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Meanings of blackbird in English
Usage of blackbird in English
1
Mrs Bridgenorth reads placidly: Collins counts: a blackbird sings in the garden.
2
A blackbird darted out of the hedge and away over the fields.
3
The bird that most impressed me on my walk was the blackbird.
4
Clear was the voice, and as sweet as the April blackbird sings.
5
A blackbird had come into the tree and was singing blithely there.
6
A blackbird blew a tune less of this earth than of fairy-land.
7
Birdman Hugh Robertson on one of our flying early settlers, the blackbird.
8
He is somewhat larger than a blackbird, and pied like a magpie.
9
Hazel expressed things that she knew nothing of, as a blackbird does.
10
He returned to his packing, whistling away as shrill as any blackbird.
11
The crow blackbird has all the natural cunning of his prototype, the crow.
12
I heard a blackbird whistle in a bush against the signal-box.
13
Glickhican saw a blackbird flitting in the shadow of the moon.
14
And when I say local, I mean every blackbird within about three miles.
15
Amid the spears the blackbird, dewy-feathered, croaked in hope of carrion.
16
A blackbird bugled cheerily in the underwood, and Ellington felt a strange thrill.
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Blackbird through the time
Blackbird across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common