How to Use finch in a Sentence

finch

noun
  • She and a male finch perched on the branch and called at me, clearly alarmed.
    Jill Singer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Of those, the robins are the largest, while the juncos, wrens and finches are all about the same size.
    Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
  • The cuckoo finch faces a bit more of a challenge, though.
    Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2012
  • Parrots and finches live in the sunroom of the main house.
    Candace Taylor, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • The zebra finch nailed it while the Ph.D. student couldn’t even come close!
    National Geographic, 15 May 2016
  • This allowed the young finches to learn parts of song which they were not taught by their parents.
    Rory Sullivan, CNN, 8 Oct. 2019
  • Birds such as crows, ravens, finches and magpies act as hosts for the disease.
    Hannah Holzer, sacbee, 25 June 2018
  • What the finches ate required beaks best suited to eat it.
    Jill Kiedaisch, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2018
  • To attract large numbers of gold finch, use Nyger seed in a cage feeder made for it.
    Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 29 Mar. 2020
  • It’s said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that’s only half-true for the Gouldian finch.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
  • Each central bird was flanked on one side by a healthy finch and on the other side by a finch that appeared sick.
    Scientific American, 1 July 2020
  • What does Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony have in common with a finch’s beak?
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Another finch that has not shown up in our area this winter is the purple finch.
    Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 Feb. 2018
  • But how about vampire finches, one of the many finches in the Galápagos?
    James Gorman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2019
  • There is the Cassia crossbill, a finch with a twisty beak found in a single county in Idaho.
    New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • These seed heads are a great source of food for cardinals, finches and chickadees.
    Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Birds fly behind, finches and macaws and vultures and larks, monarchs and thrushes and curlews and crows.
    David Allen, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Those cats hunted finches, scaring the small birds who were unused to the predator.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Most days, a family of cardinals shows up, then the chickadees and finches and a large, loud blue jay.
    Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 21 Apr. 2020
  • Female Cassin's finches are a fairly standard brown-and-white, but the males are blessed with a rosy pink hue and a striking, bright red, tufty crown.
    Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
  • These flittering finches are adaptable and have learned to live in cities, towns and farmland.
    Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Apr. 2024
  • The Gouldian finch, found in northern Australia, looks like a bird painted by Gauguin.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
  • First, Maltese wholesalers placed large orders for finches with the boss of the Italian poaching group.
    Jacopo Benini, National Geographic, 10 May 2019
  • In 1982, a few large ground finches took up residence on the tiny island of Daphne Major in the Galapagos.
    Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2014
  • In our yard in western Alabama were dozens of doves, hundreds of finches, an abundance of blue jays.
    Southern Living, 1 May 2017
  • If your family is looking for a bird that doesn't require much attention, the finch might just be the perfect fit.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Another type of finch – the zebra finch – provided a clue.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
  • The small finches live in the northern coastal foothills of Venezuela, and at least historically in Trinidad, though no birds have been seen in the island country for decades.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The moment of liberation contrasts with the dreadful conditions in which the finch was found.
    Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
  • More than 90% of those losses came from common birds like sparrows, blackbirds, warblers and finches.
    Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2024

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