skylark
IPA: skˈaɪɫɑrk
noun
- A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
verb
- (dated, originally nautical) To jump about joyfully, frolic; to play around, play tricks.
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Examples of "skylark" in Sentences
- I caught a skylark and a crow.
- Even now amidst the green the skylark sings.
- I've commented it out of the skylark article.
- Courtship behaviour is like that of the skylark.
- Skylarks, fallow deer and hares inhabit the area.
- The song is like a frantic version of that of Skylark.
- The songs of most species are like that of the skylark.
- The skylark often nests in bracken and uses it for cover.
- The skylark finds its way into our art and into our music.
- Shelley called skylark a blithe spirit because of its happy song.
- Many species of bird nest in the bracken also, the skylark especially.
- They showed the Eurasian skylark and the tall crested eurasian skylark.
- Somewhere overhead a skylark, the first I've heard this year, is singing.
- If It isn't a ticket that includes Hillary, I will vote for McCain skylark
- Only a few other North American sparrows have ever been observed to "skylark".
- Bride: Though the skylark neither soars nor singsof a joy whose race is just beginning, I thee wed.
- He proposed simple solutions such as skylark breeding plots, which farmers are already beginning to take up.
- BLITHE X CHEERLESS Meaning: Gay, joyous Usage: Shelley called skylark a blithe spirit because of its happy song.
- All country people know that the skylark is a very shy bird; that its abode is the open fields; that it settles on the ground only; that it seeks safety in the wideness of space; that it avoids enclosures, and is never seen in gardens.
- In some ways the skylark is the sweetest singer we have; only certain of the thrushes rival it, but though the songs of the latter have perhaps even more melody, they are far from being as uninterrupted and well sustained, being rather a succession of broken bursts of music.