How to Use nightingale in a Sentence

nightingale

noun

• The rendition of the nightingale's song alone makes the film worth seeing.
  — Phil Hall, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1995
• The nightingale sang just before midnight, as if it were perched in the boughs of the dripping tree in the car park.
  — Deborah Levy, The Cut, 1 July 2018
• This, then, is a book that provides food for thought as well for nightingales.
  — Simon Barnes, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• The nightingale gives its lifeblood to create a perfect red rose.
  — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
• At night, frogs and nightingales warble from the riverbanks.
  — Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
• Philomela, for instance, is raped by Tereus then turned into a nightingale.
  — Jenn Selby, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• Some of the works are descriptive, like a poem denoting the changing of the seasons or the song of a nightingale.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• For her pains, the gods transmuted her into a nightingale.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• His nightingale vocals set a beautiful tone for the night.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 14 May 2022
• Starting in May, 1924, the BBC played a nightingale’s song every spring for almost twenty years.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• What to my human eye is a place of natural beauty is, for a nightingale, something like a desert.
  — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 16 May 2017
• Tom Price: My king, please glance into the doorway, where my strong son has brought you a nightingale made entirely of gold and silver.
  — Alexandra Petri, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• But sometimes, the doubling is intriguing; the rat girl, Alysia Chang, returns as the Chinese nightingale.
  — Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2017
• When Wilbur was a teenager, his first poem, about a nightingale, was published in a magazine.
  — Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2017
• With the estate’s dairy herd and tractors sold, the sound of diesel engines and milking machines quickly gave way to the calls of turtle doves, nightingales, and woodlarks.
  — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
• The Yamaguchis have no plans to move from their small craft brewery, Niwa No Uguisu, named after the nightingales that once flitted about the courtyard.
  — Nancy Matsumoto, WSJ, 13 Sep. 2017
• The constant intermingling of the BBC’s journalists and the country’s political class means that bust-ups are as predictable as the nightingale in spring.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• As a teenager, his poem about a nightingale was published in John Martin's Magazine.
  — Hillel Italie, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• For example, Ludwig van Beethoven’s 6th Symphony simulates a cuckoo with a clarinet, a nightingale with a flute, and a quail with an oboe.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 June 2022
• There are hummingbirds, doves, and nightingales in the neighborhood’s little courtyards and gardens.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• The landowners brought in Tamworth pigs and rare species like nightingales and purple emperor butterflies began to appear.
  — Nina Sovich, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
• In Germany, the nightingale, that most melodious nocturnal wonder, was traded by the quart like a commodity.
  — Adrian Higgins, sacbee, 8 June 2018
• Franciosi, whose character is nicknamed the nightingale for her singing voice, worked with director Kent for an unusually lengthy 10-week rehearsal period prior to filming.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2019
• Saya particularly misses hearing her mother’s bedtime stories, especially her Haitian tale about a nightingale who keeps children safe.
  — Wendy Dunn, star-telegram, 20 Oct. 2017
• Before this study, scientists only knew that humans and nightingale thrushes follow categorical rhythms, reports Jason Bittel for National Geographic.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
• Rothenberg’s nightingale investigations lead him into extended conversations and collaborations with both scientists and musicians, and into recurring after-hours duets with the nightingales of Berlin’s Treptower Park.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024