The bird flew away with a worm in its beak.

Meaning: This sentence describes a bird carrying a worm in its mouth and flying away from its current location.

Choice of Words: Flew is the past tense of the verb fly, which means to move through the air. Away means to create distance from the current location or to move from the speaker. Worm is a small, soft-bodied animal that lives in the soil. Beak is the hard, pointed part of a bird's mouth.

Alternative Expressions

Related Expressions

• Bird pecked at the worm with its beak.
• The bird flew away with a crumb in its beak.
• Bird pecked at worm in beak.
• The bird put down the worm and flew away.
• The fish darted away from the heron's beak.
• Owl flew to nest with mouse in beak.
• Its beak moved like lightning, forming words.
• The woodpecker tapped its beak on the trunk of the tree.
• Its long beak sips the sweet nectar.
• The robin hopped along the ground, its beak searching for worms.