How to Use parrot in a Sentence

parrot

1 of 2 noun
  • There was a cash market for parrots.
    — Delbert L. Chears, Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2026
  • In both roosts, the parrots ate both colors from day one.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 1 May 2026
  • What’s bright orange with green on top and sounds like a parrot?
    — Christina Montoya Fiedler, Good Housekeeping, 17 Aug. 2022
  • In one, a child sat in the backseat, his pet parrot in a cage.
    — NBC News, 26 Feb. 2022
  • Vibrant green wings falter as the parrot tries—and fails—to fly.
    — Ayla Gard, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
  • The first shot shows Hemsworth in the tub with a parrot perched on his forehead.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2022
  • To thwart bird thieves, the parrots will be protected by a round-the-clock armed guard.
    — Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The deal was as dead as Monty Python’s parrot.
    — Mihir Sharma, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The owners were told to keep the calls short and end them if their parrot became distressed.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 4 May 2023
  • The world’s only flightless parrot species was once thought to be doomed by design.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The world’s only flightless parrot species was once thought to be doomed by design.
    — ABC News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Two dogs and a parrot were rescued from the residence.
    — The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Sun, 28 May 2026
  • Drake Wright’s parrot, his eagle and even his dinosaur were the lucky ones.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2022
  • This robot could be the key to cracking the case, like those parrots who witness crimes.
    — Tom Smyth, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Residents showed up with kids, dogs and, in one case, a bright red parrot in a backpack.
    — Lauren Hepler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2021
  • While many parrots mate for life, fewer than half of bird species do, Kaufman said.
    — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The parrots then vanished, likely back into the pet trade.
    — Rene Ebersole, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2025
  • And seeing Lucky Yates as that parrot cracks me up every time.
    — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The trees are also home to a variety of parrots and other birds.
    — Mailin Sophie Zieser, Architectural Digest, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But after a productive day today, take some time to chill out like this parrot.
    — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 5 July 2022
  • The dogs came with them, but Hrechkina had to leave behind cats and a parrot.
    — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • His father was on the local school board and often walked around town with a parrot on his shoulder.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The parrot responded by barking, a real yip like a small dog.
    — New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Villanueva said there are dogs and cats stored in the freezers, as well as a parrot and an iguana.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2025
  • But a parrot that walks on three limbs defies the expectations.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The parrot is mostly green with yellow coloring on its head.
    — Julie Sharp, CBS News, 17 June 2026
  • The small parrots are transplants from the other side of the world that are thought to be descendants of pet birds.
    — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The first parrot species known to open trash bins was the kea in New Zealand in a park setting.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 22 July 2021
  • Cockatoos are a type of parrot, and like crows, they are known to have a formidable bird brain.
    — Darren Incorvaia, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2022
  • And a parrot makes news by taking flight with a GoPro camera.
    — CNN, 6 Feb. 2022

parrot

2 of 2 verb
  • Some of the students were just parroting what the teacher said.
  • And so the bots parrot it back.
    — John Ruwitch, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
  • That’s a key talking point the Sacklers’ lawyers parrot over and over again.
    — Danny Strong, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 July 2022
  • Nobody ever learns by just having their own views parroted back at them.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Don't be afraid to parrot some of the words on the list of requirements back to them when possible.
    — Vicky Oliver, Fortune, 27 June 2017
  • Some parrot species, in fact, can attain feats equal to those of nonhuman primates.
    — Onur Güntürkün, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Others expect students to parrot their notes word-for-word on the exam.
    — Gerald Bradshaw, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Both these points, while parroted by far-right media, have little basis in fact.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Fans, some of them little kids parroting what their parents were saying, called him vile names.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Fans, some of them little kids parroting what their parents were saying, called him vile names.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Republicans have praised him, parroted him, promised to drain the swamp and pledged to build the wall.
    — Craig Gilbert, USA TODAY, 17 May 2018
  • Yellowtail snapper, parrot fish, a nurse shark, and giant pink conch all thrive in the area’s coral reef.
    — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 7 Apr. 2018
  • But that’s not nearly as catchy a line to parrot, nor as comforting a story to tell ourselves.
    — Declan Leary, National Review, 19 July 2019
  • Teams were trying to parrot the Warriors, with all their sunshine and rainbows.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • And, of course, so does Vladimir Putin, which is why Carlson (and others) parrot it.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Voss tells you to mirror your interlocutor’s body language, and to parrot her last few words as a question.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • More suspect than these series were the critics quick to parrot the networks’ marketing-speak.
    — Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Any employee of any business can get the marketplace wrong and parrot the common wisdom out there.
    — David Doty, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The need to parrot or reference the sound or look of the original stars decreases, and the new cast members make the roles their own.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The question parroted fake news, spread around Brazil, that d’Ávila had splurged on baby products abroad.
    — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 10 July 2019
  • If the Fed is simply parroting the moves of longer-term bonds, stocks have most likely already digested those moves.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Chinese state media has since been working overtime to parrot the Kremlin’s lies about the conflict.
    — Seth D. Kaplan, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
  • Culture gobbled up Britney’s innocence while forcing her to parrot a proxy of it.
    — Raven Smith, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Smelly parrots the size of small cats The kakapo is a majestic creature that can live for 60 to 80 years.
    — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Thus, the analysis didn't measure whether a news channel was parroting a party's talking points.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2017
  • Newsom’s press office wrote in an X post parroting the president’s all-caps posting style.
    — David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The Daily Show is supposed to cut through the media’s dishonesty, not parrot it.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The time Microsoft’s chatbot Tay was trained by Twitter users to parrot racist bilge.
    — Tad Friend, The New Yorker, 7 May 2018
  • So usually what students just end up doing is sort of parroting whatever the professor says for the sake of the grade.
    — Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Outfits galore were present, ranging from hula skirts and coconut bras (worn by women and men) to parrot hats and pirate costumes.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 26 Sep. 2021

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