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Example sentences for "owlets"

Lexicographically close words:
owing; owl; owld; owle; owlet; owlish; owlishly; owls; own; owne
  1. The owlets through the long blue night Are shouting to each other still: Fond lovers, yet not quite hob nob, They lengthen out the tremulous sob, That echoes far from hill to hill.

  2. He is certainly not quite so abundant out here; the crows and spotted owlets take care of that.

  3. Last year a pair of spotted owlets (Athene brama) secured the prize and reared up a noisy brood of four.

  4. As the shades of night begin to fall family parties of spotted owlets issue from holes in trees or buildings.

  5. Currie, however, asserts that the note in question is that emitted by spotted owlets (Athene brama) when they have young.

  6. As soon as the first touch of the afternoon coolness is felt the clamour acquires fresh vigour and does not cease until the sun has set in a dusty haze, and the spotted owlets have emerged and begun to cackle and call as is their wont.

  7. Needless to state that the tiny spotted owlets make a great noise in May.

  8. If the swarm comes out at dusk, as often happens, bats and spotted owlets join those of the gourmands that are feasting while on the wing.

  9. The noisy spotted owlets (Athene brama) and the rose-ringed paroquets (Palaeornis torquatus) are already the happy possessors of clutches of white eggs hidden away in cavities of decayed trees or buildings.

  10. But then, one would never have young Owlets if one didn't stick to the nest.

  11. Our beautiful eggs will be chilled, and it will be all her fault if we have no Owlets this summer.

  12. But then, I suppose you would never have the Owlets if you didn't stick to the nest.

  13. What if they had already been left too long, and the Owlets within would never hatch?

  14. My heart sinks within me; the memory of my owlets subdues all revengefulness.

  15. But the memory of my owlets hardens my motherly heart; it pulsates with tremendous force; their loss is the world's loss.

  16. The owlets through the long blue night Are shouting to each other still: Fond lovers!

  17. The owlets remained perched in a line on the fence while the old bird in ghostly silence departed into the night in search of food.

  18. The owlets took their beetles with avidity, swallowing them whole and gulping and gagging in the process in a manner indicative of discomfit rather than any satisfaction over the meal.

  19. After the owlets were grown, the whole family disappeared, and lived out of doors the rest of the summer.

  20. The owlets come out of the egg dressed in soft, fluffy down.

  21. The owl mother finds a mouse creeping about in the grass, and teaches the owlets how to pounce upon it, by doing it herself before them.

  22. He is a hearty eater himself, besides feeding a family of five or six little fuzzy white owlets great quantities of food.

  23. When the young owlets were out of the pin-feather stage they began to go out with the old ones.

  24. Far up on her own beam Mrs. Barn Owl tended and fed two young downy owlets faithfully.

  25. He felt impelled to try his skill against the marauder's inherited cunning and suspicion; and he knew that, if he should succeed, there would remain Hushwing's yet fiercer and stronger mate to care for the little owlets in the nest.

  26. Where his brother went, and who the stranger was, Shaggycoat never knew, but the owlets in the top of the tall tree in the deep woods tasted beaver meat and found it good.

  27. There were two impatient owlets in the top of a tall tree, back in the woods who were waiting for their supper of mice and chipmunks or small birds.

  28. But eaglets are very ugly, and owlets very pretty," quoth Janet.

  29. But it soon recommences, and not until the sun has set in a dusty haze, and the harsh clamours of the spotted owlets (Athene brama) are heard, does the noisy assembly of brawlers leave the tree in peace.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "owlets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.