Example Sentences

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I saw only the park's rocks, trees, squirrels and blue-jays.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out on the new-mown meadow she heard    Two blue-jays quarrel and fret, And the warning cry of a Phoebe bird    “More wet, more wet, more wet.”

From The Kingdom of Love by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

How could foxes and blue-jays and engines behave as if nothing were going to happen on the morrow?

From Rainbow Valley by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

It was a glorious day on which we drove out to Secundra, the air was musical with the merry notes of the minos, in their dusky red plumage, the little chirping bee-eaters, hoopoes, and blue-jays.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Ballou, Maturin Murray

He told her about his friend, Old Felix, and about the “sassy” blue-jays and the darting kingfisher that nested in the cut-bank where he worked, of the bush-birds that shared his sour-dough bread.

From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Lockhart, Caroline