Example Sentences

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A bird is singing in the garden and the swallows are twittering in a nest under the thatch.

From The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill by Caine, Hall, Sir

Only the birds and squirrels show any life or spirit; the former are twittering above my head, courting, it may be, or possibly discussing some detail of household economy.

From How to Cook Husbands by Worthington, Elizabeth Strong

Hark! the birds are twittering in the dew outside.

From The Return Of The Soul 1896 by Hichens, Robert Smythe

The sunshine showers across the grain, And the bluebird trills in the orchard tree; And in and out, when the eaves drip rain, The swallows are twittering ceaselessly.

From Graded Memory Selections by Hughes, Charles C.

Beyond the open window, where birds are twittering in the overhanging ivy, an English landscape of meadow and woodland, hills and hamlets, rolls far in the sunshine of a June morning.

From The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada by Graydon, William Murray