Example Sentences

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“They’re probably still driving Buick Skylarks and wearing khaki pants and blue Oxford shirts. They were always frugal, but when you look at the nuts and bolts, they knew their football.”

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2020

The old Skylarks were so sloppy you could mix a daiquiri in the back seat without a blender.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2016

He said it would "vastly help" to promote the appeal, to raise funds for the newly-extended Skylarks Nature Reserve, near Holme Pierrepont, if she wore it.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2014

But they were not the sole occupants of this corner of the Common; other insectivorous species had territories there also—amongst which were Whitethroats, Grasshopper-Warblers, Willow-Warblers,188 Whinchats, Stonechats, Meadow-Pipits, Tree-Pipits, and Skylarks.

From Territory in Bird Life by Howard, H. Eliot

Skylarks rise and fall perpendicularly as they sing; woodlarks hang poised in the air; and titlarks rise and fall in large curves, singing in their descent. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 by Morley, Henry