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• This breed of canary is unflighted for the first six months of its life.From the entry unflighted
• I love hearing the song of canary birds.From the entry song
• You're dressing up as a canary? Can't you find something with a little more meat on its bones, like an eagle?From the entry meat on one's bones
• Finally, and most likely, the author was simply an obsessive idiosyncratic paramaniac chirping like a mad canary.2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry paramaniac
• Gabby's kitchen was painted a bright canary yellow, far too pastel, too Easter eggy.2008, Bill Floyd, The Killer’s Wife, page 31. From the entry Easter-eggy
• I stood there looking like the cat that ate the canary. . . .2007 February 25, Georgi Davis, “Jeans weather makes a woman do strange things”, in St Petersburg Times, retrieved 09 Aug 2008. From the entry cat that ate the canary
• The weakest members of society become social barometers or canaries in a coal mine.2006, Anthony Marcus, Where Have All the Homeless Gone?: The Making and Unmaking of a Crisis, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 152. From the entry barometer
• Canary Island cooking combines Spanish with African and Latin American influences.2006 October 24, “Canary Islands: Essential information”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN…. From the entry Canary Island
• "A mussel is a canary in a coal mine," Clemens explained.2003 April, “Saving the St. Joe”, in Field & Stream. From the entry canary in a coal mine
• So now that you've decided to handtame your canary, just where do you start?2003, Brats in Feathers, Keeping Canaries - Page 49. From the entry handtame
• "It's taboo," said Joseph, grinning like the cat that ate the canary.2001 April 25, “Joseph hints at hurt hand”, in cbcsports.ca, Canada, retrieved 09 Aug 2008. From the entry cat that ate the canary
• When put out, she would declare that she'd been thrown 'into a canary fit'.1970, Gervas Huxley, Both Hands, page 25. From the entry canary fit
• Have you seen Trimmer in that frightful frock like a canary lampshade?1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night. From the entry subfusc
• The thousand odd officers and men on parade nearly threw a canary fit.1932, William Guy Carr, Hell's Angels of the Deep, page 136. From the entry canary fit
• A warrant canary is a defense against the gag orders that come with National Security Letters and other secret subpoenas.2014 July 25, Jacob Long, “Exclusive: Private Internet Access talks warrants, canaries, transparency”, in Geeksided, archived from the…. From the entry warrant canary
• Warrant canaries are legal tricks employed by conscientious organisations to get around the fact that certain demands from the US government cannot be disclosed publicly.2014 May 30, Alex Hern, “Encryption software TrueCrypt closes doors in odd circumstances”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry warrant canary
• On the job, she was like a canary in a coal mine: If the subtle energy wasn't in balance, she was the first to notice.2008, Jean Haner, The Wisdom of Your Face: Change Your Life With Chinese Face Reading!, Hay House, published 2008, →ISBN, page 133. From the entry canary in a coal mine
• The second canary in the coal mine — along with the Arctic— is Antarctica, the largest mass of ice on the planet by far.2006, Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, Rodale, →ISBN, page 176. From the entry canary in the coal mine
• Moreover, the residents recalled that the aristocrat's pet canary had become like a personal retainer, waking his master in the morning and sugaring his drink.2002, Frank Tallis, Hidden Minds: A History of the Unconscious. From the entry sugar
• Canary Wharf – the words were grey to her, perhaps because of the colour of the glass or the river there or because it was on the Jubilee line.2022, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, there are more things, Abacus (2023), page 147. From the entry Canary Wharf
• He found Will on the ale bench outside the Devereux Arms nursing a cup of canary wine, tracing patterns in the dust with the toe of his boot.2011, Jane Feather -, All the Queen's Players, page 353. From the entry ale bench
• The lady now appearing wears a dress of black and white stripes—she might be very properly termed a zebra or zebress—and her sash is of pale, canary silk.1927, Esther Singleton, “Dolls of To-day”, in Dolls, New York, N.Y.: Payson & Clarke Ltd, page 136. From the entry zebress

Meaning of canary

1. noun A small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.
2. noun Any of various small birds of different countries, most of which are largely yellow in colour.
3. noun A female singer, soprano, a coloratura singer.

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How do you use canary in a sentence?

Canary is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “This breed of canary is unflighted for the first six months of its life.”

What is a short sentence with canary?

“I love hearing the song of canary birds.”

What does canary mean?

Canary means a small, usually yellow, finch (genus Serinus), a songbird native to the Canary Islands.