birdcage
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Mindy is bracingly funny but also masculine enough to intimidate Jerry, the delicate peacock in this gilded birdcage.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
At one point, a dancer contorts herself as she carries Particle, tucked in a birdcage, across a room.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024
In a rather tragic detail that feels straight out of a fable, Tiny Pinocchio was kept in a decorative metal birdcage when people visited the house to prevent him from accidentally getting squished.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2023
The last step was layering, like distributing smaller items like old trophies, board games or magazines, and putting a birdcage — a perfect metaphor — in a central location.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2022
Jemmy swung the birdcage, knocking the candle flying.
From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman
"Who else but Bunny would collect beautiful Georgian birdcages?" said Guy Schooling, the chairman of Sworders.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
When birds disappear, people open their birdcages and release their confused pets up to the sky.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019
Vasquez, 54, had become known as the Birdman of East Village for his daily walks around downtown and Balboa Park with a tower of three birdcages strapped to his back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2019
There are fin-de-siècle birdcages where car and shaft are unenclosed but for ornate wrought-iron gates and the ride brings a pleasant rush of vertigo.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2017
Especially since they were sitting in front of five birdcages, which, Genie realized, if you looked past the entwining vines and leaves, were arranged in a semicircle.
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
