nightingale

Example Sentences

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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

It was on Hampstead Heath that John Keats pondered the beauty of nature, nightingale song and mortality.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2021

In 1924, the BBC recorded the cellist Beatrice Harrison playing in her garden accompanied by a nightingale.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 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

The Roman writers who told the story somehow got the sisters confused and said that the tongueless Philomela was the nightingale, which was obviously absurd.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton