Example sentences for: nightingale

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

  • The delightfully vivid bird, with its blend of comedy and pathos, may be Hardy's bow of his head toward such Romantic birds as the nightingale heard by John Keats in his great "Ode to a Nightingale" much earlier in the century.

  • (Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). However, some critics dismiss the project as a corny, nostalgia-heavy tourist trap, "an Elizabethan theme park" (Roy Hattersley, the Guardian ). (Click here for the Globe's site.)

  • You can buy a kettle whose whistle is in the shape of a brass-plated nightingale or a steam-spewing dragon.

  • Why not choose the one that is closest to the nightingale?

  • asks Keats at the end of "Ode to a Nightingale."


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