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.

  • I miss the translator's search for the quiver and the nightingale!

  • Charles Dickens' character, Seth Pecksniff, made his debut about the time the YMCA was founded, only a few years before P.T. Barnum introduced us to the Swedish Nightingale, Jenny Lind.

  • McCain's story has been told well before, namely by Robert Timberg in The Nightingale's Song , a 1995 book about five Naval Academy graduates.

  • (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.)


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