Example Sentences

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But he’ll favor a slow, dull one with Uber as long as those insipid boxes are squawking in yellow cabs.

From New York Times • May 23, 2015

West Germany, which has yet to contribute anything much and whose legislators are squawking at the idea of offering anything significant, is in for some arm twisting when Baker visits Bonn this week.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sisters are squawking from the window above.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt

"Hark! the Herons are squawking again—won't you tell us about them now, Uncle Roy?"

From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz

"And the dogs are barking," I said, "and the guinea-hens are squawking."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 7, 1917 by Various