Small brownish European songbird.
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Examples for "sparrow "
Examples for "sparrow "
1 He walked toward the water, carrying the glass sparrow and the book.
2 The great hawk smiled proudly and the sparrow was allowed to escape.
3 Frog and sparrow were soon lost to sight, and as quickly forgotten.
4 He makes the little sparrow chirping in the air preach to us.
5 The sparrow was angry because the cat seized it and held it.
1 And Hareton Earnshaw has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock .
2 In fact, this feature of dunnock life reminds me of a number of politicians.
3 Dr Brandt said there were a number of factors that could have led to the dunnock 's decline.
4 One of the birds Kiwis will be keeping an eye out for is the dunnock , or hedge sparrow, which has declined in numbers recently.
5 However, what works for one pair of dunnocks might not work for another.
1 We evaluated whether the social status of males predicted their sperm speed in a wild population of dunnocks ( Prunella modularis ) .
1 As is the youthful cuckoo in the nest of the hedge sparrow , so was Louisa Taylor to the authors of her being.-Mrs.
2 One of the birds Kiwis will be keeping an eye out for is the dunnock, or hedge sparrow , which has declined in numbers recently.
3 I shall live like a hedge sparrow on a twig until the sparrowhawk kills me, and my death will be unnoticed and unmourned by any.
4 With rapid, bold strokes he continued to paint over the writhing canvas, until at last it was a uniform field of shining Hedge Sparrow tint.
5 Following are the Greenfinch 87 per cent, and the Dunnock, which used to be called the Hedge Sparrow with 83 per cent.
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Translations for hedge sparrow