Petrel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PETREL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a kind of seabird
• a seabird related to the shearwaters, typically flying far from land.
• sea bird with a hooked bill and tubular nostrils
• Any one of numerous species of longwinged sea birds belonging to the family Procellaridae. The small petrels, or Mother Carey\'s chickens, belong to Oceanites, Oceanodroma, Procellaria, and several allied genera.
• relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a small seabird

Words related to PETREL

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Words that contain PETREL

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How to use PETREL in a sentence

• He might have been a real stormy petrel, breasting the billows in his birthday suit and expecting his feathers to be dried when and how the Lord pleased.
• This was as a protection to the hut in the periods of the great gales when all the island was as a tiny petrel in the maw of the hurricane.
• Wilson shot a number of Antarctic petrel and snowy petrel.
• It is pretty to see the snow petrel and Antarctic petrel diving on to the upturned and flooded floes.
• The Antarctic petrel has a pretty crouching attitude.
• A flight of Antarctic petrel accompanied the ship for some distance, wheeling to and fro about her rather than following in the wake as do the more northerly sea birds.
• When the petrel returned from a hunting trip and discovered that his wife had gone, he followed, and flapping his great wings raised a terrible storm at sea.
• Diane, Diane, Diane! It was the murmur of far-off voices, it was the whisper of the winds in the shrouds, it was the cry of the lonely gull and the stormy petrel.
• Sandy was at the tiller of the Swan and Martin held the wheel of the Petrel.
• While this was transpiring on board the Swan, Shaky had boarded the Petrel.
• The Petrel at once bore away, with Martin at the wheel and Shaky in command, Judith descending into the little caboose to prepare food.
• Yes, she was a stormy petrel, and she had no right to ruin Victor Joyselle and his family.
• But my home and my business is on her, and in her worst temper she suits me better than any four-walled room, where I would feel like a stormy petrel shut up in a cage.
• Here and there was an occasional hole in the earth where a stick might have been pressed in, showing that the stormy petrel had sometimes used his stick as a cane.
• He was the oddest of odd numbers, a stormy petrel indeed, and they did not know how to take him.
• And so the stormy petrel stood alone, as he would always stand alone.
• At first, as the Stormy Petrel dashed its way gallantly through the blue sea, he felt one absorbing sense of joy to have escaped from Roslyn.
• To say that a petrel resembled a kite would be of no value to one who knew nothing of either bird.
• Under reduced sail the ship, like the petrel with closed wing, waited the coming blast.
• The sooty petrel had appropriated a certain grassy part of the island to herself, and retained her position with a degree of obstinacy not easily to be overcome.
• They sometimes get into the burrows of the sooty petrel, and probably destroy the young.
• The bishop had become the stormy petrel of colonial politics, and nature had in truth well fitted him for just such a role.
• I see beyond the friendly vales, And grand old hills that guard my home, To where the seaward petrel sails And storm winds of the Northland moan.
• The petrel is a bird not much unlike a swallow, but smaller, and with a shorter tail.

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