birdlime

Example Sentences

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As a reaction against the sunny hues of impressionism, the cubists had often painted with what looked like birdlime and various fine shades of mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Professor Lloyd breaks down their "trapping mechanisms" into six categories �pitfalls, lobster pots, snares, flypaper or birdlime traps, steel traps and mousetraps.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tables, people, pipes and wine bottles were all reduced to barely decipherable fragments, each seen from a different angle and painted in various shades of birdlime and mud.

From Time Magazine Archive

She went off to harvest the birdlime traps.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

The birdlime had entangled a few queleas and a mouse that had been attracted by their fluttering.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer