How To Use Pewee In A Sentence
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A wolf, which he was anxious to put out of the way, he being a sad snarler, was the first animal which the young man Chappewee placed on the infant earth; but the weight of the creature was so great, that it began to sink upon one side, and was in danger of turning over.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)
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The pewee is the first bird to pipe up in the morning; and, during the early summer he preludes his matutinal ejaculation of
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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Many groundcovers can also be planted, including ice plant, gazania and capeweed.
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Carol: Presumably important enough to make us miss Cross Fire with Pat Buchanan and Pewee Herman.
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I have a feeling the pewee annoyed the film crew, who tried to get as much footage without its distracting call as they could.
Archive 2007-11-01
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Pewees and Alder Flycatchers do not join flocks but set up territories in patches of forest that they defend against members of their own species.
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Over 350 species of birds have been recorded in Worcester Country, including pelicans and pewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, herons, harriers, and eagles.
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Over 350 species of birds have been recorded in Worcester Country, including pelicans and pewees, kingbirds and cuckoos, herons, harriers, and eagles.
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The only sounds he utters are an occasional clicking cherup, and now and then, with a plaintive cadence, he seems to speak the word _pewee_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858
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Riley called him "milksop," and "sap-head"; words which seemed to the dull intellect of King Pewee exceedingly witty.
The Hoosier School-boy
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There were some slight flurries of snow during the days that I worked there; but for the most part when I came out on to the railroad, on my way home, its yellow sand heap stretched away gleaming in the hazy atmosphere, and the rails shone in the spring sun, and I heard the lark and pewee and other birds already come to commence another year with us.
Walden
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Since Sept. 5, the pewee, which is native to Cuba and the Bahamas, has been seen repeatedly for several days.
Marconews.com Stories
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You go about bullying little boys, and calling yourself King Pewee, but you can't do a sum in long division, nor in short subtraction, for that matter, and you let fellows like Riley make
The Hoosier School-boy
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The wood pewee, like its relative, the phoebe, feeds largely on the family of flies to which the house fly belongs.
Bird Day; How to prepare for it
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He said the call I used as a signal-the call you taught me-was a common wood pewee.
NAKED EMPIRE
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Thoreau is refreshed by hearing the whip-poor-will, brown-thrasher, veery, wood-pewee, chewink, and other birds at the beginning of May.
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A pair of pewees darted between twigs above the path, calling occasionally, and a hummingbird or two whizzed overhead.
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We had a pewee along the creek behind our house for most of this past summer, and its entertaining song is highly recognizable to me now.
Archive 2007-11-01
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On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds.
Walden
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On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds.
Walden
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Since we've identified plenty of phoebes in the field, I'm inclined to take this bird as a pewee.
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Thought I heard a western wood pewee last week, but it was just a starling imitating the pewee song.
Grouse Diary Entry
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Have no idea why a starling would imitate a pewee.
Grouse Diary Entry
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On the island itself, titmice, chickadees, pewees, and at least one Red-bellied Woodpecker thrived.
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Most perching birds stop singing regularly in late summer, but male wood-pewees keep up their chanting until the autumn migration.
