Example sentences for: raven

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

  • In America, work proceeded space during the 1930s, largely under the direction of Raven McDavid, Hans Kurath, and, later, Harold Allen; more recently, Lee Pedersen and others have investigated American English dialects.

  • Following this line of reasoning, Peter Raven (1972) suggested more than thirty years ago that bird-pollinated flowers were predominantly red because ‘red is the only color of the spectrum that is at once inconspicuous to most insects and also an excellent “signal” of a high caloric reward for birds’.

  • Raven's interpretation of inconspicuousness was soon transformed into invisibility; it was assumed that bees did not visit red flowers because they couldn't detect them (Proctor et al.

  • There is Wolf Lake and White Pigeon in Michigan, Deer Isle in Maine, Elk Run Heights in Iowa, and Deerfield and Raven in Virginia.

  • The chough's cry has been described as kyaw , and the raven's as prruk (suggesting the name of the physically related rook ).


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