How to Use vesper in a Sentence
vesper
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Vespertilian refers to bats, which come out at dusk, when the evening star (Vesperus) appears and when monks say their evening prayers (vespers).
—Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2020
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Full of quotations from his previous works, and from the Russian Orthodox vespers, the score suggests a return to Russia and to the past.
—Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 22 May 2017
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The Everetts painted the exterior white with trim in teal, gray and vesper violet.
—Patti Restivo, Howard County Times, 1 June 2018
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Throat and fecal swabs were collected from six different species of horseshoe and vesper bats.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
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Every evening at vespers, a different image of the incarnation is invoked.
—Patrick Neas, kansascity, 10 Dec. 2017
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Other highlights included a prairie warbler, a common yellowthroat, a rusty blackbird, and 3 yellow-bellied sapsuckers in Wellfleet, and a vesper sparrow in Truro.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
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The prairie is home to rare grassland bird species including bobolinks, meadowlarks, dickcissels and vesper sparrows — all species of special concern in Wisconsin; and upland sandpipers, a state threatened species.
—Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2021
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Vespertilian refers to bats, which come out at dusk, when the evening star (Vesperus) appears and when monks say their evening prayers (vespers).
—Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2020
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Full of quotations from his previous works, and from the Russian Orthodox vespers, the score suggests a return to Russia and to the past.
—Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times, 22 May 2017
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The Everetts painted the exterior white with trim in teal, gray and vesper violet.
—Patti Restivo, Howard County Times, 1 June 2018
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Throat and fecal swabs were collected from six different species of horseshoe and vesper bats.
—Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2021
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Every evening at vespers, a different image of the incarnation is invoked.
—Patrick Neas, kansascity, 10 Dec. 2017
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Other highlights included a prairie warbler, a common yellowthroat, a rusty blackbird, and 3 yellow-bellied sapsuckers in Wellfleet, and a vesper sparrow in Truro.
—BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
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The prairie is home to rare grassland bird species including bobolinks, meadowlarks, dickcissels and vesper sparrows — all species of special concern in Wisconsin; and upland sandpipers, a state threatened species.
—Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2021
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