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Example sentences for: cuckoo
How can you use “cuckoo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
The plot rips off the familiar one-on-one mind games of The Silence of the Lambs and adds up to nothing more than "a greatest-hits collection of plot devices and emotional cues from such films as Gorillas in the Mist and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest " (John Anderson, the Los Angeles Times ). (Click here to watch the trailer, and for David Edelstein's review in
Run up to seven and you'll find that every other number has better films-- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Two for the Road , Three Days of the Condor (and Three Brave Men , based on a book about my Uncle Abe, who's played by Ernest Borgnine--straight stuff--you can imagine how we felt), Four Feathers , Five Easy Pieces , and--no kidding, this is as good as it gets-- Six Lessons From Madame La Zonga , with Lupe Velez and Leon Errol.
A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .
1 If you ever do something that's listed in the DSM as a symptom, it means psychiatrists think you're cuckoo.
Comments like “The cuckoo was so named for the one-note song it repeats over and over” came from someone who has never heard the bird's disyllabic call.
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