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
Mindy is bracingly funny but also masculine enough to intimidate Jerry, the delicate peacock in this gilded birdcage.
From Salon ● May 29, 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
It was made of dirty stone, with only one lone window, and just barely visible in the window was what looked like a birdcage.
From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket
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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
The house on Bartram Road would be cleared of its birdcages after Angelou’s death in 2014.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2019
Vasquez, 54, had become known as the Birdman of East Village for his daily walks around downtown and Balboa Park with a tower of three birdcages strapped to his back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2019
Especially since they were sitting in front of five birdcages, which, Genie realized, if you looked past the entwining vines and leaves, were arranged in a semicircle.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
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