birdcage
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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
The last step was layering, like distributing smaller items like old trophies, board games or magazines, and putting a birdcage — a perfect metaphor — in a central location.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
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
It would be like Felicidad, Mamita's little canary, in her birdcage.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Campione has become known for her unique specialism in dolls, doll houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
The centerpiece is a wooden canoe, carrying various “passengers,” including birdcages, antlers and children’s chairs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2023
When birds disappear, people open their birdcages and release their confused pets up to the sky.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 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
I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
