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Example sentences for "paroquets"

Lexicographically close words:
paroling; parolis; parolle; paronomasia; paroquet; parotid; parotitis; parousia; paroxysm; paroxysmal
  1. The kessi-kessi paroquets were in great abundance; and the fine scarlet ara innumerable in the coucourito trees at a distance from the river's bank.

  2. Parrots and paroquets are very numerous here, and of many different kinds.

  3. It is from this country that those beautiful paroquets named kessi-kessi are procured.

  4. In the description in a former chapter of our old peach trees in their blossoming time I mentioned the paroquets which occasionally visited us but had their breeding-place some distance away.

  5. I was a worshipper of trees at this season, and I remember my shocked and indignant feeling when one day a flock of green paroquets came screaming down and alighted on one of the trees near me.

  6. My visits were to the paroquets exclusively.

  7. The forest was noisy with the cry of birds, and flocks of shrill-voiced paroquets raised an uproar in the tallest trees.

  8. As he reclined there, busied with these thoughts, two vivid little paroquets alighted near him, to quarrel noisily, then make up and kiss each other like any pair of lovers.

  9. That night we slept for the last time under the somber pines and listened to the whip-poor-wills, for the next night we had descended seven thousand feet, and were among the oranges and palms, the paroquets and humming birds.

  10. Flitting around among them were brilliantly colored paroquets and many other birds with gay plumage.

  11. Gayly colored paroquets and strange tropical birds went flitting past us and filled the air with their noisy calls and cries.

  12. The piercing cries of these paroquets contrasted singularly with the whistling of the birds of prey.

  13. We saw also a flock of paroquets pursued by little goshawks without crests.

  14. I procured a tame pair of this lovely breed of paroquets from the Guatos.

  15. On the bank, right in front of where we lay, was a gnarled old tree, which seemed to be the home, or parliament house, of all the paroquets in the neighborhood.

  16. At other times large hailstones, for which the country is noted, have destroyed everything, or tens of thousands of green paroquets have done their destructive work.

  17. The walls are covered with an Oriental paper patterned with marvelous blue and green birds, birds of paradise and paroquets perched on flowering branches.

  18. The walls are hung with a daringly gorgeous paper covered with birds--birds of paradise and paroquets perched on flowery tropical branches.

  19. 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.

  20. Flocks of emerald paroquets fly past--as swift as arrows shot from bows--seeking grain or fruit.

  21. About the middle of April he noticed a pair of paroquets nesting in a hole in a tree.

  22. Jacques Paganel, always demonstrative, gave such deep sighs of satisfaction that the paroquets and cockatoos flew out in alarm, making a deafening chorus of noisy chatter.

  23. It has been stated that paroquets have been found hibernating in hollow trees in the coldest winters.

  24. It is a great pity, but we paroquets are fast being exterminated.

  25. Those paroquets could tell if they would; but they never will.

  26. The still air was lightly stirred now and then by rushing wings, as the myriad paroquets settled among the shadowy branches.

  27. From this country are procured those beautiful paroquets named Kessikessi.

  28. Being a perfectly inoffensive bird, he objected to noise, and for that reason he eschewed the company of the kakas and paroquets who ranged the forest in flocks, and spoilt all quietude by quarrelling and screeching in the tree-tops.

  29. One Tamil woman was noticed with a bevy of paroquets for sale, so tame that they crept about her head, arms, and shoulders, being occasionally treated to some favorite tidbit from her lips.

  30. Paroquets in mottled green, practicing their dainty ways, present themselves in flocks, lighting upon the nearest bushes and branches with a winning fearlessness and confidence.

  31. Small green paroquets flew about and filled the air with their not altogether pleasant voices.

  32. A hundred times a day flocks of small paroquets fly screaming over our heads and settle behind the trees.

  33. A flock of paroquets were screaming like little green demons just above him, and several alligators gave him a passing glance as they floundered heavily in the water below; but the red man cared not for such trifles.

  34. Enormous butterflies, with wings of deep metallic blue, shot past or hovered in the air like gleams of light; and green paroquets swooped from tree to tree and chattered joyfully over their morning meal.

  35. The sporting odds were given and taken on these exciting chances; and the fluttering and screaming paroquets that crowded the Railway Stations, in spite of their gay feathers, bore no little resemblance to carrion-feeding birds of prey.

  36. Society had descended like a flock of chattering, gaudily-plumaged paroquets upon the spot where new and exciting sensations were to be had.

  37. Another flock of paroquets were seen to-day.

  38. A flock of paroquets flew over our {91} heads, uttering their loud note, with their usual loquacity.

  39. We finished our meal, and when the sun was setting we saw the paroquets fly by in couples, and humming-birds flitting about among the bushes; suddenly a formidable roaring made us all tremble.

  40. The eastern sky was beginning to grow pale, and as we were supping we saw the paroquets in couples flying over our heads towards the forest.


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