How to Use nightingale in a Sentence

nightingale

noun
  • At night, by the light of the evening star, nightingales sing.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Aug. 2025
  • This, then, is a book that provides food for thought as well for nightingales.
    — Simon Barnes, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The nightingale gives its lifeblood to create a perfect red rose.
    — Washington Post, 23 Dec. 2020
  • The little nightingale stared hard, once more, at the narrow heap of her friend.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • When her mother flew tree to tree with purpose and élan, so did the little nightingale.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The little nightingale was still learning how to be a nightingale.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The page squinted up at the nightingale, her dull feathers and stippled breast.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The rendition of the nightingale's song alone makes the film worth seeing.
    — Phil Hall, WIRED, 1 Apr. 1995
  • Philomela, for instance, is raped by Tereus then turned into a nightingale.
    — Jenn Selby, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Are the nightingales really singing with the band, or straining to hear their own song above the noise?
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The page wrapped the nightingale in a piece of cloth and set out once again to the spot in the middle of the woods where two forests met.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • The nightingale sang just before midnight, as if it were perched in the boughs of the dripping tree in the car park.
    — Deborah Levy, The Cut, 1 July 2018
  • The nightingale turned abruptly, flying to a low bramble just inches from the fox’s snout.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • What to my human eye is a place of natural beauty is, for a nightingale, something like a desert.
    — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 16 May 2017
  • When Wilbur was a teenager, his first poem, about a nightingale, was published in a magazine.
    — Husna Haq, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2017
  • Some of the works are descriptive, like a poem denoting the changing of the seasons or the song of a nightingale.
    — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The stamped edges include a similar nightingale motif on a baby blue and yellow backdrop.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • When her mother drank the water that collected in shining balls on the surfaces of certain broad leaves, so too did the little nightingale.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • There are hummingbirds, doves, and nightingales in the neighborhood’s little courtyards and gardens.
    — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
  • And the sensual images these verses bring to mind—nightingales and angels and silks—make this collection ideal for evenings beside the hearth.
    — The Atlantic Culture Desk, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Its pattern is said to be drawn from the soundwave forms of nightingales' birdsong that the designers heard while driving an early prototype of the car.
    — New Atlas, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Every morning, the little nightingale probed the earth for insects and dipped her beak into the sparkling dew that collected on the chicory’s sepals.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • With the estate’s dairy herd and tractors sold, the sound of diesel engines and milking machines quickly gave way to the calls of turtle doves, nightingales, and woodlarks.
    — Christopher Preston, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
  • As a teenager, his poem about a nightingale was published in John Martin's Magazine.
    — Hillel Italie, Sun-Sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • The landowners brought in Tamworth pigs and rare species like nightingales and purple emperor butterflies began to appear.
    — Nina Sovich, WSJ, 20 Sep. 2018
  • But sometimes, the doubling is intriguing; the rat girl, Alysia Chang, returns as the Chinese nightingale.
    — Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2017
  • That seemed as incongruous a combination as a nightingale harmonizing with an alley cat.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The little nightingale loved her mother’s voice too, its fizzy trajectory striking the filaments of her downiest feathers.
    — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
  • In Germany, the nightingale, that most melodious nocturnal wonder, was traded by the quart like a commodity.
    — Adrian Higgins, sacbee, 8 June 2018
  • For example, an uguisu (a nightingale, or bush warbler) sings in spring, asagao (morning glories) bloom in summer, a full moon is most beautiful in autumn, and the wind turns cold in winter.
    — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 9 Apr. 2026

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