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birdcage

[burd-kayj] / ˈbɜrdˌkeɪdʒ /


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At one point, a dancer contorts herself as she carries Particle, tucked in a birdcage, across a room.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024

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

But then she looked up, and in the floor of the birdcage, like a spider in the center of a web, was the symbol she had been seeking.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Bunny Campione, an expert on the long-running BBC series, included antique birdcages and miniature furniture among the 20 lots up for grabs.

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

There are fin-de-siècle birdcages where car and shaft are unenclosed but for ornate wrought-iron gates and the ride brings a pleasant rush of vertigo.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017

Ms. Lena goes over to the shelf where the lightning birdcages are.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas




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