SPARROW in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for SPARROW, such as:

1. It was the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen.
2. The sparrows chirp outside the window every morning.
3. Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement.
4. He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.
5. It was winter and the sparrows were pecking at whatever they could find.

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 Meanings and Examples of SPARROW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sparrow
 n.  any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  When that was eaten, the sparrow asked him whether he had had enough now.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
2  There,' cried the sparrow, 'thou cruel villain, thou hast killed my friend the dog.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
3  The carter was mad with fury; and without looking about him, or caring what he was about, struck again at the sparrow; but killed his third horse as he done the other two.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
4  And the wife struck; but she missed her aim, and hit her husband on the head so that he fell down dead, and the sparrow flew quietly home to her nest.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE DOG AND THE SPARROW
5  I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 112. The Departure.
6  She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
7  Charley took it in both his own with a tenderness beyond description, unless it was like that of a child holding a captured sparrow.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure
8  The only living thing that entered now was a sparrow; and seeing no movements to cause alarm, he hopped boldly round the room, endeavoured to go out by the window, and fluttered among the pot-flowers.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
9  Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the sparrow; the child is called the gamin.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—PARVULUS
10  It was the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV—GAVROCHE OUTSIDE
11  He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
12  Honey was a shrill- voiced sparrow and Scarlett a gleaming hummingbird.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  She came out of her hysteria like a sparrow shaking off rain-drops.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
14  The water stood in my eyes to hear this avowal of his dependence; just as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  I found that the sparrow uttered none but harsh notes, whilst those of the blackbird and thrush were sweet and enticing.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  A sparrow fluttering about the church is an antagonist which the most profound theologian in Europe is wholly unable to overcome.
2  Two sparrows on one ear of corn make an ill agreement.
3  It was winter and the sparrows were pecking at whatever they could find.
4  The sparrows chirp outside the window every morning.