whippoorwill

How to use whippoorwill in a sentence

• And if I win, I claim the first whippoorwill you shoot; the second may go to your aunt.

  The Rose of Old St. Louis | Mary Dillon

• The nighthawk and whippoorwill are its relatives, and it resembles them not a little, especially in its nocturnal habits.

  Bird Neighbors | Neltje Blanchan

• In fact, Tory and Miss Frean did not go indoors until, from somewhere deep in the woods, a whippoorwill began his evening call.

  The Girl Scouts in Beechwood Forest | Margaret Vandercook

• In the warm, scented dusk the locusts shrilled in the trees, and far up the gorge the whippoorwill called and called.

  Audrey | Mary Johnston

• He heard Quekolis, the whippoorwill, raising his doleful lament down near the river.

  Running Fox | Elmer Russell Gregor