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Meanings of mockingbird in inglês

Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds.

Sinônimos
Examples for "mocker"
Examples for "mocker"
1
It was the laugh of the mocker, but he was mocking himself.
The World for Sale, Volume 3.
2
Go-youfollow the mocker, or your hands would not be so dark.
The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish
3
From up the slope came a black-winged mocker's shrill cry of alarm.
Knife of dreams
4
Fairholme, suspecting mockery, frowned, and Miss Wilson looked severely at the mocker.
An Unsocial Socialist
5
Impudent academic mocker, university life has destroyed your last rag of reverence.
Days Off, and Other Digressions
Usage of mockingbird in inglês
1
All Randy heard was a mockingbird tuning up for his morning aria.
Alas, Babylon
2
We have but one real nocturnal songster, and that is the mockingbird.
Locusts and Wild Honey
3
Cautiously, Gordon sought out the blackberry blind, with its irate resident mockingbird.
The Postman
4
The mockingbird sang on, but the garden appeared to darken and grow cold.
Lewis Rand
5
A mockingbird did his best to sing louder than all the other birds.
Dead ever after
6
Somewhere overhead I heard the high, sweet song of a mockingbird.
Flesh and bone: a body farm novel
7
They went well with the silver mockingbird that fastened his cloak.
A Game of Thrones
8
Maybe we got a mockingbird up in one of those trees.
Happiness key
9
That is a mockingbird, the great black capped mockingbird, I think.
By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
10
Overhead, a mockingbird, ever protective of its territory, scolded him.
Immortal wolf
11
A mockingbird sang its schizophrenic melodies from a nearby tree.
Rot & ruin
12
The mockingbird giving forth harsh reproaches in the silence of 2am can be unnerving.
The Irish Times
13
Or, as Harper Lee told us, like killing a mockingbird.
Corduroy mansions
14
Night had vanished on invisible wings and silence broke to the music of a mockingbird.
The Rainbow Trail
15
Out the window, a mockingbird trilled a Saturday-morning air.
Bones of the Lost
16
He lashed out at a pair of humans with mockingbird heads as they darted forward.
The Alchemyst
About this term
Mockingbird through the time
Mockingbird across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common