songbird
IPA: sˈɔŋbɝd
noun
- A bird having a melodious song or call.
- Any bird in the passerine suborder Passeri, which are distinguished by a more sophisticated vocal apparatus.
- (idiomatic, by extension) An individual, especially a woman, with a melodious voice.
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Examples of "songbird" in Sentences
- Here is the result of typing "songbird" in the konsole:
- A young girl who sang a solo for them was a "songbird," he said.
- The twenty-six year old songbird is currently at odds with her husband’s parents.
- When I'd finished this book, I felt like a cage from which the songbird is being removed.
- Last week I used a program called songbird and it worked fine first time with my two ipods.
- Perhaps this would help to explain why his fellow Viet Nam prisoners nicknamed him "songbird"?
- What about McCain's POW experience I read that he was a "songbird" to the viet-cong for special treatment.
- Perhaps you don't understand what prompts his temper tantrums, or why his excuse for every mistake relates to his "songbird" days as a prisoner of war.
- I'm just going to have to put all of it in one big file and use 'songbird' and 'wolf' and every other associated term as part of a meta tag or something.
- The far right has merciless accused John McCain of being a Manchurian Candidate, brainwashed by his captors and of having been a "songbird" who sold out his fellow prisoners.
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