How to Use nightingale in a Sentence
nightingale
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The rendition of the nightingale's song alone makes the film worth seeing.
—Phil Hall, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1995
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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
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This, then, is a book that provides food for thought as well for nightingales.
—Simon Barnes, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
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The nightingale gives its lifeblood to create a perfect red rose.
—Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
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At night, frogs and nightingales warble from the riverbanks.
—Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
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Philomela, for instance, is raped by Tereus then turned into a nightingale.
—Jenn Selby, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2020
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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
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His nightingale vocals set a beautiful tone for the night.
—Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 14 May 2022
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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
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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
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But sometimes, the doubling is intriguing; the rat girl, Alysia Chang, returns as the Chinese nightingale.
—Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2017
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As a teenager, his poem about a nightingale was published in John Martin's Magazine.
—Hillel Italie, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2017
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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
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The landowners brought in Tamworth pigs and rare species like nightingales and purple emperor butterflies began to appear.
—Nina Sovich, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
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In Germany, the nightingale, that most melodious nocturnal wonder, was traded by the quart like a commodity.
—Adrian Higgins, sacbee, 8 June 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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