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

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

From BBC • Jul. 1, 2021

Face masks made of nightingale faeces, used by elite Japanese women for centuries, are one of the stranger beautifying techniques currently resurgent in western salons.

From The Guardian • Nov. 19, 2019

That was mine because I liked that idea that, for once, a nightingale actually did sing in Berkeley Square.

From The Verge • May 30, 2019

Somewhere near, a passing bell was tolling; the dogs all round the neighbourhood were howling; and in our shrubbery, seemingly just outside, a nightingale was singing.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker