sabine's
/səbˈinz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "Well, the basic flight pattern of juvenile Kittiwake and Sabine’s Gull are indeed very similar. I defy any sea-watcher to deny – hand on heart – that he hasn’t strung the odd ‘Kitti’ in his time … even if his conscience got the better of him before he actually claimed a Sabine’s. […] I also knew I had never seen a Sabine’s – until that moment. […] It wasn’t a Kittiwake – more like a Little Gull in fact – but it was, without doubt, a Sabine’s."
- "On a pelagic trip to Stellwagen Bank off the Boston coast, I watched a group of this type take a humpback whale in stride, get mildly stirred by the schoolmarm’s jaeger, and merely glance at a shearwater. But they changed their tune when a Sabine’s gull emerged from a flock of unremarkables. “A Sabine’s!” yelled one. “I can’t believe it!” She rummaged her checklist out of her backpack."
- "But it has been pointed out that the courtship displays of the swallow-tailed gull, easily observed on the Galápagos, differ considerably from those of Sabine’s gull. Did a Sabine’s flock once colonize the Galápagos and fail to migrate north? If not the Sabine’s, which species was the ancestor of the swallow-tailed gull?"