Example Sentences

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Rising feed costs have jacked up the average price of a pair of turtledoves by $33.3% to $600.

From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2022

Just like the way she is using tinsel and turtledoves.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2021

Endangered turtledoves have appeared, as have rare bats and owls, beetles and moths.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019

Who needs two turtledoves or a partridge in a pear tree when there are so many species under the sea, including the seasonally appropriate angelfish?

From The New Yorker • Nov. 16, 2018

We have such funny times, and now I can enjoy them, for everyone is so desperately good, it’s like living in a nest of turtledoves.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott