us to feel their presence in the desert.

Lauren Davis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In just 40 samples, we detected 49 species spanning mammal, bird, amphibian, reptile and fish, in the Rainforest House( at Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark) we even detected the guppies in the pond, the two-toed sloth and the boa. When sampling air in just one outdoor site, we detected many of the animals with access to an outdoor enclosure in that part of Copenhagen Zoo in Denmark, for example kea, ostrich and rhino.

Kristine Bohmann

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You start to see things like decorated bones, beads made from marine shell or ostrich eggs, miniaturzied stone tools, and bones carved into things like arrow points. This is the oldest date we have for when this behavior is first observed, previous sites relating to this early period of modern humanbehaviorr have all been in South Africa and the East African Rift Valley, this is the first site on the coast of East Africa and the first with such a continuous record.

Dr Shipton

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I think that he extended an olive branch to President Obama and, for the first time, I heard him talk about both sides of the aisle, i think it was a way of Netanyahu pivoting to say ... 'I am not an ostrich putting my head in the sand, but we want to work with the U.S. on implementation.'.

David Makovsky

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's the largest egg from the largest bird that ever existed, it is related to the cassowary and the ostrich which are still with us today.

David Goldthorpe

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.

Akhenaten

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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