Example sentences for: thrush

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

  • At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overheadIn a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited;An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small In blast-beruffled plume,Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.

  • To hear Robert Pinsky read "The Darkling Thrush," click .

  • to sing like the thrush from the deepest partof the understory, territorial,carnal, thorn-at-the-throat, or flutelikein order to make one sobering sound.

  • soul comme une grive,...un polonais,...une bourrique, Lit. as drunk as a thrush,... a Pole, ... a donkey: as drunk as a lord

  • It will be hard for a poet to surpass the poise and penetration of Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush," which is dated as being composed on the last evening of the 19 th century.


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