How to Use mockingbird in a Sentence

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• Aside from the dead mockingbird and the stories of the Navy, we’re left to fill in the gaps of Lucky’s life.
  — Christian Lorentzen, New Republic, 29 Sep. 2017
• The healthy fledglings were removed and left on the lawn so that mockingbirds seen in the area could care for them.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• Since 1927, the northern mockingbird has been classified as the state bird.
  — Sylvia Gurinsky, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• The more tunes the mockingbird can work into his serenade, the better.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
• The short, river-hugging trail leads you beneath tall oaks; birds to be seen include towhee and mockingbird.
  — Peter Fish, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Feb. 2018
• Over half of the mockingbird's songs are mimicry, and the species boasts an impressive repertoire comprised of hundreds of types of phrases.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 23 July 2021
• Atticus Finch famously once said that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
  — Vulture, 29 July 2022
• And Northern mockingbirds are accomplished singers in their own right.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 22 June 2017
• After nearly a century on its lofty perch, the northern mockingbird may be singing its last melodies as the state bird of Florida.
  — Curt Anderson, ajc, 5 Nov. 2021
• On a spring morning in her home near Nashville, Amanda Shires is competing with a mockingbird.
  — Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 30 June 2023
• Northern mockingbirds have started singing in earnest, along with Eastern towhees.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 16 Feb. 2018
• To date, Creager’s rescues have included a cardinal, a wren, a towhee and a mockingbird.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 23 Sep. 2020
• Curiously, the weavers won’t aggressively take to the air and flock to scare away their enemies, as crows or mockingbirds do.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2014
• The mockingbird can sing up to 200 different tunes and mimic artificial sounds like car alarms.
  — Curt Anderson, ajc, 5 Nov. 2021
• The mockingbird triggers my impulse to respond with a standing ovation.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
• This spring, baby birds (starting with starlings and sparrows and then songbirds such as robins, blue jays, cardinals and mockingbirds) will hatch.
  — Kitson Jazynka, chicagotribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• To ensure berries, plant male and female plants in proximity; the fruit feeds robins, bluebirds and mockingbirds well into winter.
  — Bart Ziegler, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
• For instance, a mockingbird may begin by mimicking the call of a Northern flicker or a Carolina wren, and then take it up a few notes for a non-mimetic version of that call.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 23 July 2021
• Responding to a report, an officer removed two mockingbirds that were trapped in a window well.
  — Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• One reason is that the northern mockingbird is the state bird of several other states, and legislators want a bird that’s uniquely of Florida.
  — Sylvia Gurinsky, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Nov. 2021
• The mid to large versions of pomegranate are popular nesting sites for cardinals and mockingbirds.
  — Calvin Finch, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Apr. 2023
• The illustrious tradition of keeping pets in the White House dates back to Thomas Jefferson, who kept a mockingbird and a couple of bear cubs during his presidency.
  — Betsy Klein, CNN, 21 Oct. 2017
• The scientists also reversed the scenario, dropping host eggs from wrens, mockingbirds, and blackbirds onto cowbird eggs.
  — Erica Tennenhouse, Science | AAAS, 8 May 2018
• Alberto Lau launched a more scientific effort to quiet the mockingbird.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2021
• The students pointed out that Florida is the only state that does not have an official state bird, even though many people incorrectly believe the mockingbird has that designation.
  — Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• The space is done up like a contemporary country kitchen, more upmarket than down-home, with white wainscoting, curtains striped like mattress ticking and the mockingbird logo branded on each polished plywood table.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• Though Thomas Jefferson preferred mockingbirds to canines, the posh Jefferson hotel, themed after America’s third president, caters to the latter.
  — Paul Rubio, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2019
• Encounter northern mockingbirds, indigo buntings, and yellow-rumped warblers at Pickering Creek Audubon Center (pickeringcreek.audubon.org/), a 400-acre sanctuary of trails teeming with coastal wildlife habitats.
  — Stephanie Citron, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2018
• An effort is taking flight to replace the far-ranging musical mockingbird with a bird that is more identifiable as distinctly Floridian.
  — Curt Anderson, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Nov. 2021
• In fact, pokeweed is an important food source for myriad songbirds, including cardinals, catbirds and mockingbirds.
  — Dave Taft, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 26 Jul 2024