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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024