How to Use starling in a Sentence

starling

noun

• The juvenile starlings in the tray looked small, dark and … dull.
  — New York Times, 21 Sep. 2019
• Pliny the Elder once claimed that starlings can be taught to speak lines of Latin and Greek.
  — New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• As Rambo swoops across the vineyard, small flocks of starlings fly out of the way.
  — Jill K. Robinson, SFChronicle.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• When falcons take to the air, sparrows, starlings, and pigeons know to get the flock out of there.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2016
• Alas, what might have worked for starlings did not work for squirrels.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2018
• Starling lined out to shortstop for the second out and Soler hammered the two out grand slam to end the game.
  — Tim Grubbs, NOLA.com, 11 June 2017
• Sixty-eight per cent of starlings have gone, along with a quarter of our moths.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
• The rest of it is berries left in the bramble after a visit from midday starlings.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• That means they can be taken any time, along with house sparrows and starlings.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• But after a while, starlings began learning the lasers’ patterns and no longer feared the lightsaber-like beams.
  — Linda Qiu, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2024
• The birds that feed on Callery pears tend to be non-native species like the European starling, deepening the harm caused by the trees.
  — Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 17 Jan. 2023
• The team found that when the starling flew in a straight path, the predator was best off diving at roughly 150 kilometers per hour.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• For its part, the starling also functions as a visual pun, a play on the name of the Norfolk village of East Harling.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• Mozart was smitten by the song of his pet starling, a theme singularly close...
  — Stuart Isacoff, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2020
• And there was a European starling that seemed to flutter all around, in one moment zipping right by the flame and in the next dashing away.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2017
• After being in the Ebro Delta a couple months, the starlings departed for a park further north.
  — Wired, 20 Nov. 2019
• Falcons are predators that feed on birds such as pigeons and starlings, flying down on their prey at high speed.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
• The owl, not yet fledged, grabbed Bonnie’s shoulder as the starling launched from the top of her head and wildly into the air, only to return to the safety of the teenager’s loose hair.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive.com, 22 June 2019
• Some of the birds included in the drop off include warblers, blackbirds, starlings, robins, and sparrows.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Within sleep, all the hidden things choiring like starlings.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2018
• Art is long, life is short and starlings are immeasurable.
  — Lisa Robertson Anne Boyer, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• Roughly the size of a starling, the little auk is a seabird that feasts almost entirely on tiny zooplankton.
  — Discover Magazine, 24 July 2017
• Three species—starlings, blue jays and gray catbirds—had emerged as the most adept vocal learners, according to a statement.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
• Each starling in a murmuration is thus linked, no matter how far apart.
  — Brandon Keim, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• The starling’s stroke is remarkably similar to that of puffins, murres, and other avian divers.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 5 Jan. 2021
• When a starling swooped in to investigate some seeds on a log, Daisy swatted at the TV, growling in frustration.
  — Megan Reynolds, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2021
• This is not just the story of Mozart and his starling, but a love letter to vulgarity, messiness, caprice and the beauty of things that don’t fit, don’t go where they are supposed to.
  — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
• He's filled the seams of a retaining wall with pieces of floaty pool noodles, so European starlings (an invasive species) can't nest in there.
  — David Gutman, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2020
• The photos of a starling, robin and mockingbird, three everyday sights year round in our area, help illustrate my points.
  — Bill May, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 20 Feb. 2021
• While their slimy coatings deter some would-be-predators, raccoons, opossums, snakes, moles, toads, shrews, turtles, ground beetles, and birds, such as ducks, starlings, and thrushes, devour them with gusto.
  — Paul Richards, Field & Stream, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Sep 2024