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How to use hummingbird in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Hummingbird means any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover. Example: “We got a good shot of the hummingbirds mating.”

More sentences with hummingbird

  • We got a good shot of the hummingbirds mating.From the entry shot
  • Lying in wait, camera at the ready, I managed to catch a hummingbird on video today, after being too slow getting my camera out yesterday.From the entry catch
  • The hummingbird hovered by the plant.From the entry hover
  • The tenuirostral birds included the hummingbirds.From the entry tenuirostral
  • Sliding glass windows opened so the hummingbirds could flit through, siphoning nectar from the cut ginger lilies.2009, Monique Roffey, The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, page 21. From the entry ginger lily
  • The Sargents' status as hummingbird gurus is unrivaled and well deserved.2007, Wonderful West Virginia, volume 71, page 5. From the entry hummer
  • Hummingbirds often accompanied depictions of Inca women on qeros, the brilliantly colored wooden cups.2004, Paul Richard Steele, Handbook of Inca Mythology, page 107. From the entry qero
  • It's a charm of hummingbirds, a rare sight.2020, Janine Urbaniak Reid, The Opposite of Certainty: Fear, Faith, and Life in Between, Thomas Nelson, page 263. From the entry charm
  • Until the passage—cat's paw?—backwash?—up the chimney?—whump-whump, rotorblades of a distant hummingbird, let's say: then all at once, old cobweb upwhipped, the words vanish.2012 October 3, Richard Kenney, The One-Strand River: Poems, 1994-2007, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 155. From the entry readable
  • There were hushed moments of complete beauty when the melody moved out and hung above the chanterelle like a hummingbird poised over a flower.2003, Paul Bowles, edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrmann, Paul Bowles on Music, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 123. From the entry chanterelle
  • In most hummingbirds, only the male is iridescent, but in the South American tourmaline sun-angel, some females are as well, while others are plain-coloured.1986, BBC Wildlife, volumes 4-5, page 126. From the entry sun-angel
  • There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223. From the entry cinnabar

Meaning of hummingbird

  1. noun Any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.

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Questions about hummingbird in a sentence

How do you use hummingbird in a sentence?
Hummingbird is used as a noun. For example: “We got a good shot of the hummingbirds mating.”
What is a short sentence with hummingbird?
“The hummingbird hovered by the plant.”
What does hummingbird mean?
Hummingbird means any of various small American birds in the family Trochilidae that have the ability to hover.

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