Words similar to sparrow
Example sentences for: sparrow
How can you use “sparrow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Take, for instance, the Rhode Islander who pointed to a sparrow hawk (birders prefer to call it a kestrel) and, perhaps being mindful the early colony's questionable custom of profitable privateering, called it a privateer hawk . Would that be understood in Nebraska?
Like “sparrow grass,” “calvary” for cavalry , one of Mr. Lederer's questionable examples of Slurvian, falls midway between pure mispronunciation and misunderstood expression, perpetuated by a massive misuse.
The eight English proverbs cited above thus have respective equivalents as follows: Plus valet manibus passer quam sub dubio grus It is better to have a sparrow in the hand than a crane in doubt; Sero quam nunquam melius Better late than never, literally Late than never better; Sic fuit, est et erit: similis similem sibi quaerit Thus it was, is and will be; like seeks like for itself: notice the rhyme; Currens per prata non est lepus esca parata A hare running through the meadows is not a ready meal: a nice variation on the bear and his skin; Donati non sunt ora inspicienda caballi Gift horses do not need their mouths looking into: Scopae recentiores semper meliores New brooms are always best; Factum infectum fieri nequit A deed not done cannot happen: a negative equivalent to the English positive What is done cannot be undone as an alternative to the spilt milk; Roma non fuit una die condita (but of course, of course).
This is truly a president whose eye is on the sparrow.
Thus a Dame Jeanne (a big fat-bellied bottle) became a demi-john in English, “God encompasseth us’ became the Goat and Compasses , and the girasole (sunflower) artichoke became the Jerusalem artichoke . The “sparrow grass’ Virginia Howard mentions used to be--and probably still is--common usage in the English Midlands for asparagus .
Loading...