- present tense form of rush (3rd person singular).
rushes
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Every spring, the familiar songs of Wood Thrushes and warblers drift back into parks and neighborhoods across eastern North America.
From Science Daily • Nov. 22, 2025
Thrushes nest in northern New England in summer, but Mattison found only one account of a thrush sighting in winter.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2018
They land just out of sight on a rain gutter and they typically catch Robbins - Wood Thrushes as they have a bit of mass to them.
From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2017
Thrushes migrate south in the autumn and north in the spring.
From Scientific American • Dec. 28, 2011
The Thrushes and Blackbirds have been singing me into an idea that it was Spring, and almost that leaves were on the trees.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
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