parrakeet

How to use parrakeet in a sentence

• It was so often upon Crozier's lips that Lorenzo the Magnificent (the parrakeet) had acquired it perfectly.

  The Orchard of Tears | Sax Rohmer

• Of birds some species of parrakeet, the “mandarin” blackbird, and the woodcock are not found in the rest of Indo-China.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 | Various

• But they found the house empty, except for a chattering monkey and a screaming parrakeet, both attached to pedestal perches.

  The Adventures of Kathlyn | Harold MacGrath

• There were more farewells in shallow water, more running to and fro; a brief reappearance of the undecided parrakeet.

  Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas | Lloyd Osbourne

• Bird-sellers give the name of Guinea-sparrow to this little parrakeet, which is not larger than the common crossbill.

  The Natural History of Cage Birds | J. M. Bechstein