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Example sentences for "migratory"

Lexicographically close words:
migrated; migrates; migrating; migration; migrations; mihi; miht; mihte; mij; mijn
  1. He began to have misgivings as to some queer trick that his migratory Beloved was about to play him, or rather the capricious Divinity behind that ideal lady.

  2. They thought that a certain Old Woman who Never Dies made the crops to grow, and that, living somewhere in the south, she sent the migratory waterfowl in spring as her tokens and representatives.

  3. Another migratory fish was found by Bose very numerous in the fresh waters of Carolina and in ponds liable to become dry in summer.

  4. A migratory species found in the wooded grass lands in October.

  5. The evolution of resident versus migratory habits in birds: some considerations.

  6. Several of the birds that nest in cavities tend to be resident (non-migrating) species (von Haartman 1968) and thus more amenable to local habitat management practices than migratory species.

  7. The usual charge that the Negro is naturally migratory is not true.

  8. The migratory blacks came there at times in such large numbers, as we have observed, that they provoked the hostile classes of whites to employ rash measures to exterminate them.

  9. The migratory habits of the elk would lead them to seek new haunts beyond the protected region, offering every year opportunities for healthy, manly sport to the ambitious hunter during the shooting-season.

  10. While they are migratory in habit, their requirements restrict their favorite haunts to limited and inaccessible areas, and they prefer swampy and boggy regions in the lowlands to the meadows and grassy parks of the uplands.

  11. Migratory birds, like ducks and geese, live for months upon many small lakes dotted over the Park, rearing their young without the least fear of molestation.

  12. What authorizes us to affirm that this was simply the wild bison reclaimed, and why may we not, with equal probability, believe that the migratory prairie-buffalo is the progeny of the domestic animal run wild?

  13. The instinct which guides migratory birds in their course is not in all cases infallible, and it seems to be confounded by changes in the condition of the surface.

  14. In England itself, on the other hand, we have at least one kind of fish which exemplifies the opposite or migratory solution of the dry pond problem, and that is our familiar friend the common eel.

  15. The statement must have been hazarded in ignorance of the peculiar habits of many of the non-migratory birds.

  16. Now, as she sat in the garden, with the image of the migratory birds in her mind, she thought, "The birds do that.

  17. I am personally subject twice a year to the migratory impulse.

  18. Man has, indeed, been always a migratory animal.

  19. Both these differ from the migratory forms by being blacker above and chestnut below, instead of cream colour.

  20. Every year thousands of birds perish in the great migratory flight, others succumb in a cyclone, a fierce tropical storm, a prolonged drought, a severe frost.

  21. This species only wanders occasionally to England, a mere straggler, on migratory flight.

  22. Leaving us in September, little parties of the Yellow Wagtails are formed then, and some districts only make their acquaintance with these birds when on their migratory flight.

  23. This bird takes up its residence with us in Hungary as a visitor only on its way during the long migratory journey, which extends from the northernmost parts of our hemisphere to the Nile.

  24. At the time of migratory flight it likes to rest on vegetable fields and cornfields.

  25. If the Southern European States net and kill Swallows and other small useful birds which are passing through on their migratory flight, the more Northern States naturally suffer loss.

  26. The Red-footed Falcon is only a rare wanderer to the British Islands on its migratory flight, and chiefly to England.

  27. In Scotland generally it is rare, but southwards from the Shetlands, down to the east coast, it occurs at times on migratory flight.

  28. A large number of Samals frequent Tulay and Busbus and often temporarily reside there, but because of their strong migratory habits no estimate has been made of them.

  29. The New England commissioners turned their attention at once to the two most important of their migratory fishes, the salmon and the shad.

  30. It is curious to observe of what migratory stock we have here the sketch.

  31. The Goatsucker is pretty common throughout the whole of England, but more so in the south than the north; it is a migratory bird, arriving towards the middle or end of May and departing in September.

  32. They are all migratory birds, coming to us from Africa and the south of Europe to breed, and returning to those warm climates to pass the winter.

  33. Like the rest of our Swallows, this is a migratory bird, and it remains with us a shorter time than most of the others, generally arriving in May, and departing in August.

  34. The Dotterel, which is a migratory bird, frequents open and exposed situations, wide heaths and barren mountainous districts, where it generally breeds.

  35. The trial of this cause is the presentation of a great social issue, the greatest issue of modern times, namely, what are we going to do today with the migratory and occasional workers?

  36. His offense consists of being a migratory worker.

  37. The story of Fred Savery was typical of the unrecognized empire builders who make up the migratory class.

  38. Cooley dwelt at great length on the constant travel of this witness, a feature incidental to the life of every migratory worker.

  39. To be more specific the outrages at Everett had their roots in the belief that the men who labor, and especially the migratory and the unskilled element, form an inferior caste or class to those who exploit them.

  40. Migratory workers, strikers, and citizens generally, dropped in from time to time to ask about the organization or to purchase papers.

  41. Migratory workers traveling to and from various jobs were taken from the trains, beaten, robbed and deported.

  42. As an example of McRae's methods and as depicting a phase of the life of the migratory worker the story of "Sergeant" John J.

  43. Their social organization, like all their manners and customs, is governed by their wild and migratory life.

  44. They are a migratory race, and generally occupy the south-eastern portion of Oregon.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "migratory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    discursive; drifting; emigrant; errant; flitting; floating; fugitive; meandering; migrant; migratory; nomad; rambling; roaming; roving; shifting; straggling; straying; strolling; transient; transitory; vagabond; vagrant; wandering