murmuration

Example Sentences

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Come to think of it, thoughts are perhaps not unlike a murmuration of starlings, flitting and swooping and morphing with seemingly serendipitous activation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026

Sarah Vickers who lives on Caughall Road said she has lived in Upton almost all of her life and does not recall ever seeing a murmuration so close.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

Who hasn't gazed at a murmuration of thousands of starlings wheeling rhythmically above their roost at dusk, and not wondered at the majesty and mystery of natural systems?

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2023

Essays by Emily Raboteau, Lia Purpura, J. Drew Lanham, Elizabeth Kolbert and others, as well as poems by Mary Oliver and Li-Young Lee, crescendo gradually into a murmuration that captivates the attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

When the tiny figure could be seen, threading wearily through the far trees of the chase, a murmuration went up among the people.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White