Example Sentences

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Perhaps you know this skinny-stilted bird as that deceitful little squawker who pulls out the high-drama “Ow! My leg!” distraction ploy when its nest is threatened.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 3, 2019

But Hitnes’s glossy black squawker isn’t the only painted bird to land in this Upper Manhattan neighborhood, where Audubon spent the last decade of his life.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2015

This occurred immediately after Reporter Brundidge had revealed that the murdered Julius Rosenheim, "squawker, fixer and shakedown artist," had been Reese's tipster.

From Time Magazine Archive

As to his voice—well, he is a genuine squawker.

From Birds of the Rockies by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)

He had run so fast that his breath came in whistles with the effect of a penny squawker.

From When Egypt Went Broke by Day, Holman