How to Use blackbird in a Sentence

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• There's a blackbird and there's a robin and a great tit and the rest have gone.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 20 May 2021
• So the blackbird was killed by a bird of prey, not a fox.
  — Alice Gregory, New York Times, 18 May 2017
• Still, as more of us nest at home, at least some of us see the pesky blackbird in a brighter light.
  — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 18 Aug. 2020
• The grackle is the foot-long blackbird with bright yellow eyes.
  — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 18 Mar. 2021
• The narrator dozes in the front seat of the car and wakes to find a blackbird hopping toward her.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2019
• Richard Dolbeer was once the man to call if millions of blackbirds or fruit bats were ravaging your fields.
  — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020
• One version added a courtyard with a limo, the likeness of Alfred Hitchock and blackbirds, as a wink to the building’s moniker.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 22 Dec. 2017
• Readers recognized the bird was too small to be a crow or raven and doesn’t hang out in flocks like the ubiquitous blackbird.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
• The male blackbirds tend to perch atop cattails, while the females spend more time on the ground, foraging and hopping around on lily pads.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
• In the poem, Stevens found 13 different ways of looking at a blackbird.
  — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
• The eagle kept soaring on, and the blackbird eventual gave up on proving its point and flew back home.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2019
• There is a beautiful moment when the narrator wants Jenny to hear the song of a blackbird.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
• There are 440 million fewer blackbirds than there once were.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2019
• The seething blackbird sank its wee claws into Janice's back but clearly didn't do much damage.
  — Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 9 July 2019
• Some of the birds included in the drop off include warblers, blackbirds, starlings, robins, and sparrows.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Its song is loud and musical and listeners often compare it to the song of the native blackbird.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
• From this vantage point, the sharp-talon Harris’s hawk kept an eye out for pesky seagulls, blackbirds and pigeons that make a mess on the roofs and steal food from guests lounging by the pool.
  — Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2019
• Overhead, a red-winged blackbird flew into an old apple tree.
  — Bill Leukhardt, Courant Community, 4 May 2017
• There were blackbirds circling above their own shadows, and beneath them the cows stood around smelling one another's butts.
  — Denis Johnson, Esquire, 26 May 2017
• Outside, two blackbirds landed one after the other on the electric wire.
  — Laila Lalami, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
• Birders also heard the avian operas of house finches, calls of northern flickers, trills of red-winged blackbirds.
  — Colleen Smith, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
• Anita Studer wanted to study the Forbes's blackbird, but the decimation of its habitat led her to plant millions of trees.
  — Marc Latzel, National Geographic, 14 Oct. 2016
• An animal control officer removed the healthy blackbird and returned it to the wild.
  — Washington Post, 9 May 2017
• On a recent visit, a bat flew over the tracks in a tunnel, raspberries stained the ground and a baby blackbird took its tentative first steps, yards away from the River Seine.
  — Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• Those can contain hundreds of thousands of birds of several blackbird species.
  — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Come March, red-wing blackbirds will return to Wisconsin, which Byers said makes them her harbingers of spring.
  — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2018
• His subconscious doesn't even make note of a whistling red-winged blackbird, passing helicopter or speeding bay boat.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Swallows, gulls and terns, crows, blackbirds and orioles, tyrant flycatchers and parids—all practice mobbing.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 6 July 2018
• Here, those moments come when sleep is elusive and the speaker's thoughts turn to a gardener cleaning up after a renegade snowstorm, the space between stars, or the sound of blackbirds in flight.
  — Elizabeth Lund, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 May 2017
• The designs include a depiction of Angelou with a bird cage in one hand and a blackbird in another, a dove landing on an open book, as well as an ink quill fashioned to look like a bird.
  — Isabella Meneses, ABC News, 8 May 2021

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024