nightingale

Example Sentences

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Just as the familiar tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gradually builds speed “accelerando,” as the compositional notation is known, some birdsong does too, like that of the nightingale.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

I wonder if even Janet Malcolm might have given a pass to this devoted biographer and his own bow to a nightingale.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

It was on Hampstead Heath that John Keats pondered the beauty of nature, nightingale song and mortality.

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2021

Animals have always come and gone, medieval wolves, later Keats’ nightingale, later still a rare wallaby, spotted bounding through the trees in spring 2019.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2020

If I found a nest of nightingale eggs or chicks, I was not to disturb it or the mother would abandon her roost and the chicks would die.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez