Small olive-colored woodland flycatchers of eastern North America.
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Examples for "peewee "
1 A very large marble is a bumbo and a very small one a peewee .
2 Four times he drove the peewee farther than Charles did.
3 But by some accident of eye and timing he beat his brother at peewee .
4 When I was a kid, I was the only girl on the local peewee football team.
5 There is more good sportsmanship in this series than you'll find on a half-dozen peewee soccer fields.
1 If Mag had the sense of a pewee , she'd told me long ago.
2 The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould.
3 Of the smaller birds, the nuthatch, the wood and hermit thrush, whippoorwill, woodpeckers, wood - pewee , and others.
4 See that sombre, ashen-colored pewee on yonder branch.
5 The green-crested pewee builds its nest in many instances wholly of the blossoms of the white oak.
1 No; it was flying after a peewit , and the dog caught it.
2 He could imagine it uttering the vibrant, plaintive cry of a peewit .
3 As he went the cry of a peewit rose in the morning air
4 It was a haunt of the cuckoo and peewit , the bunting and carrion crow.
5 Nay, it is my man Dick, calling like a peewit .
1 Remember the pewit call if we lose sight of each other.
2 She puckered her lips and gave the pewit call, but there was no answer.
3 If you see a man, keep still in your places and give the pewit call.
4 I, too, heard the pewit 's plaint in my childhood and caught the sun-fish in the brook.
5 He gave the pewit 's call and waited.
1 The wood pewee builds an exquisite nest, shaped and finished as if cast in a mould.
2 Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic not of the wood pewee .
3 Everywhere in these solitudes I am greeted with the pensive, almost pathetic note of the wood pewee .
4 The wood pewee , the prevailing species in this locality, arrests your attention by his sweet, pathetic cry.
5 It is only the oriole and the wood pewee that, as a rule, go higher than this.
6 But the wood pewee is an exception.
7 The wood pewee builds a neat, compact, socket-shaped nest of moss and lichens on a horizontal branch.
8 I noted but one nest of the wood pewee , and that, too, like so many other nests, failed of issue.
9 The note of the wood pewee is a human sigh; the chickadee has a call full of unspeakable tenderness and fidelity.
10 The common or wood pewee excites the most pleasant emotions, both on account of its plaintive note and its exquisite mossy nest.
11 The wood pewees show that devotion to each other and to their home, characteristic of their family.
12 "Then the Wood Pewee builds late, like the Cedar Waxwing and Goldfinch?"
13 "If you please," Peter inquired politely, "why do folks call you Wood Pewee ? "
14 See also several of the Swallows; the Kingbird, the Phoebe, the Wood Pewee and other Flycatchers; the Chimney Swift; and the Chewink.
15 "You haven't given us any table for the Wood Pewee , " said Dodo, who always took great pleasure in writing in her little book.
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