Birds, The
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Birds: The magazine Canadian Geographic recently nominated the gray jay as the national bird.
From Slate • Dec. 30, 2016
Big Data Is For the Birds: The mysteries of avian migration at night are being solved with computational power.
From Scientific American • Aug. 22, 2015
Early Birds The last time the Baltimore Orioles won a big-league pennant was in 1896.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Aristophanes' bawdy political satires, The Birds, The Clouds and The Frogs, got the hook at the Athens Festival.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Worst place of all, Kossovo, where not so long before she had celebrated Mass triumphantly, Kossovo, again to be as when it was first named "The Field of Black Birds," "The Field of Vultures."
From Serbia: A Sketch by Reed, Helen Leah
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