Used in a Sentence

flamingo

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for flamingo.

Editorial note

It's almost as if it thinks a pelican is just a white flamingo with a different beak.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of flamingo gathered in one view.

noun

A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

adjective

Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

noun

(countable) A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for flamingo.

noun

A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

adjective

Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

noun

(countable) A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.

Example sentences

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It's almost as if it thinks a pelican is just a white flamingo with a different beak.

2

Whether the author is gay, outgoing and wears flamingo shirts or is a grumpy old man in a shack in the mountains isn't material.

3

Caligula famously threw a banquet once consisting of thousands of flamingo tongues, camel heels, and roast ostrich.

4

The pink flamingo rebel from a few years back had to provide some good laughs.

5

Hi HN, I recently joined the small team behind Flamingo Compliance startup, which has been around since 2022.

6

It produces its own Neptune cruise missiles (100+), and developed the Flamingo cruise missile.

7

We claimed that Flamingo supports backward compatible file transfer with Messages and Adium users, not that we supported Apple accounts.

8

I'm happy to use an app like Textual for IRC and Flamingo for IM.

9

One would be hard pressed to design from scratch a working flamingo, and one would similarly be hard pressed to design from scratch a working economy.

10

As long as the plugins for Flamingo don't need filesystem access, or other privileged access, I would have thought it would be fine.

11

The Flamingo Drive one always cracked me up.

12

Man, I listened to them live at the Flamingo in Halifax.

Quote examples

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One would be hard pressed to design from scratch a working flamingo, and one would similarly be hard pressed to design from scratch a working economy." But what good is a flamingo?

Proper noun examples

1

Flamingo automatically updates your status between Available, Idle, Away, and Offline by monitoring the idle time of your computer.

2

Yeah, there's the Flamingo, Ukraine's cruise missile that uses old turbofan engines near the end of the service lives.

3

Flamingo is pretty close to a cruise missile in many ways.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use flamingo in a sentence?

It's almost as if it thinks a pelican is just a white flamingo with a different beak.

What does flamingo mean?

A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.

What part of speech is flamingo?

flamingo is commonly used as noun, adjective.