Example sentences for: nightingale

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

  • Back when Republicans owned the White House and Democrats ran the Senate, Orrin Hatch of Utah was the Florence Nightingale of wounded nominees.

  • From Old English galen to sing comes nightingale , simply the singer by night.

  • The pathetic state of international disaster relief--arguably the United Nations is better at peacekeeping , which isn't saying much--calls to mind Lytton Strachey's description, in Eminent Victorians , of the anarchy with which Florence Nightingale was confronted when she set out to help wounded British soldiers in Crimea.

  • 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.

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


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