Example Sentences

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This will be beneficial for a host of wildlife and rare species, including nightingales.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2025

Yet prior to the new study, only humans and thrush nightingales have been observed singing songs that have a rhythmical structure—that is, containing features such as a “categorical rhythm.”

From Science Magazine • Oct. 25, 2021

Do nightingales shoot magic out of their cloacas?

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019

Knepp boasts the largest population in Britain of the Purple Emperor butterfly; nightingales, after years of decline, are nesting there in rising numbers.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019

Catelyn recognized Bryce Caron's nightingales, the Penrose quills, and Lord Estermont's sea turtle, green on green.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin