birds
Example Sentences
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Outside the window he heard some jaybirds swirl shrieking past and away, their cries whipping away along the wind, and an automobile passed somewhere and died away also.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
The five jaybirds whirled over the house, screaming, and into the mulberries again.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
O, that the featherless jaybirds now trying to twitter in long-primer type would apply the soft pedal unto themselves, would add no more to life's dissonance and despair!
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 by Brann, William Cowper
He eats woodpeckers, jaybirds, hawks and skunks, drawing the line only at crows and buzzards.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
Why, the jaybirds an' the robins, They was hand in glove with me, As they winked at me an' warbled In that old apple-tree.
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean
