Example Sentences

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Now they’re co-starring in the director Rob Marshall’s ambitious live-action reimagining, currently in theaters: Diggs, 41, as the sympathetic crab Sebastian, and Awkwafina, 34, as the birdbrained gull Scuttle.

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

On the surface, this may sound like a birdbrained idea.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2017

This birdbrained collecting reflects relatively instinctual behavioral patterns.

From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2011

It is the script's lone innovation to take a familiar pair of birdbrained buddies and double the dose.

From Time • Aug. 11, 2011

When she was not shuffling the extra deck of cards, she sat squinting into a tiny pocket mirror, brushing mascara on her curling reddish eyelashes in a birdbrained effort to make them longer permanently.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller