A half-dozen sails fluttered gull-like, and as many launches darted along, suggesting living water creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewel Weed] Reference

The peculiar gull-like whistle once more, to run in a softened series of echoes right up into the farthest part of the cavern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap] Reference

I visited last May I saw a wide bay, two rocky headlands extending far into the sea, and this offing was filled with a multitude of gull-like sails.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Painting] Reference

The foraging crow continually turns his head, gull-like and harrier-like, from side to side, as if to search the ground thoroughly or to concentrate his vision on some vaguely seen object.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afoot in England] Reference

Tabuenca gave no heed; but all at once, seized with the utmost indignation, he snatched the cigar furiously from his mouth and began to blaspheme in a whining, gull-like voice, shrieking that he couldn't make out why folks pestered him with matters that didn't concern him a particle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest] Reference

All sail being set, he now cast loose the life-line, reserved for swaying him to the main royal-mast head; and in a few moments they were hoisting him thither, when, while but two thirds of the way aloft, and while peering ahead through the horizontal vacancy between the main-top-sail and top-gallant-sail, he raised a gull-like cry in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

FWC SEARCHES FOR CAUSE OF EAST COAST SEABIRD DIE-OFF yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'FWC SEARCHES FOR CAUSE OF EAST COAST SEABIRD DIE-OFF'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has received reports of more than 200 dead or sick greater shearwaters, a gull-like bird, since Saturday along Florida\'s east coast.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [FWC SEARCHES FOR CAUSE OF EAST COAST SEABIRD DIE-OFF] Reference

A gull-like bird called a shearwater belong to the "tube-nosed swimmers," on account of their curious long beaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of California] Reference

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has received reports of more than 200 dead or sick greater shearwaters, a gull-like bird, since Saturday along Florida’s east coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [FWC SEARCHES FOR CAUSE OF EAST COAST SEABIRD DIE-OFF] Reference

A gull-like cry in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference