Vulture, e.g.

Usage examples of raptor.

No matter how intelligent, bondbirds were raptors, and likely to do unexpected things when injured and in pain, even one like Vree, brought up from an eyas and bonded before he was hard-penned.

The raptor remained still on the silver-banded stump, with folded wings, unless Kaff reached forward, whereupon it spread its wings, flashed its talons, and raked the air with its hooked beak.

Although the world is just outside what we think of as Zsinj-occupied space, a recently captured transmission, which our Intelligence people have decrypted, indicates that there is a Raptor unit in Syward, set up in the main construction plant of Skyrung Manufacturing, a licensee builder of Lambda-class shuttles.

Blades whose razor edges gleamed in the dancing light rose from exaggerated randers like miniature wings and flared from his vambraces like the raking claws of some clockwork raptor.

The juika-bloth of course had no animosity toward the stranger, but a raptor does not have to gaze very hard at a person to look fearsomely raptorial indeed.

When he used his magnifier screen, he saw the specks of Raptors circling and darting in the distance.

We are wildlife rehabilitators specializing in raptors and the corvidae, and apprentice falconers.

Some large raptors circled over the Flatirons, but the city was dead still.

He instructed his FIST commanders to arm their Raptors with Jerichos and have all of them on the ready line.

Why, First Sergeant Tacitus, over in Kilo Company, he caught one of his corporals, brought back a clutch of raptor eggs from Wanderjahr and was hatching them in a homemade incubator behind his wall locker!

Broad-winged raptors and agile dragonets swooped and darted in waves before the flames, feasting on the insects and small game that were being driven from their hiding places by the onrushing conflagration.

Quite frankly, Tad was damp, and he smelled likewelldamp raptor, a combination of wet feathers and the heavy musk that was peculiar to gryphons and birds of prey.

Animals simply burst into flame: Raptors burned like saplings and great armored herbivores cooked in their own monstrous shells.

They glowed like Christmas tree lightstheir veins, their pinfeathers, their eyes, their tiny raptor beaks.

I want those Raptors in the sky immediately and locked into the string-of-pearls.