nightingale

Example Sentences

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Through the years, she was often compared to her elder sister - who was revered as the "nightingale" of Bollywood and died in 2022 - but Bhosle built a distinct identity.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

Animals have always come and gone, medieval wolves, later Keats’ nightingale, later still a rare wallaby, spotted bounding through the trees in spring 2019.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020

That was mine because I liked that idea that, for once, a nightingale actually did sing in Berkeley Square.

From The Verge • May 30, 2019

He was a pale, thin man in early middle age; his name was Teukros Basilides, and his dæmon was a nightingale.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman