peewee
Example Sentences
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Evenden, lurking in the bushes, spotted itinerant yellow-throats, towhees, pewees, chickadees, ruby-throated hummingbirds, red-eyed vireos and a red-breasted nuthatch.
From Time Magazine Archive
One morning before the wood pewees were up, I was smoking a mess of fish I had caught in the stream.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
Stretched on the boughs, I listened to the wood pewees calling their haunting good nights until I fell sound asleep.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The vireos and pewees and gnats were still building, I reflected thankfully, though trembling for their future; and fortunately the hangbird had young.
From A-Birding on a Bronco by Merriam, Florence A.
The eaves were daubed with mud carried by the pewees in the building of their yearly nests.
From The Deacon of Dobbinsville A Story Based on Actual Happenings by Morrison, John Arch
