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ostrich

An ostrich is a large bird that cannot fly. The ostrich can run up to speeds of 70 kilometres per hour.

ostrich

fast-running African flightless bird with two-toed feet; largest living bird a person who refuses to face reality or recognize the truth (a reference to the popular notion that the ostrich hides from danger by burying its head in the sand)

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The pigeon and the ostrich are both birds; one can fly and the other cannot.
These are ostrich eggs.
An ostrich does not fly through the air.
The ostrich has wings, but it cannot fly.
An ostrich can not fly any more than a kangaroo can.
That's why ostrich meat costs more than twice as much as beef and pork.
This is the most beautiful ostrich I've ever seen.
He stuck his head in the sand like an ostrich.
An ostrich egg weighs as much as twenty-four chicken eggs.
An ostrich can't fly.
The ostrich is a flightless bird.
He hides his head in the sand, like an ostrich.
Why can't an ostrich fly?
I have seen an ostrich at the zoo.
What's the average lifespan of an ostrich?

Movie subtitles

An ostrich egg in a glass.
He's half-Indian and half-ostrich.
Jewels, fans and ostrich feathers!
An ostrich in a zoo.
For the ostrich do not run away.
Henri, stop playing ostrich! Hold this!
Here, you, follow that ostrich!
Is that an ostrich out there?
We found an ostrich egg for you.
I will not be an ostrich, my friends!
Don't imitate the ostrich!
I declare I won't be an ostrich!
Somebody left the ostrich pen open.
Well, you might say she's a cross between an alligator and an ostrich.
He ate ostrich eggs, roasted gazelle and lion meat.
There are a couple of hundred ostrich feathers. in each of those headdresses.
This year it's ostrich feathers, red, white and blue.
Sir Henry Vining is a human ostrich.
It's a two piece suit with a busby in ostrich feathers.
The ostrich buries his head in the sand.. andsometimesin theflag.
I won't be an ostrich and bury my head in the sand.
Now, for added measure. here is a feather from the world's fastest bird, the ostrich.
I'm at O for ostrich, 72.
Great, now we're on an ostrich chase.
Cross an ostrich with a radio, it becomes invisible.
And lo and behold, his name was Ostrich!
Its chemical composition was very similar to that of an ostrich feather which is, as you know, a typical adornment of the medieval armoury helmet.
I thought we might do something bizarre, with a chandelier and some ostrich feathers.
He's like a motherfuckin' ostrich.
A hat with ostrich-feathers!
You plunged your head in the sand like ostrich and you push and push.
And the ostrich eats anything at all.
Are these ostrich feathers?
I understand, sea ostrich.

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