How to Use thrush in a Sentence

thrush

noun
  • Someday Freya may stroll her child down the road telling the stories of our deer and porcupines, the nests and the thrush.
    Todd R. Nelson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Herbs to start from seed: Sorrel Geese, seagulls, thrushes: This is the week the geese come back.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Sightings of seagulls have been made as well as thrushes and robins.
    Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Here are some natural remedies that may be used to treat thrush.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 28 June 2023
  • Birds fly behind, finches and macaws and vultures and larks, monarchs and thrushes and curlews and crows.
    David Allen, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The group froze at every chirp of a thrush or chaffinch, one hand holding the binoculars, the other a tombstone for balance.
    Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The species with the worst impacts decreased by roughly twice that, including the riverbank warbler, dusky-throated Antshrike, and the white-necked thrush.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Jan. 2022
  • An uncontrolled growth of cells in your mouth may produce white patches on your tongue that look similar to oral thrush.
    Amanda Gardner, Health, 21 Jan. 2024
  • But be careful: if left untreated, the infection could worsen and spread to the surrounding skin or cause oral thrush.
    Isadora Baum, Men's Health, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Across the country, efforts have sprung up to encourage homeowners to do their part to prevent the thump of a warbler or thrush against their windows.
    Richard Mertens, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Nov. 2022
  • The bird is a blue-gray and yellow thrush sized bird with a chirp that sounds similar to a cricket. Costa Rica and Panama are home to over 50 species of hummingbirds.
    Sandra MacGregor, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • One of the most common migrants recorded was the gray-cheeked thrush, a shy bird of the northern boreal forest that is rarely seen in the northeast U.S. during fall migration.
    Tom Langen, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2022
  • She has been tested for strep and flu, treated for thrush and checked for less common ailments that might cause this cluster of symptoms, but all have come back negative.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 June 2020
  • The afternoon sun slants through the glass, throwing shadows on a small twisted-wire Tour Eiffel at his elbow, and in the greenery below, as if on cue, a thrush begins its song.
    Nancy Hass Ilyes Griyeb, New York Times, 9 May 2023
  • Wood thrushes dueled with their melodious birdsong across the bog, sounding like an entire bird choir.
    Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
  • Prior to its emergence in 2009, fungi in the genus Candida were best known for causing benign cases of thrush, a white overgrowth on the tongue or genitals.
    Sophie Cousins, National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2020
  • This story has been corrected to show that South Carolina shifted in 1948 from the mockingbird to the Carolina wren, not the Carolina thrush.
    Curt Anderson, ajc, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Skeen focused on four common species of songbirds called thrushes, but there are dozens of species found throughout Chicago after crashing into the city’s buildings.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The holiday weekend traffic on Interstate 5 had slowed to a crawl, the thrush of cars inching toward SeaTac airport moving at a painfully slow pace.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Some carry them in their pockets or a paper bag, and the rehab center uses soft laundry baskets to house the birds, such as the recovering Swainson’s thrush pictured above.
    National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Losing about 40 pounds due to nausea and thrush, Alfa could barely recognize herself and avoided FaceTiming her friends and boyfriend.
    Essence, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The study focused on birds that move at night, as most migrators do, particularly perching birds such as warblers, thrushes and sparrows.
    Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Oral candidiasis—sometimes more commonly known as oral thrush—is a fungal infection that occurs in the mouth, says Dr. Nyugen.
    Lauren Krouse, Health.com, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Bacteria in your body keep it in check, but if the system is off-balance, the yeast will overgrow and turn into a vaginal yeast infection, diaper rash, thrush or another condition.
    Jen Christensen, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • In North Scituate, a rufous hummingbird and a Bicknell’s thrush.
    Isabela Rocha, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Candida albicans causes oral thrush and vaginal yeast infections, and can also infect the blood, heart and other internal organs.
    Dominique Mosbergen, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2022
  • In the cold, inhospitable countryside, against a backdrop of political instability in Europe, a solitary thrush is singing.
    Ben Santer, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Baking soda Diluted baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) may also combat the symptoms of thrush.
    Nicole Harris, Parents, 28 June 2023
  • Heckscher, a professor at Delaware State University, is an ornithologist who studies thrushes, sparrows and other migrating songbirds.
    Madeline Bodin, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 May 2023
  • Someday Freya may stroll her child down the road telling the stories of our deer and porcupines, the nests and the thrush.
    Todd R. Nelson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2020

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