pewee

How to use pewee in a sentence

• The wood pewees show that devotion to each other and to their home, characteristic of their family.

  Bird Neighbors | Neltje Blanchan

• Once the children of a man employed about the place oologized the nest, and the pewees left us for a year or two.

  My Garden Acquaintance | James Russell Lowell

• He was delighted with the mill attached to the property, and with the pewees who built their nests near by.

  Famous Men of Science | Sarah K. Bolton

• One day a family of wood pewees visited the dooryard of my tent.

  Our Bird Comrades | Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

• Birds were busy; wood-thrushes and pewees were calling; now and then a golden-throated warbler sounded his clear note.

  A Little Maid of Ticonderoga | Alice Turner Curtis