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Example sentences for "single bird"

  • All the Fulmars drifted to and fro in silence; not a single bird uttered a cry.

  • Not a single bird, so far as I could ascertain, uttered a note, but the whirring noise of the millions of rapidly beating wings sounded like the distant rush of wind!

  • During the breeding season, an observer may wander for hours up and down the haunts of this Duck without seeing a single bird.

  • Nichols, in his notes, calls the "flushing note of a single bird a fine chit-l-it.

  • We have not heard a single bird-note since leaving the North.

  • It comes to us as a surprise, for the forest has been wrapped in a deep silence; its slumberous shade has not been broken by a single bird-note; all animal life is quiescent.

  • Not infrequently I have seen a single bird come to the hill, flying in from the north across Lexington Common, and join others there.

  • The last one, a single bird, was seen September 19.

  • Let me here call attention to the fact that up to now not a single bird out of all those thousands had left the rookery once it had entered it.

  • On October 23 I went to the place where the stream of arrivals was coming up the beach, and presently followed a single bird, which I afterwards found to be a cock, to see what it was going to do.

  • Although there were several open water holes against bergs frozen into the sea-ice some half mile or so away, not a single bird attempted to get food.

  • A single bird on Walden's Ridge, May 12, in free song.

  • But no matter how I strained my eyes I could not distinguish a single bird.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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