How to Use house sparrow in a Sentence

house sparrow

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• But less than 10 miles to the northeast, in the wealthy city of San Marino, house sparrows were nowhere to be heard.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• The common house sparrow was at the top of the list for losses, as were many other sparrows.
  — Christina Larson, The Denver Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• That means they can be taken any time, along with house sparrows and starlings.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• And house sparrows don’t care if a bluebird is already living in there.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 2 May 2018
• Usually our yard is overrun with house sparrows in the spring and summer but not this year.
  — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 29 Sep. 2019
• The researchers spotted a house sparrow and pulled binoculars to their eyes.
  — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• House Sparrow Immigrants to North America, house sparrows are thought to have spread across the country with the help of freight trains.
  — John Heasly, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
• For most of the early morning the train platform remained empty and quiet, except for the chirping of house sparrows.
  — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 7 May 2020
• Next, a child spotted a house sparrow lying dead on the other side of the fence, and this attracted far more attention than the live house sparrows in the nearby tree.
  — Guest, Discover Magazine, 9 Jan. 2015
• Who isn’t inspired to gluttony by seeing an English house sparrow surrounded by a gold mine’s worth of greasy fries?
  — New York Times, 22 Nov. 2019
• For the sparrows study, Andrew and his team captured and measured about 40 adult house sparrows at each of 30 locations across Australia and New Zealand.
  — Marlene Cimons, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
• But the same cicada event in the same woods that year did not correspond with any difference in the average number of eggs per house sparrow nest, compared with the prior and subsequent years.
  — Jillian Mock, Scientific American, 9 Apr. 2021
• But house sparrow and European starling threats remain.
  — Barbara Boyer, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• The house sparrow is the most abundant bird in the world, according to National Geographic, with a population of 1.6 billion.
  — Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2022
• The American robin is among a handful of wildlife species, including the house sparrow, gray squirrel, cottontail rabbit and coyote, able to thrive in a variety of habitats.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• That rank not only reflects the relationship of frequent combatant pairs such as the house sparrow and the blue jay, but also accurately predicts which bird will dominate when two distant species meet for the first time.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• The department plans a series of pond-to-table videos leading up to the Institute’s Invasive Species Cook-off in 2021 (remember reading here several years ago about my daughter’s popcorn house sparrow?).
  — Bill Monroe, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2020
• But the group has recently launched an aggressive campaign against a postdoc at Yale University studying stress in wild house sparrows who is still near the beginning of her scientific career.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 15 Sep. 2017
• Lapsansky and his colleagues have also found another nonswimming species, the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), swims just as well as starlings.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 5 Jan. 2021
• Should house sparrows and European starlings — both imported from England by misguided humans — suffer?
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 6 May 2018
• Turns out, there’s at least one squirrel in my neighborhood that either has a very high pain tolerance or, quite possibly, is a biologically unanticipated hybrid between a house sparrow and a Kentucky squirrel!
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 12 Jan. 2024
• The birds most commonly affected include the American robin, blue jay, common grackle, yellowtail flicker, European starling, northern cardinal, house finch, house sparrow, Eastern bluebird, red-bellied woodpecker, and Carolina wren.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 8 July 2021
• The songbirds most commonly affected include the American robin, blue jay, common grackle, yellowtail flicker, European starling, northern cardinal, house finch, house sparrow, Eastern bluebird, red-bellied woodpecker, and Carolina wren.
  — courant.com, 10 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024