How to Use blackbird in a Sentence

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  • There's a blackbird and there's a robin and a great tit and the rest have gone.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 20 May 2021
  • Still, as more of us nest at home, at least some of us see the pesky blackbird in a brighter light.
    — René A. Guzman, ExpressNews.com, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The grackle is the foot-long blackbird with bright yellow eyes.
    — Jim Gilbert, Star Tribune, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The narrator dozes in the front seat of the car and wakes to find a blackbird hopping toward her.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2019
  • One familiar type is the cup nest, commonly built by birds such as robins and blackbirds.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Richard Dolbeer was once the man to call if millions of blackbirds or fruit bats were ravaging your fields.
    — Brendan I. Koerner, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The eagle kept soaring on, and the blackbird eventual gave up on proving its point and flew back home.
    — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 10 July 2019
  • Birds with better vision in low light are among the first to sing, like the large-eyed blackbird here in England.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The seething blackbird sank its wee claws into Janice's back but clearly didn't do much damage.
    — Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 9 July 2019
  • Readers recognized the bird was too small to be a crow or raven and doesn’t hang out in flocks like the ubiquitous blackbird.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2023
  • Outside, two blackbirds landed one after the other on the electric wire.
    — Laila Lalami, latimes.com, 3 July 2019
  • Those can contain hundreds of thousands of birds of several blackbird species.
    — Taylor Piephoff, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • There were blackbirds circling above their own shadows, and beneath them the cows stood around smelling one another's butts.
    — Denis Johnson, Esquire, 26 May 2017
  • The male blackbirds tend to perch atop cattails, while the females spend more time on the ground, foraging and hopping around on lily pads.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • Its song is loud and musical and listeners often compare it to the song of the native blackbird.
    — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • One of the more interesting sections involves blackbirds and a work of Beethoven.
    — Richard Horan, Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Some species, such as blackbirds, cardinals, eagles and ospreys, are thriving.
    — Anders Gyllenhaal, sun-sentinel.com, 29 June 2019
  • Some of the birds included in the drop off include warblers, blackbirds, starlings, robins, and sparrows.
    — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • There is a beautiful moment when the narrator wants Jenny to hear the song of a blackbird.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
  • In the poem, Stevens found 13 different ways of looking at a blackbird.
    — David Quammen, New York Times, 25 July 2023
  • Swallows, gulls and terns, crows, blackbirds and orioles, tyrant flycatchers and parids—all practice mobbing.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 6 July 2018
  • An animal control officer removed the healthy blackbird and returned it to the wild.
    — Washington Post, 9 May 2017
  • So colly birds likely refer to blackbirds, according to the library.
    — National Geographic, 23 Dec. 2017
  • Birds such as sparrows, warblers, finches and blackbirds have been hit particularly hard, the study found.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The blackbird really chortles away.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Elliptical wings–found in crows, blackbirds, ravens, thrushes and sparrows–are optimized for short bursts of high speed.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Bye bye, blackbird The bartender materialized from the shadows and poured a little whiskey in a glass.
    — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2026
  • One version added a courtyard with a limo, the likeness of Alfred Hitchock and blackbirds, as a wink to the building’s moniker.
    — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The blackbird hen is brown, purple finches are distinctly raspberry red and many greyhounds come in colors other than gray.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2021
  • New arrivals included one rusty blackbird, two snowy egrets, and 18 northern shovelers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2018

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