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Example sentences for: sparrow
How can you use “sparrow” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
To hear the poet read "Brave Sparrow," click .
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 .
The sparrow does not itself have an imitative name, although it was formerly nicknamed Philip , for its rapid twittering and chirping notes.
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?
This is truly a president whose eye is on the sparrow.