songless

How to use songless in a sentence

• They are a songless tribe, although their quick, reiterated call as they take to flight has given them the name of chatterers.

  Little Rivers | Henry van Dyke

• The males, who sing, have more white on the wings and tail than the females, who are songless.

  Citizen Bird | Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues

• While the Flycatchers are therefore technically classed as songless birds, it does not follow that they have no songs.

  Color Key to North American Birds | Frank M. Chapman

• The poet wonders what "songless tongueless ghost of sin crept through the curtains of the night."

  Oscar Wilde | Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

• That, then, is another of the supposed songless birds added to the list of singers.

  Upon The Tree-Tops | Olive Thorne Miller