Crossword-Solution: OSTRICHES 9 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Africa's fastest-running bipeds 1 answer
Big egg producers 1 answer
Birds that can lay 3-pound eggs 1 answer
Emu look-alikes 1 answer
Feigns not to see. 1 answer
Head hiders 1 answer
Largest birds 1 answer
Sources of plumes 1 answer
Those who refuse to face problems 1 answer
Emu's kin 3 answers
Long-necked birds 5 answers
Flightless birds 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EAZECM
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eruption
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Sentences with OSTRICHES (5)

More modern views would not have startled her; they would simply have seemed foolish—thin chatter, like the boasts of the men who built the tower of Babel, or like Axel’s plan to breed ostriches in the chicken yard.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
MIRACLE MONGERS AND THEIR METHODS A COMPLETE EXPOSE' OF THE MODUS OPERANDI OF FIRE EATERS, HEAT RESISTERS, POISON EATERS, VENOMOUS REPTILE DEFIERS, SWORD SWALLOWERS, HUMAN OSTRICHES, STRONG MEN, ETC.
The Miracle Mongers, an Exposé Harry Houdini 1996
The interlaced boughs high up there seemed to slumber; not a leaf stirred overhead: and the reedy cast-iron lampposts in the middle of the road, gilt like scepters, diminished in a long perspective, with their globes of white porcelain atop, resembling a barbarous decoration of ostriches’ eggs displayed in a row.
End of the Tether Joseph Conrad 2006
The spacious and shady forest was immediately filled with a thousand ostriches, a thousand stags, a thousand fallow deer, and a thousand wild boars; and all this variety of game was abandoned to the riotous impetuosity of the multitude.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996
Bustards and ostriches, antelopes and wild asses, 48 appeared to be the only inhabitants of the desert; and the fatigues of the march were alleviated by the amusements of the chase.” The loose sand of the desert was frequently raised by the wind into clouds of dust; and a great number of the soldiers of Julian, with their tents, were suddenly thrown to the ground by the violence of an unexpected hurricane.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 1996

Quotes with OSTRICHES (3)

After all, when ‘the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become’ He resolved to ‘wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created — and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground — for I regret that I have made them’ (Genesis 6:7). The Bible thinks it is perfectly all right to destroy all animals as punishment for the crimes of Homo sapiens, as if the existence of giraffes, pelicans and ladybirds has lost all…
Yuval Noah Harari Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Flying is for the birds, the sugar gliders and the dreamers. Running is for the emus, the ostriches and the optimists. Walking is for the snails, the lame and the cautious explorer. All that is left are those who are afraid of the night, afraid of commitment, afraid of success and afraid of taking a chance in life. Luckily, I love to soar above the clouds, through the heavens, and journey to far distant galaxies and universes.
Anthony T. Hincks
In the land of the ostriches, the blind are king. When politicians bury their head in the sand, ignorance rules the country. ( "High noon." )
Erik Pevernagie
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1951–2020).