Example sentences for: birdcage

How can you use “birdcage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The birdcage above the contented mother's head may well symbolize, Sutton suggests, the "sweet slavery of marital love" (another proverb from Cats).

  • From the bank, head for Queen Street, which leads north from the Birdcage, a metal cage once used by police officers to direct the traffic that regularly comes to a halt on Front Street.

  • This may be Bethlehem, but it's still The Birdcage .

  • In the 1994 Disney film, the actor Nathan Lane supplied the voice of Timon in much the same style as his flamboyantly gay character in The Birdcage . When I saw the Broadway version of the musical, the audience roared at Timon's even more exaggerated gay mannerisms.

  • Kureishi could have spun a whole film (and a more commercial one) out of this Birdcage opening, but he has already mined that vein in his hilarious novel The Buddha of Suburbia (1990).


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