birdcage
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Plenty more dinosaurs will arrive in the film’s two-hour-plus running time: swooping Quetzalcoatlus, splashing Mosasaurus, frilled Dilophosaurus and a bitty Whoknowswhatasaurus that Ali’s Duncan keeps in a bamboo birdcage by his boat dock in Suriname.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2025
In a rather tragic detail that feels straight out of a fable, Tiny Pinocchio was kept in a decorative metal birdcage when people visited the house to prevent him from accidentally getting squished.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
During one moment of digging, Volunteer Bekir Bicer uncovered a crushed birdcage, he said.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
There’s a wooden birdcage with chicken figurines, an ode to where he came from, and the evolution of his ambition.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2020
The elevator was prewar, with gilded, curving bars like a birdcage.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Sworders said Campione's collection of birdcages dated back as far as the 18th century, when the keeping of exotic birds was a popular pastime for affluent families.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
When birds disappear, people open their birdcages and release their confused pets up to the sky.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019
In others, birdcages are small prisons for a variety of objects placed inside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2019
The house on Bartram Road would be cleared of its birdcages after Angelou’s death in 2014.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2019
Get knocked into it with a fist of fatigue to avoid a night of noisy silence, empty birdcages that don’t need wrapping in cloth, of bold unsmiling girls staring from the mantelpiece.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
