How to Use oriole in a Sentence

oriole

noun

• As migrations go, the oriole journey is not a long one.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• On a busy day at the feeders, the orioles would arrive early, sometimes in numbers of five or six.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Sep. 2023
• The stream is home to tree frogs, while orioles, tanagers, crows, hawks and humming birds often fly overhead.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 4 May 2017
• It's not woven like an oriole nest nor held together with mud like a robin's.
  — Jim Williams, Star Tribune, 15 Oct. 2020
• And also discovers the phony oriole perched on the bird feeder.
  — Irv Erdos, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2023
• Within days, the summer hubbub of busy orioles was replaced by the arrival at our seed feeders of a raucous bird with a new name.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• After cooling, add the mixture to clean feeders made for larger oriole beaks.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022
• In fact, seven of the bird species found at the site still live in the Sonora region – including red-winged blackbirds and orchard orioles – but one species is entirely extinct.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2011
• The organization is asking to change the names for roughly 150 birds in North America, including species such as Scott’s oriole and Steller’s jay.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2023
• In Hadley, observers spotted a black-bellied plover, a mourning warbler, two worm-eating warblers, a blue grosbeak, and an orchard oriole.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Aug. 2021
• The best bird feeders are designed to attract specific bird species such as hummingbirds, finches, or orioles.
  — Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
• In the next few days, the brightly colored hooded oriole males will begin straggling into San Diego County from their winter homes in Mexico.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2021
• This was the first oriole of the season and as far as I was concerned, his mission was complete, arriving here last week after traveling as much as 2,000 miles from his winter home in Mexico.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• At the Fannie Stebbins Refuge in Longmeadow, reports included a least bittern and an orchard oriole.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2021
• Remember, the hummingbirds will use the oriole feeders as well, so after the orioles depart, keep them filled for the tiny buzzbirds, especially as cold weather arrives.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 2023
• Maryland falls within the orioles’ breeding ground, which stretches across eastern and central North America.
  — The New York Times Elaine Chen Emily Anthes, New York Times, 18 May 2023
• This feature also allows the colorful vittles to be seen by orioles passing overhead.
  — Kristen (kj) Callihan, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Mar. 2023
• At the end of the summer, Southern California waves goodbye to migrating cliff swallows, hooded orioles, and black-headed grosbeaks.
  — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2023
• The birders’ count after an hour that day, submitted to a Cornell University survey app, included 24 species, among them a Bullock’s oriole.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• Ernie Cowan’s Outdoors column Show more sharing options My heart soared as the neon-yellow and jet black male hooded oriole fluttered into the nectar feeder dangling not more than 3 feet away just outside the window.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Mealworm seedcake, for example, is designed to attract bluebirds, orioles, wrens, jays, chickadees and titmice.
  — Kara Carlson, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
• Another good example was the subject of my recent column talking about the disappearance of hummingbirds and orioles.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2023
• Behind the birdhouse the bright red blossoms of a bottlebrush tree were attracting Anna’s hummingbirds, while a hooded oriole was sewing an elaborate hanging basket nest into the underside of a broad palm frond.
  — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 July 2017
• Sometimes, writes Harrison in the journal Social History of Medicine, medical manuals suggested they be worn around the neck like a talisman, as in one cure that called for a golden oriole songbird to be strapped around a sickly horse.
  — John Last, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2022
• Migration is often triggered by the availability of food, and drought conditions may have impacted the oriole’s food sources here, thus triggering a slightly earlier departure.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2021
• Another orchard oriole also sighted at Sally Milligan Park in Beverly.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024