Example sentences for: raven

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

  • Outside the farmyard, but still (usually) within farmland territory, the crow and rook are both named for their harsh call or caw , and though less common, the chough and the raven are similarly named.

  • This explanation for the evolution of red coloration in bird-pollinated flowers differs from the one proposed by Raven (1972) in a key respect.

  • 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.

  • Organized by Raven I. McDavid, Jr., and Audrey R. Duckert, the conference was held June 5-7, 1972, in New York City.


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