Ron Stallworth

If one black man aided by a bevy of good, decent, dedicated, and open liberal-minded whites and Jews can succeed in prevailing over a group of white racists by making them look like the ignorant fools that they are truly are, imagine what a nation of like-minded individuals can accomplish.

American Public Servant

Meghan Markle

Some women are able to wake up looking effortlessly chic - as though a bevy of fashion fairies twisted their low-lit locks into a messy chignon while they slept. They choose a frock from their exceptionally curated closet and leave a trail of custom fragrance and perfection in their wake.

American Actress

Sometimes 'bevy' suggests diversity within a group, not just quantity.

Figurative Usage

'Bevy' is often used for groups of women, hinting at charm or grace.

Slight Femininity

Metaphorically, 'bevy' can refer to collections of abstract things, like thoughts.

Metaphorical Groups

Though it can refer to any group, 'bevy' is traditionally used for birds.

Specific to Birds

'Bevy' is especially associated with a group of quails.

Quails Association

Use 'bevy' to evoke a sense of the natural world when describing birds.

Nature Focus

 to find, among the auditors in my classroom, a 90-year-old Hungarian, surrounded by a bevy of middle-aged European women who seemed to function as an entourage of Rhinemaidens. His name was Sandor Teszler. He was a puckish widower whose wife and children were dead

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 hippos aren't even there and if you think this is boring here's a baby hippo wading into a bevy of crocodiles you know it must be genetic the baby hippo immediately starts gnawing on the spines of the

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 technologies could enable a warfighter to focus under fire by turning his heart rate down or to sense an odorless biological threat or to directly and intuitively control a bevy of military