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Meanings of nighthawk in English
Spanish
nighthawk 
1919 Fighter aircraft family by Nieuport & General Aircraft.
Related terms
Portuguese
noctâmbulo Spanish
chotacabras yanqui Usage of nighthawk in English
1
The flight of the nighthawk is free and graceful in the extreme.
2
Clearly it came through the still air-theeerie hoot of a nighthawk.
3
A nighthawk, wheeling overhead through the rain, sent down her discordant cry.
4
Through all the turmoil the nighthawk slept peacefully in the shade of a sage-clump.
5
The black bat and the darting nighthawk were a-wing, grim spectres of the dusk.
6
Another traveler-thespotted-wingednighthawk-wasalso roughly used by the storm.
7
Susan kept her ears pitched for the nighthawk's piercing two-note whistle, and heard nothing.
8
He jumped convulsively at a nighthawk's reedy cry, then sagged against a tree, shaking.
9
A nighthawk flew by, identified by its nasal peent.
10
The remuda trailed behind the wagon under the combined supervision of the nighthawk and the wrangler.
11
WHIRR, almost into her face, went a nighthawk stretched along a limb for its daytime nap.
12
As twilight deepened, the low dart of a nighthawk over the field would catch my eye.
13
The nighthawk opens its beak as it flies through clouds of insects, scooping them into its enormous mouth.
14
The nighthawk and whippoorwill are its relatives, and it resembles them not a little, especially in its nocturnal habits.
15
A few bats were wavering in air hunting insects, and occasionally an owl or a nighthawk crossed the lake.
16
The whistle of the nighthawk.
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Translations for nighthawk
Russian
Portuguese
Nighthawk through the time