BIRD in a Sentence

Learn BIRD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
404 example sentences for BIRD, such as:
1. That bird tried to peck the baby.
2. Time is a bird for ever on the wing.
3. There is a beautiful bird in the cage.
4. The bird sang high and clearly in the tree.
5. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of BIRD
bird
 n.  a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
 n.  informal terms for a (young) woman
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  'Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle's Story
2  He was not like an Indian bird and she liked him and wondered if she should ever see him again.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  "Here he is," chuckled the old man, and then he spoke to the bird as if he were speaking to a child.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  The bird put his tiny head on one side and looked up at him with his soft bright eye which was like a black dewdrop.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  He looked at the plump little scarlet-waistcoated bird as if he were both proud and fond of him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  He felt as if he were being led to look at some strange bird's nest and must move softly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Then she saw it was meant for a nest with a bird sitting on it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  He says he feels sometimes as if he was a bird or a rabbit himself, he likes them so.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Swiftly something flew across the wall and darted through the trees to a close grown corner, a little flare of red-breasted bird with something hanging from its beak.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  It's no worse than hidin where a bird's nest is.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  Colin was almost too late but he just caught sight of him, the flash of red-breasted bird with something in his beak.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  He said his father laid mighty sick once, and some of them catched a bird, and his old granny said his father would die, and he did.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
15  "How much the bird reminds me of the musical box that belonged to our blessed Empress," said an old knight.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SWINEHERD
Example Sentence: (194 in 13 pages)
1  A bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk.
2  The bird that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing.
3  As the house is to the man, so is the nest to the bird and the cave to the animal.
4  That bird tried to peck the baby.
5  There is a beautiful bird in the cage.
6  This type of bird is very inconspicuous because of its dull feathers.
7  No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
8  The bird sang high and clearly in the tree.
9  A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
10  The fowler's pipe sounds sweet until the bird is caught.
11  The rock drawings depict a variety of stylized human, bird and mythological figures and patterns.
12  From the plane we had a bird's eye view of London.
13  Fifteen thousand bird watchers visit annually.
14  I was woken up in the early hours by a bird twittering just outside my window.
15  Time is a bird for ever on the wing.