How to Use canary in a Sentence

canary

noun

• Is this the end of the road or is this the canary in the coal mine?
  — Megan Ditrolio, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• The Minecraft servers were the proverbial canary in the coal mine.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Dec. 2021
• Bald eagles serve as a sort of canary in the coal mine for the health of the Great Lakes.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2020
• Is Twitter once again the blue canary in the coal mine?
  — Alissa Walker, Curbed, 29 July 2021
• In that way, lumber could once again be the canary in the coal mine.
  — Fortune, 2 Dec. 2021
• In the world of oceans, Hammerschlag says sharks are the canary in the coal mine.
  — Louise Schiavone, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• This is the eternal test of mankind, and Jews are once more canaries in the coal mine.
  — Dani Dayan, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2018
• Like the silence of the canary in a coal mine, the death of sea corals is a heartrending metaphor.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 13 May 2022
• The canary in the coal mine right now is the mail ballot voters.
  — ABC News, 23 Jan. 2022
• On the other hand, our world is not built for 8-ft.-tall canaries.
  — Lily Rothman, Time, 7 Nov. 2019
• Black folks have always been the canary in the coal mine in this nation.
  — Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 21 Apr. 2022
• Restaurants like Taco Boy are the canary in the coal mine of local economies.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2023
• Charity, then, might be seen as the canary in the coal mine.
  — Michael Tanner, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
• Some in Syria say their country was the canary in the coalmine that the world chose to ignore.
  — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
• Harsin has been gasping for air in the SEC ever since he was hired, and Greene is the canary in the coal mine.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2022
• Maybe the lack of buy-in by Jarron Cumberland last year was the canary in the coal mine.
  — Jay Brinker, The Enquirer, 9 Apr. 2021
• The coal-mine canary sang loudly when there was no risk or threat.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2017
• As a measure of the democratic process, the press briefing can act as the canary in the coal mine.
  — Erin Blakemore, Longreads, 1 July 2017
• Dallas, Denver and Houston are the canaries in the coal mine.
  — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• Watch that area of your garden for the first plant to have droopy leaves (that’s the canary) and check your calendar.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
• Wayfair has been called the canary in the coalmine of the home furnishings market.
  — Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• The benthic forams were the canary in the coal mine, and so too may be the sharks 19 million years ago, Sibert says.
  — Connor Lynch, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
• This is the canary in the coal mine saying, there's a big fire here and there's an even bigger one coming.
  — ABC News, 23 Jan. 2022
• Have the wounds of the past several years left the rest of us as mentally gouged as our canary?
  — Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2022
• Water is the canary in the coal mine, in that a small amount of climate change can have a big amount of water impact.
  — Jon Chorley, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
• Like the canary in the coal mine, African American Males are singing to our nation and world for that matter.
  — Indianapolis Star, The Indianapolis Star, 17 June 2020
• Last year's Emmys turned out to be the canary in the coalmine for a dismal, dizzying drop in award-show ratings.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 13 July 2021
• Maybe my left eye was an early warning system, like a canary in the coal mine.
  — Liane Kupferberg Carter, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The birds that visitors witness being banded might one day prove to be the canaries in the coal mine.
  — Maria Finn, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2018
• One played a recording of a canary—a large, threatening species.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024