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• A charm of finches flew overhead, singing into the vivid afternoon sky.2018, Holly Ringland, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. From the entry charm
• The finching yards of the country estates were important meeting points of the elite.2004, The Dutch Historical-Geographical Journal, magazine issue 22…. From the entry finching
• The molecular work also makes a compelling case that Darwin's finches were originally grassquits.1999, Peter R. Grant, Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches, page xv. From the entry grassquit
• Some female zebra finches reared with Bengalese finches for 40 days responded to male zebra finches.1981, D. M. Broom, Biology of Behaviour: Mechanisms, Functions and Applications, page 214. From the entry Bengalese finch
• Quantitative evidence comes, among others, from three studies of adolescent male zebra finches misimprinted on Bengalese finches.1981, Klaus Immelmann, Stephen J. Suomi, “14: Sensitive phases in Development”, in Klaus Immelmann, George W. Barlow, Lewis Petrinovich…. From the entry Bengalese finch
• The most widespread of Japan's finches, however, is the olive-and-yellow Oriental Greenfinch, which in winter can be seen in large flocks.2022 January 18, Mark Brazil, Japan: The Natural History of an Asian Archipelago, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry Oriental greenfinch
• The smallest I’ve worked with are finch eggs, which are not even the size of my little-finger nail.2018 March 18, John Berger, quoting Eileen Tokita, “Aloha: On the Scene with John Berger”, in Honolulu Star-Advertiser, 137th year, number…. From the entry little-finger nail
• But the blue-capped cordon bleu, a small finch found in Africa, really knows how to win over a mate.2015 November 19, Ian Sample, “The birdie dance: fancy footwork of courting birds revealed”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry cordon bleu
• I sat there on a bench in dappled shade, beside an aviary full of brightly feathered finches and siskins fluttering about.2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 2. From the entry siskin
• He finds that the average song linearity of the munia is around 0.8 while the Bengalese finch song has a value of around 0.4.2010, Graham R. S. Ritchie, Simon Kirby, “20: A Possible Role for Selective Masking in the Evolution of Complex, Learned Communication…. From the entry munia
• The typical slaty finch of Santa Isabel and two species of honey creepers were by far the commonest, followed by a small, slaty tapacolo.1916, Bulletin of the Pan American Union - Volume 42, page 83. From the entry tapacolo
• They looked up to see, sitting a tight knot attempting to conceal themselves on a branch thick with leaves and blossoms, the charm of purple finches.2017, Peggy A. Wheeler, The Splendid and Extraordinary Life of Beautimus Potamus, Dragon Moon Press. From the entry charm
• I'm not trying to defend house finches—I'm wooed by goldies' looks like every other feeder—and I certainly think that house finches eat far more seed than they deserve.2014, Bill Adler, Outwitting Squirrels, page 34. From the entry goldie
• The current guess is that it was the wonderfully named dull-coloured grassquit, because this is the bird with the closest genetic code to the Galapagos finches.2012, Jonnie Hughes, On the Origin of Tepees: Why Some Ideas Spread While Others Go Extinct, unnumbered page. From the entry grassquit
• The rate of evolutionary change in a species' wing or leg or beak (remember Darwin's finches mentioned in Chapter 1?) is assessed in degree-of-physical-change units called darwins.2003, Donald Mitchell, The 2,000 Percent Solution, page 243. From the entry darwin

Meaning of finch

1. noun Any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).
2. noun Any bird of the family Fringillidae, seed-eating passerine birds, native chiefly to the Northern Hemisphere and usually having a conical beak.
3. noun Any bird of other families of similar appearance to members of family Fringillidae.

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How do you use finch in a sentence?

Finch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “"All these finches seem to get themselves up in the same way nowadays, till I can't tell one sort of tart from another.”

What is a short sentence with finch?

“A charm of finches flew overhead, singing into the vivid afternoon sky.”

What does finch mean?

Finch means any Eurasian goldfinch (of species Carduelis carduelis, syn. Fringilla carduelis).