tyrant flycatcher

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Origin of tyrant flycatcher

First recorded in 1775–85

Words nearby tyrant flycatcher

Tyrannosaurus rex, tyrannous, tyrannulet, tyranny, tyrant, tyrant flycatcher, tyre, Tyree, Tyrian, Tyrian purple, tyro

How to use tyrant flycatcher in a sentence

Twelve-year-old dance prodigy Maddie Ziegler has suffered the wrath of Dance Moms tyrant Abby Lee Miller.
See Burly Shia LaBeouf Interpretive Cage Fight Lil Sia in the Singer’s Fantastic New Music Video|Marlow Stern|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
On Christmas weekend, a North Korean tyrant has decided what American teenagers will see on the silver screen.
The Sony Hack and America’s Craven Capitulation To Terror|David Keyes|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
After clashing with coach Victor Tikhonov, a KGB-installed tyrant, he chose to challenge the government and defect to the NHL.
Putin’s Hockey Pal Tells All: Slava Fetisov on ‘Red Army,’ Soviet Nostalgia, and What Drives Putin|Marlow Stern|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Rivers continued on her political, authoritarian monologue by describing what kind of tyrant she would be.
What Joan Rivers Said She Would Do If She Were Dictator of America|Asawin Suebsaeng|September 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And that isn't even the biggest political problem with Tyrant.
Generic and Superficial ‘Tyrant’ Amerisplains the Middle East|Andrew Romano|June 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the meantime, the outlaw, having observed how much more cordially the tyrant is received than himself, has made his exit.
Physiology of The Opera|John H. Swaby (AKA "Scrici")
Myiodynastes luteiventris luteiventris Sclater: Sulfur-bellied Flycatcher.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
Myiozetetes similis texensis (Giraud): Vermilion-crowned Flycatcher.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
Myiarchus tuberculifer platyrhynchus Ridgway: Olivaceous Flycatcher.
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
To remove a tyrant is an act of liberation, the giving of life and opportunity to an oppressed people.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman

British Dictionary definitions for tyrant flycatcher

tyrant flycatcher

noun

any passerine bird of the American family TyrannidaeOften shortened to: flycatcher

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