catbird

How To Use catbird In A Sentence

• Although first cousin to the melodious mockingbird, a catbird's song is seldom musical.
• If he had not been hurt, his team would be sitting in the catbird seat.
• Yesterday he called a catbird to within a few feet of him, by reproducing the notes as uttered and inflected by the female. Michael O'Halloran
• But soon we drew out of the hot sunshine into the old orchard with its paltry display of deformed, green, runt apples, and its magnificent columns and canopies of poison ivy -- that most beautiful and least amiable of our indigenous plants; and then we got among scale-bark hickories, and there was one that had been fluted from top to bottom by a stroke of lightning; and here the little red squirrels were most unusually abundant and indignant; and there was a catbird that miauled exactly like a cat; and there was a spring among the roots of one great tree, and a broken teacup half buried in the sand at the bottom. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories
• Things were fine, except for a catbird trapped inside the netting that covers the blueberry bushes. "My weakness laid bare, as people stop and stare."
• Quite entertaining were some young Catbirds, meowing away in the tangled brush.
• I can hear the songs of migrating birds: phoebes, white-throated sparrows, towhees, catbirds, chipping sparrows.
• It is probably catbirds' habit of flicking dead leaves aside with their bill that exposes catbirds to questing ticks.
• Not only is the Cape flush with cardinals, towhees, mockingbirds, catbirds, goldfinches and woodpeckers, its birds of the shore entice many a visitor here.
• Coming from man who pretended nothing was wrong when the economy was collapsing and who consistently made a fool of himself and of us Americans whenever he went overseas to this "dangerous world"? catbird Bush on Obama: 'This guy has no clue'